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US 4,357,825 AGranted
Knock detecting apparatus for internal combustion engines
AssigneeNippon Soken, Inc.
InventorsHiroaki Yamaguchi, Tadashi Hattori, Yoshinori Ootsuka
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Abstract
A knock detecting apparatus for internal combustion engines includes a housing of a predetermined shape containing therein magnetic circuit means a part of which is formed by vibrating plate means made of a magnetic material and magnetic flux sensing means for sensing a change in the magnetic reluctance of the magnetic circuit means caused by the vibration of the vibrating plate means in resonance with a knocking frequency.
Claims7
A knock detecting apparatus for internal combustion engines comprising:
- housing means made of a magnetic material and formed into substantially a cylindrical shape;
- magnetic path means including a central magnetic path portion disposed substantially centrally in said housing means to extend in the longitudinal direction thereof, a plurality of vibrating reeds made of a magnetic material and attached to and extending radially outward from said central portion, and a diametrical magnetic path portion disposed to extend from said central magnetic path portion in the diametrical direction of said housing means at a predetermined distance from said vibrating means, said side peripheral wall of said housing means forming an outer peripheral magnetic path portion disposed to extend from an outer peripheral side of said diametrical magnetic path portion toward ends of said reeds opposite said central portion so as to form gaps therebetween;
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- magnetic flux sensing means disposed in said housing means to sense a change in the magnetic flux passing through said magnetic path means.
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A knock detecting apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprising:
- a cylindrical housing made of a magnetic material to be mounted on an engine, said housing having a bottom and a shoulder portion extending radially in said housing;
- a magnetic bar fixed within and to said housing in such a manner that said bar extends longitudinally from said bottom of said housing toward the other end of said housing;
- a ring-shaped permanent magnet disposed in said housing annularly about said magnetic bar;
- a plurality of vibrating reeds made of a magnetic material, each of said reeds having a different resonant frequency, an end of each of said reeds being fixed to one end of said magnetic bar to extend radially therefrom and another end of each of said reeds forming a gap relative to said shoulder portion of said housing in a longitudinal direction;
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- a coil wound about said magnetic bar for detecting a change in the magnetic flux passing through said magnetic bar.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.