Analysis of Ignition Energy Efficiency for Automotive Ignition Coils

Author

Chen Ning ; Zhang Yun

Author_Institution

Inst. of Mechatron. Control Eng., Zhejiang Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

28-31 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The performance of ignition coils is an important and complicated consideration of automotive power system. How to analyze the effect of technological parameters on the ignition energy with the help of ignition coils performance simulation model is proposed in this paper. Based on electric circuit analysis and magnetic circuit analysis, the model is built to calculate ignition current, spark time and ignition energy, and predict the tendency of ignition energy with the variations of the technological parameters such as coil turns, wire diameter and the length of iron core. Experiments show that the relative errors of simulation results are less than 5%, which indicates the validity and rationality of the method.

Keywords

automobiles; coils; electric ignition; energy conservation; automotive ignition coils; automotive power system; electric circuit analysis; ignition current; ignition energy efficiency; magnetic circuit analysis; spark time; Automotive engineering; Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Coils; Energy efficiency; Ignition; Magnetic analysis; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Power system simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2010 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4812-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4813-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2010.5449071

Filename

5449071