Pressure Measuring Glow Plug

• US 20110197666A1
• Filed: 04/21/2009
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Borgwarner BERU Systems GmbH (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Borgwarner BERU Systems GmbH (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Inventors: Cheng, Yue, Allgaier, Martin
• Application Number:
  US12/989,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20110197666A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/114.19
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 19/028 the glow plug being combined with or used as a sensor
• CPC Class Codes: F23Q 2007/002 with sensing means
• CPC Class Codes: F23Q 2007/004 Manufacturing or assembling methods
• CPC Class Codes: F23Q 7/001 Glowing plugs for internal-combustion engines

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for determining the combustion chamber pressure. The device includes a tubular base, a glow filament which projects from the tubular base, and at least one sensor element arranged in the tubular base. The invention is characterized in that the sensor element inserted between a front face of the glow filament and a prestressing element that is welded to the tubular base.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An apparatus for determining combustion chamber pressure, said apparatus comprising:

a tubular body,

a glow pin protruding from the tubular body;

a prestressing element, disposed in the tubular body; and

a sensor element disposed in the tubular body, said sensor element being clamped between a face of the glow pin and the prestressing element.

17. The apparatus for determining the combustion chamber pressure according to claim 16, wherein the sensor element rests against the face of the glow pin.

18. An apparatus for determining the combustion chamber pressure according to claim 16, wherein the prestressing element is disposed entirely in the tubular body.

19. An apparatus for determining the combustion chamber pressure according to claim 16, wherein an annular space is formed between the sensor element and the tubular body.

20. An apparatus for determining the combustion chamber pressure according to claim 16, wherein the prestressing element rests against the tubular body with a lateral surface.

21. An apparatus for determining the combustion chamber pressure according to claim 16, wherein the prestressing element has a lateral recess which is filled with solder.

22. An apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the prestressing element has a reduced diameter at the side thereof facing away from the sensor element and in this way an annular space formed between the tubular body and the prestressing element is filled with solder.

23. An apparatus for determining the combustion chamber pressure according to claim 16, wherein the sensor element has a passage through which a connection of the glow pin is guided.

24. An apparatus for determining the combustion chamber pressure according to claim 16, wherein the sensor element is surrounded concentrically by the tubular body.

25. An apparatus for determining the combustion chamber pressure according claim 16, wherein the apparatus is a glow plug, the housing of which is formed by the tubular body.

26. A method for producing an apparatus according to claim 16, comprising the following steps:

arranging a sensor element in a tubular body between a face of a glow pin and a prestressing element which is disposed in the tubular body and provided with solder, and

melting the solder by heating the zone of the prestressing element provided with solder,

wherein a section of the tubular body is heated so as to melt the solder and a prestress acting on the sensor element is generated by shrinking the heated section during cooling.

27. The method according to claim 26, wherein the amount of the prestress is adjusted by way of the position and size of the heated surface of the body.

28. The method according to claim 27, wherein a pressing pressure is applied to the prestressing element by way of a pressing pin.

29. A method according to claim 26, wherein a pressing pressure is applied to the prestressing element during heating.

30. A method according to claim 26, wherein the solder is applied to a lateral surface of the prestressing element and thereafter the prestressing element is introduced in the body.