Method and apparatus for measuring knocking in internal combustion engines
First Claim
1. Apparatus for measuring knocking in an internal combustion engine, comprising:
- a high temperature, acceleration compensated pressure transducer positioned within the cylinder of said engine and providing an output signal indicative of the combustion signal together with the knocking signal, said pressure transducer comprising two substantially identical deflecting regions, one of said deflecting regions being exposed to pressure in said cylinder while said second deflecting regions being sealed from said pressure, each of said deflecting regions generating a signal that is combined to represent said output signal;
a tunable band-pass filter for filtering said output signal to provide a filtered signal indicative of only said knocking signal, said filter having a range between 500-5000 Hz centered about a frequency dependent upon the revolutions per minute (RPM) of said engine;
means for processing said filtered signal and said output signal to provide a measurement of the extent of said knocking.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for measuring knocking in internal combustion engines employs a high temperature transducer, which transducer is mounted within a cylinder. The output of the transducer is solely related to pressure. The output signal from the transducer is directed to the input of a high frequency amplifier associated with a band pass filter. In this manner the combustion signal can be filtered out and one provides a signal which is only indicative of the knocking signal and of the knocking frequencies. This signal can be analyzed simply and effectively by the use of a processor such as a multimeter or a microprocessor. In a similar manner the processor can compare the combustion and knocking signal without the band pass filtering with the knocking signal with the combustion signal filtered out.
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14 Claims
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1. Apparatus for measuring knocking in an internal combustion engine, comprising:
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a high temperature, acceleration compensated pressure transducer positioned within the cylinder of said engine and providing an output signal indicative of the combustion signal together with the knocking signal, said pressure transducer comprising two substantially identical deflecting regions, one of said deflecting regions being exposed to pressure in said cylinder while said second deflecting regions being sealed from said pressure, each of said deflecting regions generating a signal that is combined to represent said output signal; a tunable band-pass filter for filtering said output signal to provide a filtered signal indicative of only said knocking signal, said filter having a range between 500-5000 Hz centered about a frequency dependent upon the revolutions per minute (RPM) of said engine; means for processing said filtered signal and said output signal to provide a measurement of the extent of said knocking. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for measuring knocking in an internal combustion engine comprising the steps of:
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placing a pressure transducer in the cylinder of said engine to provide an output signal indicative of cylinder pressure, said pressure transducer comprising two substantially identical deflecting regions, one of said deflecting regions being exposed to pressure in said cylinder while said second deflecting regions being sealed from said pressure, each of said deflecting regions generating a signal that is combined to produce said output signal, filtering said transducer output signal to provide a filtered signal indicative only of knocking, said filtering performed by a tunable bandpass filter centered about a frequency based on a number of revolutions per minute of said engine, and processing said filtered signal and said output signal to provide a measurement of said knocking. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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