Jidosha Kiki Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Metals, Ltd.

Mitusuke Masaka

Koji Hatanaka

Hirohisa Suwabe

Kenji Maruta

Takatoshi Arai

Kenzi Maruta

Yasunobu Ogata

Takashi Aota

Seiji Okazaki

Hideo Iwabuchi

Sokichi Minegishi

Michio Idei

Minoru Masaki

Koichiro Kurihara

Sachio Ogasawara

Hiroshi Suwabe

Kouji Hatanaka

An energization control apparatus for a glow plug includes a battery, a glow plug, a power control unit, and an energization controller. The glow plug has a low rated voltage which allows rapid heating at a low battery voltage during cranking of a diesel engine in a severe wintertime condition. The power control unit is arranged between the battery and the glow plug to control a power supplied to the glow plug. The energization controller controls the power control unit so as to equalize a root-mean-square value of a voltage applied to the glow plug to be the low rated voltage when a voltage applied to the glow plug at the start of the diesel engine is detected to be higher than the low battery voltage.

Energization control apparatus for glow plug

A glow plug for diesel engines in which a ceramic heater is supported, with the one end thereof cantilevered toward the outside, by the tip of a hollow holder; the ceramic heater is composed of a U-shaped heating portion and a pair of leads extending backwards from both ends of the U-shaped heating portion, both being formed integrally by an electrically conductive sintered sialon, which is formed by adding a small amount of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 to a raw meal containing Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 as a principal ingredient, a small amount of AlN polytype and no greater than 5 wt. % of Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, and mixing the addition product with 23-70 vol. % of at least one type of Ti carbide, nitride and carbide-nitride; an insulating layer is provided on the outer periphery of at least one of the leads and bonded to, and held by, the inside of the holder; and the rear end of the other of the leads is connected by means of a metallic lead wire to an external connection terminal held in an insulated state at the lead end of said holder.

Glow plug for diesel engines

A diesel engine glow plug having an elongated hollow electrically conductive holder, which holds a rod-like ceramic heater at one end thereof such that one end of the heater extends outside the holder. An external connecting terminal is positioned in the other end of the hollow holder and electrically insulated from the hollow holder. The ceramic heater is a U-shaped heating element with a pair of parallel lead portions made of a resistive ceramic material extending backward from both ends of the U-shaped heating element and arranged such that the outer surfaces of the lead portions are held by the distal end of the holder through electrical insulating layers between the inner surface of the holder and the outer surface of the lead portions. The rear end portions of the lead portions are electrode extraction ends wherein the electrode extraction end of one lead portion is electrically connected to the external connecting terminal through a conductive material and the electrode extraction end of the other lead portion is connected to the metal pipe which itself is electrically connected to the holder through a conductive material.

Glow plug for diesel engine

A glow plug for a diesel engine includes an electrically conductive ceramic (e.g., SIALON) heater having a U-shaped heating portion with a pair of integral parallel leg portions extending into the end of an elongated metallic holder. The leg portions have a thickness larger than the U-shaped heating portion and are electrically insulated from the holder by an electrically insulative coating formed therebetween. An electrically insulating sheet having essentially the same thermal expansion coefficient as the ceramic heater fills the gap between the leg portions and is bonded thereto to form a seal preventing combustion products from reaching the interior of the holder. A pair of coaxially arranged external connecting terminals extend into the other end of the holder and are electrically connected to the leg portions.

Bipolar diesel engine glow plug having a U-shaped ceramic heater

A glow plug for diesel engines includes a ceramic heater with a U-shaped heating portion and a pair of leads integrally formed with the heating portion and extending backwards from both ends of the heating portion. The heater is supported at one end thereof by a hollow holder in a cantilevered state with one end thereof protruding towards the outside. At least the outside surfaces of the leads are joined to, and held by, the inside of the holder via an insulating layer, and at least the rear ends of the other of the leads are connected via a metallic lead wire to an external connection terminal supported in an insulated state by the rear end of the holder. The ceramic heater is integrally formed from an electrically resistive sintered sialon produced by adding 20-70 vol. % Ti nitride or carbonitride as an electric conductivity donor to .beta.-type sialon or a .alpha./.beta.-type sialon.

A diesel engine glow plug includes a hollow holder, a ceramic heater, an electrically conductive annular member, an external connecting terminal, and an insulating sleeve. The annular member is interposed between the rear end portion of the ceramic heater and the distal end portion of the hollow holder. The external connecting terminal engages with the rear end portion of the ceramic heater from the rear end portion of the holder through an interior of the holder. The insulating sleeve is housed in the hollow holder to electrically insulate the external connecting terminal from the hollow holder. The ceramic heater includes a U-shaped heating portion and a pair of parallel lead portions extending backward from the heating portion and terminating in an enlarged diameter portion defining the rear end portion of the heater. One of the lead portions is electrically connected to the holder through the annular member. The remaining one of the lead portions is engaged with and electrically connected to the external connecting terminal. The rear end portion of the hollow holder fixes the above members housed in the holder. The annular member has a cylindrical portion, which surrounds the rear end portion of the heater, and a tapered portion which electrically connects the distal end portion of the holder with one of the lead portions.

Diesel engine glow plug

There is disclosed glow plug for a diesel engine provided with an elongated ceramic heater retained by an opening end of a hollow holder with one end of said ceramic heater being projected toward the outside. The ceramic heater comprises an insulating tubular section of an insulating ceramic material, and a heating body as a continuous conductive section formed so as to cover the outer peripheral portion, the outermost portion and the hollow portion of the insulating tubular section with a conductive ceramic material, the heating body being formed in a manner that the thickness of at least the outer peripheral portion of the insulating tubular member in the vicinity of said one end of the ceramic heater is thinner than that of other portions thereof. The insulating tubular section and the heating body constituting the ceramic heater are integrally formed with the ceramic material which can select insulating property and conductive property by adjusting an amount of titanium nitride added into .beta.-sialon or a sialon consisting of a mixture of .alpha.- and .beta.- sialons. Thus, there is provided a glow plug provided with a ceramic heater which exhibits a function as a heater of the rapid heating type and provide a self-temperature saturation characteristic such that its heating characteristic can be improved to attain after glow for a long time.

A self-temperature control type glow plug includes a rod heater held at a front end of a hollow metal holder and having one end extending outside the hollow metal holder. The rod heater includes a heating section made of a conductive ceramic material with a small positive temperature coefficient and a control section made of a conductive ceramic material with a positive temperature coefficient larger than that of the heating section. The heating section is formed integrally with the control section.

Self-temperature control type glow plug

An electromagnetic pump includes a coil bobbin with an excitation coil, a pair of magnetic cylinders, a printed circuit board with a transistor, and a pump housing. The coil bobbin is disposed around a sleeve member having a plunger therein. The pair of magnetic cylinders are axially inserted from two ends of the bobbin between the inner surface of the coil bobbin and the outer surface of the sleeve member. The pump housing consists of a cup-like housing body and a lid. The plunger, the magnetic cylinders and the pump housing are made of a magnetic material to form a magnetic flux path from the excitation coil.

Electromagnetic pump with simplified construction

An electromagnetic pump has a pump housing. The pump housing consists of a cup-like housing body with an outlet cylindrical portion at the center thereof and a lid member having an inlet cylindrical portion at the center thereof. The lid member is fixed to the cup-like housing body. The pump also includes a nonmagnetic sleeve member, a magnetic plunger slidably fitted in the nonmagnetic sleeve member, a return spring for biasing the plunger to a delivery side, inlet and outlet pipes, a coil bobbin arranged around the sleeve member, a transistor assembly consisting of a transistor and a heat sink, a printed circuit board, a holder mounted above the printed circuit board, a leaf spring arranged between the housing body and the holder. A plurality of studs extend on the outer side surface of the flange of the coil bobbin on which the transistor assembly is mounted and on an inner side surface of the holder. The transistor assembly, the printed circuit board and the holder are sequentially stacked through the studs with respect to the coil bobbin and are biased by the leaf spring toward the lid member.

Electromagnetic pump

A U shaped yoke member and a U shaped housing member are combined to define a closed space. A sleeve containing a plunger, an exciting coil wound about the sleeve, an oscillator for passing pulsating current through the exciting coil, a return spring, an inlet valve, an outlet valve, are contained in the space. The opposite ends of the sleeve extend through openings of a pair of spaced parallel legs of the yoke and are secured to the legs by inlet and outlet fixtures connected to the openings.

Electromagnetic pumps

In an electromagnetic pump wherein a plunger is reciprocated in a cylinder by an exciting coil energized by interrupted current from an oscillator, an insulating layer is coated on the outer surface of the coil and a space between the coil and a cover is filled with polyurethane foam.

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Saitama, Japan

Mitusuke Masaka