Patent Application
20200013547
The present invention relates to an ignition coil which is attached, for example, to an internal combustion engine, and supplies a high voltage to an ignition plug so as to generate a spark electrical discharge.
In an ignition coil which is used for an internal combustion engine, for example, as indicated in Patent Document 1, a primary coil and a secondary coil are wound around an outer circumference of a center iron core, and a side iron core is arranged at an outer side (one side) of the primary coil and the secondary coil, whereby a closed magnetic passage is configured. These components are housed in an insulating case which is made of a resin, and moreover, an insulating material, such as an epoxy resin, is filled in space in the insulating case, whereby an insulation capability is maintained. Moreover, in order to increase an output capability, there is an ignition coil in which a large magnet is adopted and a large magnetic bias is applied to a center iron core. However, when a large magnet is inserted, an inserting portion (a holding portion) is upsized, so that in the ignition coil which is described in Patent Document 1, a magnet is inserted in a side iron core in a state where the magnet is inclined from an axis direction of the side iron core, whereby it is inhibited that the ignition coil is upsized.
In recent years, in order to improve a fuel efficiency of an internal combustion engine, it is required that a high output capability is realized for an ignition coil, and moreover, it is also required that the ignition coil has a small size while various auxiliary machines are attached at a circumference of the ignition coil. In order to inhibit that an ignition coil is upsized, when a large magnet is inserted between side iron cores, there is a fear in which a position deviation of the side iron cores is caused (a magnet inserting portion is rotated) when the side iron cores are assembled to a center iron core, and a capability variation (a capability worsening) is caused.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the invention is to obtain an ignition coil in which an assembly variation (a capability variation or a capability worsening, which is caused by an assembly variation) is not caused even when a large magnet is inclined so as to be arranged between the side iron cores.
An ignition coil of the present invention includes a center iron core around which a primary coil and a secondary coil, which is coaxially provided at a circumference of the primary coil, are wound; and side iron cores which surround a part of a circumference of the secondary coil so as to be arranged, and form a closed magnetic passage with the center iron core; in a state where the side iron cores are composed of a first side iron core and a second side iron core, in which portions, which are faced to a portion in an axis direction of the center iron core in a state where the primary coil and the secondary coil are sandwiched, are separated in an oblique direction with respect to an axis direction of the side iron cores, and a magnet is provided at a magnet holding portion which is formed between the first side iron core and the second side iron core, which are separated; wherein facing portions, which are provided at end portions of separated surfaces of the first side iron core and at end portions of separated surfaces of the second side iron core, in a state where the magnet holding portion is formed by using the first side iron core and the second side iron core, and are faced at a surface which is vertical with respect to an axis direction of the side iron cores, and intervening components, which are provided at the facing portions and are configured by using a non-magnetic material, are included; and the intervening components have a thickness which is less than a distance between the separated surfaces of the first side iron core and the separated surfaces of the second side iron core.
According to an ignition coil of the present invention, surfaces, which are vertical in an axis direction, are provided at separated portions of side iron cores, whereby a rotational position deviation of the side iron cores, which is caused when the ignition coil is assembled, can be inhibited. Moreover, intervening components, which are configured by using a non-magnetic material, are provided at vertical portions of the side iron cores, whereby it can be also prevented that when the ignition coil is assembled, the side iron cores are adsorbed to each other by a magnetic force which is caused by a magnet which is arranged at a magnet holding portion which is formed at the separated portions of the side iron cores, and an assembly variation (a variation of a length of a gap) of the side iron cores can be inhibited.
Hereinafter, embodiments of an ignition coil of the present invention will be explained in reference to the drawings.
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In the ignition coil which is configured as described above, the integrated circuit (IC) 13 controls an energization operation and an interruption operation of a primary electric current, which is passed through the primary coil 1, in accordance with a driving signal which is transmitted from an electronic control unit which is not illustrated. When a primary electric current, which is passed through the primary coil 1 at a predefined ignition timing of an internal combustion engine, is interrupted in accordance with the driving signal, a reverse electromotive force is generated at the primary coil 1, and a high voltage is generated at the secondary coil 2. Moreover, the high voltage, which is generated, is applied to an ignition plug, which is not illustrated, via a high-voltage terminal 6 which is arranged at a high voltage side.
As described above, in the ignition coil according to Embodiment 1, facing portions, which are faced at the separated surfaces 7a and 7b and the separated surfaces 8a and 8b, which are vertical in an axis direction (a “L” direction) of the side iron cores, are provided at the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8, and the intervening components 11 (a part of the elastomers 10 in Embodiment 1), which are configured by using a non-magnetic material, are arranged between the facing portions, whereby it can be inhibited that positions of the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8, which compose the side iron cores, are deviated (the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8 are rotated) when the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8, which are formed as the side iron cores, are assembled to the center iron core 3.
Moreover, a thickness of the intervening components 11, which are configured by using a non-magnetic material, is greater than or equal to 50% of a distance between the side iron cores at the facing portions which are composed of the separated surfaces 7a and 7b of the first side iron core 7 and the separated surfaces 8a and 8b of the second side iron core 8, whereby when the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8 are assembled to the center iron core 3, and when the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8, which compose the side iron cores, are rotated, a distance, which is caused by a rotation of the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8, between the side iron cores and the center iron core 3, is less than a distance (which is equal to a thickness of the intervening components 11) between the side iron cores, so that an adsorption force, which is acted to a gap portion which is caused among the first side iron core 7, the second side iron core 8, and the center iron core 3, is greater than an adsorption force, of the magnet holding portion, which is acted, in accordance with a magnetic force which is caused by the magnet 9, between the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8.
Therefore, when an external force, which is operated when the ignition coil is assembled, is removed, the gap, which is caused among the first side iron core 7, the second side iron core 8, and the center iron core 3, is naturally closed, and the ignition coil is set at a normal assembly state. Thereby, a variation (a deviation), which is caused when the ignition coil is assembled, can be inhibited (if a gap is caused among the first side iron core 7, the second side iron core 8, and the center iron core 3 when the ignition coil is assembled, a capability of the ignition coil is lowered).
Moreover, the ignition coil has a configuration in which the intervening components 11 are not inserted to an overall portion between the vertical separated surfaces, by which the facing portions are formed, and a length of the gap can be defined by using the magnet 9, of which component accuracy is high, without using the intervening components 11 which are configured by using a non-magnetic material, of which component accuracy is low, so that a capability variation can be inhibited (when an overall portion is formed as the intervening components 11 which are configured by using a non-magnetic material, the intervening components 11 are contacted to the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8 before the magnet 9 is contacted to the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8 in accordance with a variation of a component, and there is a possibility in which the gap remains among the first side iron core 7, the second side iron core 8, and the magnet 9).
Moreover, a distance between the separated surfaces 7a and 7b and the separated surfaces 8a and 8b, which are vertical, is greater than a thickness of the magnet 9, whereby a magnetic force, which is generated from the magnet 9, is effectively passed through in the center iron core 3, so that the capability of the ignition coil can be improved (when a distance between the separated surfaces 7a and 7b and the separated surfaces 8a and 8b, which are vertical, is small, a magnetic flux of the magnet 9 is not passed through the center iron core 3, and is passed through space between the vertical separated surfaces, and a shortcut is performed. When a magnetic force is not passed through the center iron core 3, the capability of the ignition coil is lowered).
Moreover, the elastomers 10, which are used for performing shock absorption of an iron core stress, are used as the intervening components 11 which are configured by using a non-magnetic material, whereby the ignition coil can be configured without increasing the number of the components, and without increasing an assembly man-hour.
In addition, in the ignition coil according to Embodiment 1, although the facing portions, which are formed by using the separated surfaces 7a and 7b and the separated surfaces 8a and 8b in a state where the separated surfaces are vertical, install the intervening components 11 (a part of the elastomers 10) at only one side of the side iron cores, it is suitable that the intervening components 11 (a part of the elastomers 10) are installed at only the side iron core at the other side (at an opposite side), or are installed at both of the side iron cores. Moreover, it is suitable that the intervening components 11 are configured by using an iron core cover which covers the side iron cores.
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The ignition coil according to Embodiment 2 has a configuration in which the intervening component 11 is inserted to only a high voltage side, so that an assembly variation (which is caused in accordance with a rotation of the side iron cores) can be prevented by using a similar way according to Embodiment 1.
Moreover, in the ignition coil according to Embodiment 2, the vertical separated surfaces are abolished in reference to coil sides (a primary coil 1 aide and a secondary coil 2 side) of the side iron cores (the first side iron core 7 and the second side iron core 8), and the ignition coil is configured in such a way that a abolished portion is arranged at a high voltage side (a high-voltage terminal 6 side) of the ignition coil, so that a distance between the terminal 6, which is set at a high voltage when the ignition coil is operated, and the side iron cores, at which an electric potential is low, can be secured (a distance can be secured and the ignition coil is configured by using an insulating resin 14), so that an upsizing, which is not required, of the ignition coil can be avoided, and a reliability of the ignition coil can be secured.
In the scope of the present invention, it is possible that each of the embodiments is freely combined, or each of the embodiments is suitably modified or omitted.
“1” is a primary coil; “2,” a secondary coil; “3,” a center iron core; “7,” a first side iron core; “8,” a second side iron core; “9” a magnet; “10,” elastomers; “11,” intervening components; “12,” a case; “14,” an insulating resin; “7a, 7b, 8a, and 8b,” separated surfaces.
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/JP2017/013291 | 3/30/2017 | WO | 00 |
