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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2002
Masato Taniguchi, Aichi, JP;
Masaru Oshima, Nagoya, JP;
NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A glow plug comprises a ceramic heater having an insulating ceramic substrate, a heating resistor embedded in a front end portion of the ceramic substrate and a pair of first and second electric conductors embedded in the ceramic substrate and electrically connected at front end portions thereof to the heating resistor, a metallic sleeve circumferentially surrounding the ceramic heater with a front end portion of the ceramic heater protruded from the metallic sleeve, a metallic shell fitted onto the metallic sleeve, and a central electrode partly disposed in a rear portion of the metallic shell. The first and second electric conductors have rear end portions exposed at a rear end surface of the ceramic heater and electrically connected to the metallic shell and the central electrode via first and second connecting members, respectively.