摘要:
A spark plug in use for an internal combustion engine, includes an insulator placed in a metal shell in a manner to extend its front end beyond the metal shell, a center electrode is placed within an axial bore provided by the insulator, an outer electrode which is welded to a front end of the metal shell is so bent that a firing end of the outer electrode faces a front end of the insulator with a space therebetween to cause surface-spark discharges along a front end surface of the insulator and to cause a semi-surface spark discharge between the center electrode and the outer electrode, the front end of the center electrode is protroacted from a front end of the insulator by at most than 0.5 mm or retracted from the front end of the insulator by at most than 1.0 mm, and the firing end of the outer electrode is in line with the front end surface of the insulator, thereby optimizing a carbon-deposit cleaning performance of the spark plug with the semi-surface spark discharge, according to the invention. In addition, a firing end portion of the center electrode has a slender noble metal tip in a preferred embodiment of the spark plugs of the invention.
摘要:
A spark plug with pressure sensor comprising; a center electrode having a high voltage terminal; an insulator provided around said center electrode to securely support it; a tubular metallic shell provided to support said insulator at its inner side; a pressure sensor having a piezoelectrical element at least enclosed by a casing of a metallic hollow ring; the metallic shell having a diameter-increased portion and a diameter-reduced portion; the casing of the sensor being inserted into the diameter-reduced portion with an inner side of the casing tightly engaging the outer side of the diameter-reduced portion; a mount means having a ring portion and a flange portion; the ring portion tightly inserted into the diameter-reduced portion while the flange portion tightly sandwiching the casing with a step between the diameter-reduced portion and the diameter-increased portion; and the ring portion being welded to said diameter-reduced portion to maintain air-tight relationship between an innerside of the ring portion and outer side of the diameter-reduced portion.
摘要:
In a misfire detector device for use in internal combustion engine, an electrical interrupter circuit on-off actuates a primary current flowing through a primary circuit of an ignition coil to induce a sparkplug voltage which is applied to a multi-electrode type spark plug. A check diode or a series gap is provided in a secondary circuit of the ignition coil so as to prevent a current flowing back to the ignition coil. A sparkplug voltage detector circuit detects an attenuation time length of a sparkplug voltage waveform presented subsequent to a predetermined time period after an end of a spark action of the spark plug. On the basis of the attenuation time length, a distinction circuit determines whether a misfire occurs in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine.
摘要:
In a misfire detector device for use in internal combustion engine, an electrical interrupter circuit on-off actuates a primary current flowing through a primary circuit of an ignition coil to induce a spark plug voltage. A check diode is provided in a secondary circuit of the ignition coil to prevent a current flowing back to the ignition coil. The spark plug has a center electrode, a front end of which is projected from an insulator, and an outer surface area of the projected front end being 25 mm.sup.2 or more. A spark plug voltage detector circuit detects an attenuation time length of a spark plug voltage waveform presented subsequent to a predetermined time period occurring after an end of a spark action of the spark plug. On the basis of the attenuation time length, a distinction circuit determines whether a misfire occurs in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine.
摘要:
In an electrode for a spark plug, an elongated blank metal is made of a nickel-based alloy and including a front surface. A firing tip is provided from a slug made of a noble metal, the slug being concentrically placed on the front surface of the elongated blank metal and laser beam welded to thermally melt the entire slug and thereby produce a thermal weld, so that the front surface of the elongated blank metal is partly fused together with the slug to form a melted portion with the front surface and the slug so as to contain the front surface within the melted portion in the range of 0.5 wt % to 80.0 wt %.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a spark plug electrode, wherein a composite column is provided to have a heat-conductor core embedded in a metallic clad by means of extrusion. A firing tip is provided from a slug which is made of a noble metal. The slug is concentrically placed on an end surface of the metallic clad, and a laser beam welding is applied on the slug to thermally melt the entire the slug so that the end surface of the metallic clad is partly fused into the slug in the range of 0.5 wt % to 80.0 wt %.
摘要:
In a center electrode structure for spark plug including a tubular insulator, the inner side of which has a stepped shoulder to provide a diameter-reduced bore therein; a center electrode having a flange, and concentrically placed into the insulator with the flange engaging against the shoulder, and with one end being axially through the bore so as to be exposed to outside of the insulator; the center electrode having a highly heat conductive core of copper or copper-based alloy which is encased into an enclosure made of oxidation and heat resistant nickel-based alloy; and the core providing its overall outer surface with a thin oxidation layer, so that the core is clad with the enclosure through the oxidation layer by means of extrusion.
摘要:
A spark plug having a center electrode comprises a ceramic insulator whose leg portion is shaped at the tip in a bag form so as to close the insulator bore. A firing tip is provided at the bag-shaped tip in a face-to-face relation with a side electrode by fixing an electrode element made of a sinter of a ceramic powder containing particles of a size between 10 and 200 .mu.m which are coated with a noble metal to a thickness of 0.1-20 .mu.m. An electrode axis extends from the top end of the plug and is inserted through the insulator bore.
摘要:
A spark plug is provided having a center electrode disposed in a metallic shell through an insulator so that the front end of the center electrode forms a spark gap with an outer electrode. A platinum tip is secured to the outer electrode positioned to oppose the front end of the center electrode. The outer electrode is provided with a heat-conductive core metal cladded with a matrix metal which is made of a nickel-based alloy containing 10-20 wt. % chromium. The platinum tip is welded to the outer electrode to form a welded portion between the platinum tip and the outer electrode and the platinum tip is positioned to terminate slightly short of the core metal so that the distance between a circumferential edge of the welded portion and a front end of the core metal is in the range 0.0 mm-2.0 mm measured lengthwise along direction the outer electrode.
摘要:
Spark plug has a central electrode, an insulator provided exterior to the central electrode, main metallic shell provided exterior to the insulator in such a way that the central electrode protrudes from one end, and a ground electrode coupled at one end to the main metallic shell and which has the other end disposed to face the central electrode 3, with a chip being secured to either the central electrode or the ground electrode or both to form spark discharge gap g. The chip is made of a metal based on Ir which contains Rh in an amount ranging from 3 to 50 wt % (50 wt % being not inclusive).