Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Glow plug and method for manufacturing same
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Application No.: US14387474Application Date: 2013-03-06
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Publication No.: US09599341B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Tomonari Hatta , Shuei Ishii
- Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi
- Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2012-075296 20120329
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/001385 WO 20130306
- International Announcement: WO2013/145570 WO 20131003
- Main IPC: H05B1/02
- IPC: H05B1/02 ; F23Q7/00

Abstract:
A glow plug includes a housing having an axial hold and provided with a screw portion, and a heater member inserted into the axial hole. The housing includes a front-end-side body portion extending to the front end side from a front end of the screw portion, and a gasket portion lying adjacent to a front end side of the front-end-side body portion and bent at a bent portion provided at a rear end thereof so that at least a rear end portion thereof extends in a direction intersecting a direction of an axis. The gasket portion includes a pressure contact portion in which a surface thereof located at an outer circumferential side is brought into pressure contact with a seat surface of an internal combustion engine when the screw portion is screwed into a mounting hole in the internal combustion engine.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150076136A1 GLOW PLUG AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME Public/Granted day:2015-03-19
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