PRESSURE SENSOR TYPE GLOW PLUG
DRIVE
June 17, 2015
To provide a pressure sensor integrated glow plug that suppresses the build-up of carbon and SOF in an interstice between a housing and a heater element to thereby ensure that the heater element is not restrained over a long period of time. [0002] A pressure sensor integrated glow plug inserted inside a cylinder of an internal combustion engine and used, the pressure sensor integrated glow plug being equipped with a housing, a rod-like heater element held with its distal end projecting from the housing, and a pressure sensor, with the heater element being held in the housing by a flexible member and configured in such a way that its position relative to the housing is displaceable, and with the pressure sensor being configured in such a way that it can receive pressure inside the cylinder because of the displacement of the heater element, wherein a heat-resistant fiber member carrying an oxidation catalyst component is disposed in an interstice between the housing and the heater element on the distal end side of the flexible member.
Discussion in the ATmosphere