Battery ignition system

Claim 1

IN A BATTERY IGNITION SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES INCLUDING AN IGNITION COIL HAVING A PRIMARY AND A SECONDARY WINDING, A BATTERY CONNECTED TO SAID PRIMARY WINDING, A TRANSISTOR, HAVING ITS EMITTER-COLLECTOR PATH BETWEEN ONE TERMINAL OF SAID BATTERY AND SAID PRIMARY WINDING, AND AN INTERRUPTER CONNECTED BETWEEN THE BASE OF SAID TRANSISTOR AND OTHER TERMINAL OF SAID BATTERY AND CHANGING BETWEEN CONDUCTIVE AND NONCONDUCTIVE POSITIONS FOR PERIODICALLY CHANGING SAID TRANSISTOR BETWEEN CONDUCTIVE AND NONCONDUCTIVE CONDITIONS INCLUDING, IN COMBINATION, INDUCTANCE MEANS AND RECTIFIER MEANS CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER AS A SERIES-COMBINATION, SAID SERIES-COMBINATION BEING CONNECTED IN PARALLEL WITH THE EMITTER-COLLECTOR PATH OF SAID TRANSISTOR, SAID RECTIFIER MEANS BEING ARRANGED IN SAID SERIES-COMBINATION IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THE DIRECTION OF ITS CONDUCTIVITY PERMITS, WHEN THE INTERRUPTER IS IN CONDUCTIVE POSITION, A CURRENT TO FLOW THROUGH SAID SERIES-COMBINATION IN PARALLEL WITH THE EMITTER-BASE CURRENT THROUGH SAID TRANSISTOR, AND PERMITS, WHEN SAID INTERRUPTER IS IN NONCONDUCTIVE POSITION, A CURRENT TO FLOW THROUGH SAID SERIES-COMBINATION AND AGAINST THE NORMAL CURRENT DIRECTION THROUGH SAID EMITTER-BASE PATH OF SAID TRANSISTOR, WHEREBY THE CHANGE OF SAID TRANSISTOR FROM CONDUCTIVE CONDITION TO NONCONDUCTIVE CONDITION IS ACCELERATED.