Ngk Spark Plug Company, Limited

Tatsuki Hirabayashi

Yuichi Yamada

Masahiro Tanaka

Tatsunori Yamada

Norikazu Ieda

Yoshinori Inoue

Shunsuke Maeda

Keigo Banno

Akito Ishihara

Reina Kito

A glow plug includes a heater member; heater power lead wires which extend rearward along an axis and whose conductors electrically communicate with one and of a heater conductor for supply of power; a sensor, portion for detecting the combustion pressure of an internal combustion engine; a sensor connection line connected to the sensor portion and extending rearward along the axis; a housing; a sensor-portion-enclosing tube; and a grommet formed from an insulating rubber-like elastic material, having insertion holes through which the heater power lead wires and the sensor connection line are respectively inserted, the grommet liquid-tightly closing an end portion of the sensor-portion-enclosing tube and liquid-tightly holding the heater power lead wires and the sensor connection line.

Glow plug having built-in sensor

An abnormality diagnosis method for a gas concentration measuring device, includes electrically shutting off measurement means from an oxygen concentration detecting cell and an oxygen pump cell of a gas sensor when a voltage at one of electrical connection points through which the measurement means is electrically connected to the oxygen concentration detecting cell and the oxygen pump cell becomes equal to a predetermined abnormal voltage value, and thereafter, electrically connecting the measurement means to the oxygen concentration detecting cell and the oxygen pump cell of the gas sensor to perform an abnormality diagnosis of the gas sensor. An abnormality diagnosis apparatus for a gas concentration measuring device is also provided.

Abnormality diagnosis method and apparatus for gas concentration measuring device

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Nagoya, Japan

Tatsuki Hirabayashi