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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2007
Hiroshi Ohashi, Aichi, JP;
Kiyoshi Inoue, Aichi, JP;
Masato Nagasaki, Seto, JP;
Yasuhiro Hori, Kasugai, JP;
Hiroshi Ohashi, Aichi, JP;
Kiyoshi Inoue, Aichi, JP;
Masato Nagasaki, Seto, JP;
Yasuhiro Hori, Kasugai, JP;
NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., Aichi, JP;
Abstract
In an apparatus for producing a spark plug, approach driving conditions are calculated on the basis of a specified thrust feeding amount so that, while a temporal overlap occurs between a time period of feed-driving toward a rolling position Pof a workpiece supporting portion () and an approach driving time period, in a circumferential direction of a workpiece W, a positional relationship between the starting position of the threaded portion which is rolling-formed, and the joining position of the ground electrode to the tip end face of the workpiece W is constant. The operation of an approach driving portion is controlled on the basis of the calculated approach driving conditions.