Ignition system
AssigneeVolvo Truck Corporation
InventorsRafig Babayev, Joop Somhorst
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Abstract
An ignition system including an injection member configured to deliver fuel to an ignition zone within a combustion chamber, an ignition element configured to ignite fuel within the ignition zone, and a control unit configured to operate the injection member and the ignition element in a first ignition phase including ignition of a first delivery of fuel provided to the combustion chamber by the injection member and a second ignition phase including ignition of a second delivery of fuel provided to the combustion chamber by the injection member.
Claims15
An ignition system configured for use on a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a power unit including one or more combustion chamber, the ignition system comprising:
- an injection member configured to deliver fuel to an ignition zone within the combustion chamber;
- an ignition element configured to ignite fuel within the ignition zone;
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- a control unit configured to operate the injection member and the ignition element in a first ignition phase including ignition of a first delivery of fuel provided to the combustion chamber by the injection member and a second ignition phase including ignition of a second delivery of fuel provided to the combustion chamber by the injection member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.