GLOW PLUG WITH COMBUSTION PRESSURE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:EP2679903B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-10

    申请号:EP12748904.5

    申请日:2012-02-07

    IPC分类号: F23Q7/00 F02P19/00

    摘要: Disclosed is the structure of a glow plug with a combustion pressure sensor which includes a heater unit which is reduced in diameter stepwise. In the structure, the area of a member connecting the heater unit to a housing is made sufficiently large, so that the detection accuracy of the pressure sensor is improved. The structure can further improve the detection accuracy of the pressure sensor. The glow plug 100 includes a substantially cylindrical housing extending in an axial direction; a rod-shaped heater unit that has a front end protruding from the front end of the housing and is movable in the axial direction; a connecting member that connects the heater unit to the housing within the housing and allows the heater unit to move in the axial direction; and a pressure sensor that detects pressure received by the heater unit. The heater unit has a large-diameter portion formed at the rear end thereof and a small-diameter portion formed frontward of the large-diameter portion and having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the large-diameter portion. The connecting member connects the small-diameter portion of the heater unit to the housing within the housing.

    SPARK PLUG
    62.
    发明公开
    SPARK PLUG 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3382830A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-03

    申请号:EP18162849.6

    申请日:2018-03-20

    摘要: A spark plug includes: a center electrode (50); an insulator (11) having a through hole (29, 44) that surrounds at least a part of the center electrode (50); a metal shell (60) that holds the insulator (11) from an outer peripheral side thereof and that is substantially tubular, and the metal shell (60) includes a shelf portion (67) that projects radially inward. The insulator (11) includes an engagement portion (24) that is engaged with the shelf portion (67) from the front side, and a front end portion (42) that is present at the front side with respect to a front end of the metal shell (60). At least a part of the front end portion (42) has an outer diameter larger than an inner diameter of the metal shell (60) at the front side with respect to the shelf portion (67). The insulator (11) has, in a portion including a front end of the insulator (11), a diameter-enlarged portion (47) at which a diameter of the through hole (44) increases and which is spaced apart from an outer peripheral surface of the center electrode (50).

    ION CURRENT DETECTION SYSTEM
    63.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:EP3045818B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-03

    申请号:EP15202745.4

    申请日:2015-12-24

    IPC分类号: F23Q7/00

    CPC分类号: F23Q7/001 F23Q2007/002

    摘要: [Objective] To accurately detect ion current generated as a result of combustion in an internal combustion engine. [Means for Solution] An ignition assist device 10 includes a housing 12; a ceramic member 11 disposed in the housing 12 and having a distal end portion 11a exposed from the housing 12; and a heat-generating element 20 and an ion detection electrode 30 which are embedded in the ceramic member 11 in such a manner as to be electrically insulated from each other. The ignition assist device 10 further includes an ion detection terminal portion 31 for applying an ion detection voltage to the ion detection electrode 30, and two heat-generating-element terminal portions 21 and 22 disposed at such positions as to not come into contact with the internal combustion engine and adapted to supply electricity to the heat-generating element 20.

    SPARKPLUG AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR

    公开(公告)号:EP2333916B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-29

    申请号:EP09819266.9

    申请日:2009-10-09

    发明人: KATO, Tomoaki

    IPC分类号: H01T13/20 H01T13/39 H01T21/02

    CPC分类号: H01T21/02 H01T13/20 H01T13/39

    摘要: [Objective] To reduce or prevent the generation of abnormal discharge across a gap other than the regular gap between a center electrode and a ground electrode in a spark plug which has the center electrode formed by performing laser welding along the circumference of a joint surface between a center electrode base metal and a noble metal tip in excess of full circumference. [Means for Solution] When G represents a spark gap and A represents a shortest gap between a laser weld bead and a line drawn in parallel with the axis X of a metallic shell along the inner surface of a proximal end portion of a ground electrode which faces a center electrode, G and A establish a dimensional relation A ‰¤ 3G. As viewed in the direction of the axis X from the front end of the noble metal tip 1, a straight line S1 which connects the center of the noble metal tip 1 and the circumferential center of a proximal end 52 of the ground electrode 51 and a straight line S2 which connects the center of the noble metal tip 1 and a vertex 8 of a protrusion 7 formed at a final end portion 6e of a bead 6 formed by circumferential laser welding form an angle ¸ of 45 degrees. Since the protrusion 7 of the bead is the angle ¸ away from the ground electrode 51, an abnormal discharge is unlikely to be generated.

    SPARK PLUG
    69.
    发明公开
    SPARK PLUG 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3355423A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-01

    申请号:EP18150452.3

    申请日:2018-01-05

    IPC分类号: H01T13/39 H01T13/20 H01T13/32

    摘要: A spark plug having a tip (22) formed of an alloy containing Pt. The tip (22) contains not less than 6 mass% of Rh, at least one element selected from an R group consisting of Rh, Re, Ir, Ru, W, Mo, and Nb, not less than 5 mass% of Ni, and at least one element selected from an N group consisting of Ni, Co, Fe, and Cu. The tip (22) contains Rh most among the elements of the R group, and contains Ni most among the elements of the N group. The total of contents of Pt, Rh, and Ni is not less than 91 mass%, and the total of contents of Pt, the R group, and the N group is not less than 95 mass%. A value obtained by dividing the content of the R group by the content of the N group is not less than 0.7 and not greater than 8.

    SPARK PLUG
    70.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:EP2360797B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-11

    申请号:EP09824581.4

    申请日:2009-11-02

    IPC分类号: H01T13/32 H01T13/20 H01T13/46

    CPC分类号: H01T13/467 H01T13/32

    摘要: An object is to provide a spark plug which can improve startability and sooting-up prevention performance of an internal combustion engine in a low temperature environment. Means for solution is a spark plug 1 which includes an electrode 5, an insulator 2, a metallic shell 3, a main ground electrode 30, and at least two auxiliary ground electrodes 40. The spark plug 1 is characterized in that (i) the main ground electrode 30 is disposed so that its distal end portion faces a side surface of a front end portion of the center electrode 5 and forms a main spark discharge gap 38 between the distal end portion and the front end portion of the center electrode 5; (ii) each of the auxiliary ground electrodes 40 is disposed so that a portion of its distal end portion end surface faces an outer circumferential surface of a front end portion of the insulator 2; and (iii) a total area S satisfies an expression S/Av