Patent attributes
A process is provided for ignition control in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, using an ignition coil which has a connected primary winding and a secondary winding which is connected to a spark plug, and an ignition control unit which is used to control circuit logic connecting the primary winding by means of a line. According to the process, at the beginning of a working cycle, a switching signal is transmitted from the ignition control unit to the circuit logic, marking the beginning of the working cycle, and the temporal length of the signal is used as a reference length (idle time) for other digital information transmitted to the circuit logic by the ignition control unit.