Abstract:
A spark plug having an insulator, a metallic shell disposed around the insulator, a first ground electrode having a first surface facing a side surface of a center electrode in a radial direction so as to form a first gap, and a second ground electrode having a second surface facing the side surface of the center electrode in the radial direction so as to form a second gap. A relation 60°≦θ≦150° is satisfied, where θ is a smaller one of angles formed between a first line connecting an axial line of the center electrode and the center of the first surface and a second line connecting the axis and a center of the second surface when viewed from a forward end side toward a rear end side in the direction of the axis.
Abstract:
A plasma jet plug has a cavity defined by a surface of a center electrode, an inner surface of an insulator, and a surface of a ground electrode. When a volume of a portion of the cavity on a front side of a front portion of the center electrode is a first volume V1 and a volume of a portion of the cavity on a rear side of the front end of the center electrode is a second volume V2, the following expression is satisfied: V1/V2≧0.20.
Abstract:
A spark plug having an insulator with a front end portion having an annular groove opened to a front side around an axial line. The groove has a width of greater than or equal to 0.2 mm in a radial direction. In a cross section including the axial line, a value D/L obtained by dividing, by a length L, a creepage distance D, from a position P on the frontmost side of a region in which a clearance distance between an outer surface of a front end portion and an inner circumferential surface of a metal shell is less than or equal to 0.1 mm to a connection position between an outer surface of the front end portion and the axial hole, is greater than or equal to 1.1.
Abstract:
A non-thermal equilibrium plasma ignition plug including a tubular metallic shell having an axial hole extending along an axial line, an insulator disposed in such a manner as to form a gap in cooperation with a wall surface of the axial hole at a forward end portion of the metallic shell, and a center electrode held at the center of the insulator, and generates nonequilibrium plasma in response to voltage applied thereto from a power supply. The insulator has a plurality of depressions or protrusions formed on a surface thereof which faces a discharge space therearound.
Abstract:
In an ignition plug, since a ground electrode is formed in a thin-rod-shape or a mesh-like shape, sufficiently strong radicals are locally generated by a barrier discharge, an anti-inflammation effect by the electrode is small, and the growth of a flame is hardly hindered. Furthermore, by making the thickness dimension of a second dielectric facing a discharge region uniform, the barrier discharge is spread over the surface of the second dielectric, the generation of the radicals is maintained, and combustibility after ignition is promoted. Furthermore, because an end portion of a high voltage electrode and a ground electrode are disposed to face each other within a combustion chamber, a fuel gas introduced into the combustion chamber is liable to flow into the discharge region, and is easily ignited by the radicals generated due to the discharge.
Abstract:
A plasma jet plug includes: a tubular insulator having an axial hole; a center electrode disposed inside the axial hole; metal shell disposed on an outer circumference of the insulator; and an orifice electrode electrically connected to the metal shell and disposed on a front side of the insulator. A plasma generating cavity is formed by a surface of the center electrode, an inner surface of the insulator, and an inner surface of the orifice electrode. In the plasma jet plug, a shortest path length D1 of a surface path is greater than or equal to 5 times an aerial gap G, where the surface path extends, inside the cavity, from a surface of the center electrode via an inner surface of the insulator to an inner surface of the orifice electrode, and the aerial gap G is a shortest distance between the center electrode and the orifice electrode.