摘要:
[Objective] To provide a spark plug which is configured such that an insulation member, from which a center electrode projects, is pressed frontward and held in a metallic shell, and is fixed by means of crimping the rear end of the metallic shell, and which can prevent a drop in gastightness between the metallic shell and the insulation member due to a difference in thermal expansion therebetween. [Means for Solution] In a spark plug in which a mating shaft portion (10) of an insulation member (1) is loose-fitted into a mating hole portion (30) of a metallic shell (21), a filler (41) for maintaining gastightness is charged between the outer circumferential surface of the mating shaft portion (10) and the inner circumferential surface of the mating hole portion (30). Despite the thermal expansion difference, the gastightness is maintained, because the filler (41) for maintaining gastightness is charged between the inner and outer circumferential surfaces.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide a spark plug capable of preventing a separation of a noble metal tip and extending a service-life of the spark plug. A spark plug 1 is provided with an insulator 2, a metal shell 3, a center electrode 5 and a ground electrode 27. The ground electrode 27 includes a ground electrode main body 38 and a convex portion 34 which projects from a front end side face of the ground electrode main body 38. A noble metal tip 32 is joined to a front end face (contact face 36) of the convex portion 34. A projection length L from the ground electrode main body 38 to a front end face 37 of the noble metal tip 32 falls within the range from 0.4 mm or more to 1.6 mm or less. The noble metal tip 32 is made of a Pt alloy containing Pt as a principal component. The Pt alloy is formed so that a mean particle size thereof is 70 micrometers after being heated at 1100 degrees C under an air atmosphere for 50 hours. The Pt alloy contains at least one kind of component selected from Rh, Ir, Ni and Ru.
摘要:
To provide a method of producing a spark plug in which a spark discharge gap with a suitable distance can easily be obtained without bending to deform a ground electrode in a direction in which the ground electrode moves towards or away from a metal tip of a center electrode, in the method of producing a spark plug, when a metal tip (a noble metal tip) 21 is welded to a front end portion 13a of a center electrode 13, the metal tip 21 is welded to the front end portion 13a of the center electrode 13 after a state is established in which the metal tip 21 alone is positioned in a radial direction where a predetermined spark discharge gap g is formed relative to a distal end portion 14b of a ground electrode 14 which is joined to a metal shell 11 at a proximal end portion 14a thereof.
摘要:
A generation of a stress corrosion cracking is prevented in a middle section. The spark plug 1 includes an insulator 2 that extends along an axis CL1 direction and a metal shell 3. The metal shell 3 includes a middle section 41 that is positioned between a collar section 16 and a tool engaging section 19. The middle section 41 has a bulged section 42 that bulges towards both the inside and the outside in the diametrical direction, a first slender section 43 that is the most slender at a portion that is positioned further to the rear end side in the axis CL1 dircetion than the bulged section 42 and a second slender section 44 that is the most slender at a portion that is positioned further to the leading end side in the axis CL1 direction than the bulged section 42 and the bulged section 42 has the most bulged section 42M that bulges toward the most inside of diametrical direction. In a cross-section that includes the axis CL1, when the distance between both slender sections 43 and 44 along the axis CL1 is F (mm) and the bulged amount to the inside in diametrical direction of the most bulged section 42M with respect to an imaginary line that connects a portion that is positioned furthest to the inside in diametrical direction of both slender sections 43 and 44 is G (mm), 0.00
摘要:
According to the invention, it is provided a spark plug capable of increasing a welding strength between a leading end of a metal shell and a base end of a ground electrode to prevent fracture of a welded part due to vibrations and the like even when reducing a diameter of the metal shell. The spark plug 100 satisfies a relation of S2 ‰§ S wherein S2 is a sectional area of the welded part between the metal shell 11 and the ground electrode 14, the sectional area S2 being cut off by a plane including a leading end surface of the metal shell 11, and S is a sectional area of the ground electrode 14, the sectional area S being cut off by a plane passing to the most leading end of a boundary in the axial direction between the ground electrode 14 and the welded part and perpendicular to the axial direction.