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Patent No.:

US 10767541 B1

Date of Patent:

Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2019

Attachment structure of particulate sensor, particulate sensor, sensor attachment portion, and sensor attachment portion equipped gas flow pipe

Applicant:

Ngk Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Nagoya-shi, Aichi, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroki Hattori, Nagoya, JP;

Ryosuke Noda, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:

NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD., Aichi, JP;

Attorney:

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Francis C Gray

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

F01N 11/00 (2006.01); G01N 15/06 (2006.01); F01N 13/00 (2010.01); G01N 15/00 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

F01N 11/00 (2013.01); F01N 13/008 (2013.01); G01N 15/0656 (2013.01); F01N 2560/05 (2013.01); G01N 2015/0046 (2013.01);

Abstract

A particulate sensor () having a sensor-side positioning portion () for determining the circumferential position of a sensor main body () with respect to a sensor attachment portion () when the particulate sensor () is attached to the sensor attachment portion (). The sensor attachment portion () has a pipe-side positioning portion () which conforms to the sensor-side positioning portion () and is configured such that, when the particulate sensor () is attached to the sensor attachment portion (), the circumferential position of the sensor main body () with respect to the sensor attachment portion () is always set to a fixed circumferential position.

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