摘要:
A spark plug having a center electrode, a ground electrode, and an insulator. The ground electrode has a firing surface formed in a tip end side, and the firing surface is opposed to a side face of the center electrode. The insulator covers the outside of the center electrode and is placed such that a tip end portion is between the side face of the center electrode and the firing surface of the ground electrode. A discharge high voltage is applied across the center electrode and the ground electrode such that a polarity of the center electrode is positive and that of the ground electrode is negative. The high voltage causes a spark discharge to be generated between the firing surface of the ground electrode and a tip end portion of the center electrode.
摘要:
In a spark plug for use for an internal combustion engine, an elongated insulator is provided in which a center electrode is supported. A cylindrical metal shell is provided in which the insulator is supported, and a ground electrode extends from the metal shell to form a spark gap with a front end of the center electrode. The front end of the center electrode has a tapered-off step section whose front end surface has a spark erosion resistant portion, and having a boundary between a columnar portion of the center electrode and the tapered-off step section. The boundary of the tapered-off step section is located within a front end surface of the insulator, and a front end surface of the tapered-off step section is positioned outside of the front end surface of the insulator. The front end of the center electrode forms a conoidal configuration having an apex angle formed at the center of the center electrode, circumscribing a front periphery of the insulator while maintaining an apex angle of 110 degrees or less.
摘要:
In a multi-polarity type spark plug for an internal combustion engine, a tubular insulator is supported within a cylindrical metallic shell through which a spark plug is to be attached to an internal combustion engine. A center electrode is placed within the insulator, a front end of the center electrode being directed toward a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine from a front end of the metallic shell so as to extend beyond a front end of the insulator. First and second ground electrodes are each connected to the front end of the metallic shell, the first ground electrode forming a first vertical spark gap with a front end surface of the center electrode which directly opposes an elevational side of the center electrode, and the second ground electrode forming a second horizontal spark gap with an elevational side of the center electrode. An angle .theta.a is limited as 60.degree..ltoreq..theta.a .ltoreq.150.degree. in which the angle .theta.a is taken when the first ground electrode forms against the second ground electrode with the center electrode as an axial center.
摘要:
In a wire drawing process for forming a wire rod containing iridium as a main component and which further contains nickel and at least one of platinum, rhodium and ruthenium, and having a cross-sectional area of not smaller than 0.05 mm2 and not larger than 1.2 mm2. The worked material is continuously heated red hot and/or white hot in a heating region 103 extending up to 60 mm from the work inserting surface 101a of a die 101 in a direction opposite that in which the work 102 moves, the work being heated to a temperature of 1000 to 1150° C. at a temperature measuring position 105 which is removed from the work inserting surface 101a by 20 mm. Furthermore, the temperature in the region 106 extending from the temperature measuring position 105 to the work inserting surface 101a is set to not lower than 1000° C., and the wire drawing rate is set to 300 to 1600 mm/min.
摘要:
An object of the invention is to provide a spark plug having a discharge portion made of a precious metal tip, in which peeling of the precious metal tip from a surface of the discharge portion can be suppressed while spark abrasion, oxidation abrasion and abnormal abrasion of the discharge portion can be suppressed.
摘要:
In a wire drawing process for forming a wire rod containing iridium as a main component and which further contains nickel and at least one of platinum, rhodium and ruthenium, and having a cross-sectional area of not smaller than 0.05 mm2 and not larger than 1.2 mm2. The worked material is continuously heated red hot and/or white hot in a heating region 103 extending up to 60 mm from the work inserting surface 101a of a die 101 in a direction opposite that in which the work 102 moves, the work being heated to a temperature of 1000 to 1150° C. at a temperature measuring position 105 which is removed from the work inserting surface 101a by 20 mm. Furthermore, the temperature in the region 106 extending from the temperature measuring position 105 to the work inserting surface 101a is set to not lower than 1000° C., and the wire drawing rate is set to 300 to 1600 mm/min.
摘要:
An object of the invention is to provide a spark plug having a discharge portion made of a precious metal tip, in which peeling of the precious metal tip from a surface of the discharge portion can be suppressed while spark abrasion, oxidation abrasion and abnormal abrasion of the discharge portion can be suppressed. The invention comprises a center electrode (3), and a ground electrode (4) disposed so that its side surface is opposite to a leading end portion of the center electrode (3), characterized in that: a center electrode-side precious metal tip (31′) or a ground electrode-side precious metal tip (32′) is welded to at least one of the center electrode (3) and the ground electrode (4) to thereby form a center electrode-side discharge portion (31) having a center electrode-side discharge-surface (31t) or a ground electrode-side discharge portion (32) having a ground electrode-side discharge surface (32t) in a position opposite to a spark discharge gap g; and the center electrode-side precious metal tip (31′) or the ground electrode-side precious metal tip (32′) contains Ir as a main component, Rh, and Ni and further contains at least one of Pt and Pd.
摘要:
An ignition system has a spark plug and a positive voltage applying unit. The spark plug includes a central electrode, a porcelain insulator for holding the central electrode, a main metallic shell for holding the porcelain insulator, and a ground electrode electrically connected to the main metallic shell. The positive voltage applying unit applies a positive voltage to the central electrode of the spark plug in comparison with the ground electrode, so that an ignition high voltage is applied between the central electrode and the ground electrode. In the spark plug, a spark discharge gap is formed between the ground electrode and a distal end portion of the central electrode. The ground electrode is positioned so that a rear edge of a mating face opposed to a peripheral side of the central electrode is positioned in the side of the distal end of the central electrode in comparison with an end face of the porcelain insulator.
摘要:
An ignition system for an internal combustion engine. At least one of a plurality of spark plugs 4 and 5 attached to each of cylinders 2A, 2B, 3B, and 3A is a self-cleaning spark plug A.
摘要:
In a spark plug, a main air gap (A) is formed between a parallel ground electrode (11) and the end face of a central electrode (2), a semi-surface gap (B) is formed between the end face (12C) of a semi-surface ground electrode (12) and the side face (2A) of the central electrode (2) and a semi-surface air gap (C) is formed between the end face (12C) and the side face (1E) of insulator. In addition, difference in a level E between the height of the lower end face (1D) of the insulator (1) and the height of the upper edge (12B) of the end face 12C of the semi-surface ground electrode 12 is E≦+0.7 mm, the distance B of the semi-surface gap (B) is longer than the distance A of the main air gap (A) and the distance C of the semi-surface air gap (C) and the insulator is shorter than the distance A of the main air gap (A).