International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC

Navistar International Transportation Corporation

Franco Franchi

Andrew D Merrick

Kenneth R Seymour, Ii

Robert Lawrence Rowells

Edgardo Y Estacio

Kenneth J Gogots

An apparatus that may be utilized as a glow plug connector () includes a retainer () disposed between retainer flanges (), advantageously in a groove (). The retainer () is capable of compressing to fit, for example, within a passage of a rocker carrier () of an internal combustion engine, and capable of subsequently expanding to prevent the connector () from being dislodged from the passage.

Retainer for connector

There is provided a wire guide for guiding and protecting wires from moving parts underneath the valve cover in a diesel engine. The wire guide has a channel portion connected to a base for securing the wire guide to the cylinder head. The base may be comprised of a retaining clip having two prongs that form an assembly that &ldquo;snaps-on&rdquo; to an injector clamp holder to secure the wire guide to the cylinder head. The channel portion is configured to cross a rocker arm when the wire guide is mounted on the cylinder head. The channel portion creates a conduit for holding the wires. The conduit is partially closed on at least one side and has an open side with intermittently spaced retaining tabs. The retaining tabs may be intermittently spaced as a series of pair tabs or alternating opposing singular tabs.

Wire guide for electronically controlled fuel injection systems

There is provided a glow plug connection apparatus for installing a plurality of glow plug connectors to corresponding glow plugs mounted in a cylinder head in an internal combustion engine while simultaneously preventing engine oil leakage. The apparatus comprises a rigid buss bar rail, a plurality of glow plug connectors attached to the buss bar rail, a plurality of connector wires routed in the buss bar rail and connected to the glow plug connectors, a wire router, a conduit retaining clip, and an apparatus connector angle. Additionally, the glow plug connectors preferably comprises a buss bar rail interface section, a glow plug connector angle, a sealing section having an O-ring seal, a guide section having guide fins around the periphery of the glow plug connector, and a clip section having a clip fingers around the periphery of the glow plug connector able to engage a glow plug terminal.

Glow plug connection apparatus

A wiring harness support and under valve cover oil deflector formed from a single sheet metal blank that is connected to each individual injectors, by a single bolt, of a Hydraulically-actuated Electronically-controlled Unit Injector (HEUI) system for a diesel engine. This combined wiring harness support and oil deflector aligns itself when mounted in the proper tapped holes in the unit injectors.

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Wood Dale, IL, United States of America

Franco Franchi