Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

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Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Denso Corpora Tion

Denson Corporation

Tetsuya Miwa

Kanechiyo Terada

Hiromi Hiramatsu

Masamichi Shibata

Atsuya Mizutani

Shinichi Okabe

Akimitsu Sugiura

Keiji Kanao

Takeo Maekawa

Tohru Yoshinaga

Hiroshi Yorita

Fumiaki Aoki

Daisuke Tanaka

Norihiro Adachi

Ryota Wakasugi

Takehiko Kato

Atsushi Iwami

Yuuki Kawata

Masataka Deguchi

Kaori Doi

Hirofumi Suzuki

Tomonari Chiba

Isao Goto

Yukio Kunieda

Hitoshi Morita

Yuuki Tsukamoto

Shunichi Takeda

Makoto Toriyama

Yoshimi Nakase

Kenji Hattori

Noboru Nagase

Hironori Osamura

Ryusuke Ishikawa

Tatsushi Nakashima

Keiko Miyake

Hiroaki Maehara

Keiichi Nakajima

Hideki Kawamura

Yoshiki Morita

Tadashi Fujita

Takayuki Hattori

Tatsuhito Yoshida

Jyun-ichi Wada

Yoshihiro Izumi

Shintaro Itoh

An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine includes a primary bobbin including a winding cylinder part and a connection part between the winding cylinder part and a connector part, a primary coil including a primary main coil and a primary sub coil, and a secondary coil. When one of the primary main coil and the primary sub coil that includes an innermost coil part around the winding cylinder part is defined as a firstly-wound coil and the other is defined as a secondly-wound coil, firstly-wound ends, which are ends of the firstly-wound coil, and secondly-wound ends, which are ends of the secondly-wound coil, are attached to the connection part, and a shortest distance from a central axis of the winding cylinder part to each of the firstly-wound ends is smaller than a shortest distance from the central axis of the winding cylinder part to each of the secondly-wound ends.

Ignition coil for internal combustion engine

A reception range varying system includes a vehicle control device and a portable device. The reception range varying system determines whether a position where the portable device exists is within an execution range which enables execution of vehicle control over the portable device, or within a reception range but outside the execution range, and narrows the reception range so that the portable device is positioned outside the reception range while maintaining the reception range at a size equivalent to or larger than the execution range, on the basis that the position where the portable device exists is within the reception range but outside the execution range.

Reception range varying system, vehicle control device, and portable device

An ignition control system for an internal combustion engine includes a controller, which includes an IGT generating section and an IGW generating section and is connected to ignition devices through an IGT signal line and an IGW signal line. The IGW signal line includes bifurcated portions, which sequentially bifurcate from a common main signal line. The bifurcated portions each correspond to one of the ignition devices and include a branched line, which is connected to an energy supply circuit inside the corresponding ignition device.

Ignition control system for internal combustion engine

A spark plug has a housing of a cylindrical shape and an insulator supported to an inside of the housing. A channel part is formed at a distal end side of the housing. The channel part is open so that the inside of the housing communicates with an outside of the housing through the channel part. The channel part has a channel bottom having a tapered shape oblique relative to a plug central axis. An overall channel bottom is arranged in the housing closer to a proximal end side than to the distal end side of the housing.

Spark plug having a housing with a channel part

A spark plug has a housing, an insulator, a central electrode and a ground electrode. At least one projection part is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the insulator at a location facing a distal end cylindrical surface of the insulator in a radial direction of the spark plug so that at least one projection part has a minimum distance measured from a plug central axis of the spark plug, which is longer than a distance of another part of the insulator measured from the plug central axis. On a cross section of the spark plug, at least one projection part is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the insulator in a direction between at least one projection part and the plug central axis which crosses to a direction between a rod-shaped part and the plug central axis.

Spark plug

A spark plug has a tubular ground electrode, an insulator, and a center electrode. The insulator has an insulator protruding portion protruding to a tip end side in a plug axial direction with respect to the ground electrode. The center electrodehas an exposed portion exposed through a tip end of the insulator protruding portion. The exposed portion of the center electrode has a first part covering the insulator protruding portion from the tip end side in the plug axial direction, and a second part extending from the first part to a base end side in the plug axial direction and covering the entire circumference of an outer peripheral surface of the insulator protruding portion from an outer peripheral side in a plug radial direction.

Spark plug for internal combustion engine

In a spark plug for an internal combustion engine, a cylindrical insulator is arranged radially inside a cylindrical ground electrode, and includes an insulator protruding portion protruding further toward a distal end side in an axial direction than a distal end of the ground electrode. A center electrode is held radially inside the insulator, and includes an exposed portion exposed from a distal end of the insulator protruding portion. The spark plug generates a discharge from the exposed portion to the ground electrode, in a discharge gap formed along a surface of the insulator protruding portion. At least one of the exposed portion and the insulator protruding portion includes a flow inlet that is open on an outer circumferential surface thereof, a flow outlet that is open toward the discharge gap, and a communication passage communicating between the flow inlet and the flow outlet.

In a spark plug for an internal combustion engine, a discharge gap is formed between a central electrode and a ground electrode in an axial direction of the spark plug. An insulator of a cylindrical shape has an axial hole and an insulator front end part. The axial hole is formed in the insulator, into which the central electrode is arranged and supported. The insulator front end part projects further toward a front side of the insulator in the axial direction of the spark plug than a location of an opening part formed at a front end side of the axial hole. The discharge gasp is formed in an auxiliary combustion chamber. The outer peripheral side of the auxiliary combustion chamber is covered with the insulator front end part.

Spark plug of internal combustion engine

A spark plug for an internal combustion engine includes a housing, an insulator, and a center electrode. The center electrode includes an inside electrode portion and an outside electrode portion. The housing includes a ground electrode projecting from a distal end portion of the housing toward the distal end side of the plug at a part in a plug circumferential direction. The outside electrode portion projects along a surface of the insulator tip in a direction away from a boundary with the inside electrode portion and includes a projection, which is capable of causing an electrical discharge between the ground electrode and the outside electrode portion. The projection is formed in a region in the plug circumferential direction. The projection and the ground electrode are located at positions different from each other in the plug circumferential direction.

In an ignition apparatus, a controller outputs a discharge start signal instructing a start of a discharge in the spark plug, and a discharge control signal instructing control of a discharge current in the spark plug after the start of the discharge. A signal line connects between the controller and a control circuit. The discharge start signal and the discharge control signal are transferred from the controller to the control circuit via the signal line. The controller modulates, based on the plural command values, the discharge control signal such that the modulated discharge control signal includes information representing the plural command values and change timings for the respective command values. The control circuit controls, based on the discharge start signal and the modified discharge control signal, the energization circuit to thereby adjust the discharge current to each of the command values at a corresponding one of the change timings.

Ignition apparatus

In an ignition coil for an internal combustion engine, a spark plug is incorporated which has an insulator including an insulator head that has no corrugation. The ignition coil has a coil body part generating high voltage and a joint part, which holds therein a conducting member electrically connecting the coil body part and a spark plug. The joint part has a plug cap into which the insulator head of the spark plug is inserted and which is formed of an elastic member having a cylindrical shape. The plug cap has a close-contact part whose inner peripheral surface is closely brought into contact with an outer peripheral surface of the insulator. The close-contact part has a tip end-side close-contact part positioned at a tip end side with respect to a middle position in an axial direction, and a base end-side close-contact part positioned at a base end side with respect to the middle position. At least part of the base end-side close-contact part is provided with a strong strained force part that has strained force for fastening the insulator head, the strained force being stronger than strained force of all portions of the tip end-side close-contact part.

A spark plug for an internal combustion engine is provided which includes a housing, a porcelain insulator, a center electrode, and an annular ground electrode. The housing has a small-diameter portion which has a smaller inner diameter and defines a front end thereof. The ground electrode is secured to a front end surface of the small-diameter portion and forms a spark gap between itself and an outer periphery of the center electrode. The ground electrode is smaller in outer diameter than the front end surface of the small-diameter portion. A annular weld which joints the ground electrode and the small-diameter portion is formed in an annular boundary through which the front end surface of the small-diameter portion and the base end surface of the ground electrode face each other. The annular weld continuously and fully extends in a circumferential direction of the ground electrode.

Spark plug for internal combustion engine and production method thereof

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Tetsuya Miwa