Engine operation detection system
AssigneeBriggs & Stratton Corporation
InventorsJason Raasch, Robert Koenen, Christopher Meyers, Timothy Ogden, Kevin Bernier
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Abstract
An engine operation detection system includes an engine including a spark plug and a spark plug wire, and an engine run sensor including a signal wire including an antenna, the antenna configured to receive a spark plug signal from the spark plug wire, a data acquisition output wire outputting an engine on/off condition signal, a power supply providing power to the engine run sensing circuit, and an engine run sensing circuit configured to transform the spark plug signal into the engine on/off condition signal output via the data acquisition output wire.
Claims20
An engine operation detection system comprising:
- an engine including a spark plug and a spark plug wire;
- an engine run sensor comprising:
- a signal wire including an antenna, the antenna configured to receive a spark plug signal from the spark plug wire;
- a data acquisition output wire outputting an engine on/off condition signal;
- a power supply providing power to an engine run sensing circuit;
- wherein the engine run sensing circuit is configured to transform the spark plug signal into the engine on/off condition signal output via the data acquisition output wire.
An engine run sensor comprising:
- a signal wire including an antenna, the antenna configured to receive a spark plug signal from a spark plug wire on an engine;
- a data acquisition output wire outputting an engine on/off condition signal;
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- a power supply providing power to an engine run sensing circuit;
- wherein the engine run sensing circuit is configured to transform the spark plug signal into the engine on/off condition signal output via the data acquisition output wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.