Ngk Spark Plug Company, Limited

Tomonari Hatta

Yoshihiro Nakamura

Shuei Ishii

A combustion pressure sensor having a tubular housing extending in an axial direction DX, a displacement member disposed within the housing, and a tubular connection member which elastically connects the displacement member to the housing. The combustion pressure sensor has a housing weld Wthat connects the housing and the connection member At least a circumferential portion of the housing weld is a bulge housing weld RWwhich bulges in a radial direction DR.

Combustion pressure sensor and method of manufacturing the same

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.

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Aichi, Japan

Tomonari Hatta