Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Yutaka Nakane

Kenji Isaka

Nobukazu Ikoma

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Koji Egawa

A method of manufacturing a gas sensor includes a step of preparing an assembly including a sensor element, a metal cylindrical body through which the sensor element penetrates in an axial direction, and a protection cover that is attached to the cylindrical body and that covers one end side of the sensor element. The method also includes steps of arranging a coil in a periphery of at least a portion of the cylindrical body at the same side as the other end of the sensor element with respect to the protection cover to avoid the protection cover of the assembly, induction heating the portion of the cylindrical body where the coil is arranged in the periphery by applying current to the coil, and hence removing oil adhering to the portion.

Method of manufacturing gas sensor and method of removing oil

A method for fitting a protection tube to a gas sensor includes: a step for engaging tube-end opening jigs which have been inserted into the inside of a protection tube through its one end portion, with this end portion, for maintaining this end portion at an opened state, a step for bringing tube-end holding jigs into contact with this engagement portion from outside for holding the tube through pinching between these jigs, and a step for inserting the sensor into the inside of the tube being held through pinching, wherein the insertion of the sensor into the inside of the tube is continued even after an end portion of the sensor comes into contact with the inner surface of the tube, while the engagement of the tube with the tube-end opening jigs is gradually released, thereby fitting the tube to the sensor.

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Okazaki, Japan

Yutaka Nakane