Denso Corporation

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Denso Corpora Tion

Yoshitaka Sato

Akimitsu Sugiura

Koichi Kato

Kazuhide Kawai

Katsunori Akimoto

Kazutoyo Osuka

Norihiro Adachi

Masahiko Aoyama

Masafuyu Sano

Kaneo Buma

Hideyuki Kato

Yoshimi Nakase

Kazutoyo Oosuka

Hiroyuki Wakabayashi

Jyunichi Wada

Keisuke Kawano

Tomonari Chiba

Masahiro Inagaki

Yoshihiro Shimoide

Toshio Sugimoto

Koji Tsunenaga

Hajime Kasai

Koji Ishiguro

Takashi Tauchi

Atsuyuki Konishi

Tomonori Ishikawa

Katsuhisa Kato

Osamu Sugie

Seiki Nakagawa

Hideo Asakura

Hidetoshi Nakashima

Naruhiko Inayosi

Masaharu Shimohata

Shigeya Abe

An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, a case, and a joint. The primary and secondary coils are magnetically coupled with each other. The case includes a case body in which the primary and secondary coils are disposed and a cylindrical high-voltage tower which protrudes from a case bottom wall of the case body. The joint is fit on the high-voltage tower and a spark plug. The joint is of a cylindrical shape. A communicating void is formed between the high-voltage tower and the joint to communicate between an inner space of the high-voltage tower and the joint and an outer space disposed outside the high-voltage tower and the joint, thereby facilitating attachment or removal of the joint to or from the spark plug.

Ignition coil for internal combustion engine

In a discharge lamp apparatus for lighting a discharge lamp, a ballast is disposed outside of a lamp housing of a discharge lamp and is electrically connected to the discharge lamp through a connector. A ballast housing of the ballast is connected to a bottom wall of the lamp housing. In the ballast housing, a ballast circuit board is arranged along a top wall of the ballast housing that is opposed to the lamp housing. Accordingly, it is less likely that the ballast circuit board will be wetted by condensation or water vapor entered the ballast housing. Additionally, a partition wall can be provided in the ballast housing between the connector and the ballast circuit board to block the condensation or water vapor from flowing toward the ballast circuit board.

Discharge lamp apparatus

A discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes a transformer unit, a casing for housing the transformer unit, and a circuit board including circuit components. In the casing, the circuit board is joined to the casing and the transformer unit is fixed to the circuit board through a heat conductive member having thermal conductivity of more than 0.1 W/(m&#xb7;k). Heat produced by the transformer unit is transferred to the casing through the heat conductive member and released through the casing effectively. In the lighting apparatus, therefore, while the transformer unit is arranged relatively close to the circuit components, the heat can be prevented from affecting the circuit components.

Discharge lamp lighting apparatus

The apparatus for automatically adjusting a direction of a light axis of a vehicle headlight of the invention has a configuration in which the swivel control unit determines that the vehicle is making a left or right turn and halts the swivel control on the light axis of a vehicle headlight, if the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold speed and at least one of the conditions that the turn indication signal is in the on state, and that the steering angle is outside a predetermined angular range is satisfied. The swivel control unit resumes the swivel control when the turn indication signal is changed into the off state.

Apparatus for automatically adjusting direction of light axis of vehicle headlight

An ignition coil includes a cylindrical portion that includes a primary coil and a secondary coil, which are coaxially wound. The cylindrical portion can be inserted into a plughole of an engine. The cylindrical portion has a tip end in an axial direction thereof. The tip end of the cylindrical portion has a plug mounting hole, into which a sparkplug is mounted. The plug mounting hole accommodates a high voltage terminal, which electrically connects with one of the secondary coil, and a coil spring, which makes contact with the high voltage terminal. The cylindrical portion has a base end portion in one axial end thereof. The base end portion of the cylindrical portion includes at least one flange portion. The at least one flange portion radially outwardly protrudes. The at least one flange portion has multiple bolt insertion holes, through which a bolt is respectively inserted.

Ignition coil having rigid mounting structure

A stick-type ignition coil have a central core, a cylindrical member, primary spool, primary coil, secondary spool, secondary coil, outer core and a resin insulator. The two longitudinal end corners and faces of the core are covered by respective buffer members. The inner circumferential corners of the outer core supported by ring members. Some of the members disposed radially inside and other members disposed radially outside of the inside members are held slidably to each other in the ignition coil. The spools are made of resin containing a rubber in excess of 5 weight percent and reinforcing materials. The resin insulator contains a flexible material.

Stick-type ignition coil having improved structure against crack or dielectric discharge

A stick-type ignition coil have a central core, a cylindrical member, primary spool, primary coil, secondary spool, secondary coil, outer core and a resin insulator. The two longitudinal end corners and faces of the core are covered by respective buffer members. The inner circumferential corners of the outer core is supported by ring members. Some of the members disposed radially inside and other members disposed radially outside of the inside members are held slidably to each other in the ignition coil. The spools are made of resin containing a rubber in excess of 5 weight percent and reinforcing materials. The resin insulator contains a flexible material.

In a stick coil, there is disclosed an ignition coil for an internal combustion engine which can prevent a crack (a collar leak) from being generated due to a thermal stress. In this ignition coil, the structure is made such that a size (L) of a portion which is in parallel to an axial direction of a primary spool ( ) in a projection portion ( ) is larger than a size (T) of a portion which is in parallel to an orthogonal direction to the axial direction of the primary spool ( ). Accordingly, a frontal projected area of the projection portion ( ) as seen from a flowing direction of a resin becomes small, a resin flow is hard to get out of order at a time when the resin flows through a portion corresponding to the projection portion ( ) at the forming time, and a convoluted void and a weld are hard to be generated. Accordingly, since it is possible to prevent a mechanical strength in a root portion of the projection portion ( ) from being reduced, it is possible to previously prevent a crack from being generated in the root portion of the projection portion (the collar portion) ( ) due to a thermal stress so as to reduce an insulating property.

Ingition coil for internal combustion engine

An ignition coil includes a housing which contains a central core portion, an inner spool having a first winding, and an outer spool having a second winding. The inner spool extends outward of the central core portion. The outer spool extends outward of the inner spool. A locating member includes a locating rib adjacent to an upper portion of the central core portion. The locating rib is in a gap between the inner spool and the central core portion, and locates the inner spool and the central core portion relative to each other. Insulating resin injected into the housing provides insulation among parts in the housing. At least one of the inner spool and the locating member has a void-escape passage which connects the gap and an outside of the inner spool with each other, and which allows a void to escape from the injected insulating resin in the gap.

Ignition coil

An ignition distributor wherein at least either one of the discharge element of a stationary electrode and the discharge element of a rotary electrode are composed of a sintered body comprising at least a ferrite and silicon oxide and have a surface precipitate layer having a thickness of from 1 to 7 .mu.m and a silicon oxide content larger than that of a core portion of the sintered body and the discharge element has an electric resistivity of from 10.sup.4 to 10.sup.6 .OMEGA. in a portion from a site at which said voltage is applied to the discharge element to a site at which an electric discharge occurs.

Ignition distributor

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Toyohashi, Japan

Yoshitaka Sato