GAS SENSOR UNIT

• US 20110259084A1
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NGK Spark PLUG Company Limited
• Original Assignee: NGK Spark PLUG Company Limited
• Inventors: ATSUMI, Takayoshi, FUJITA, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US13/091,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20110259084A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/31.05
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/4067 Means for heating or controlling the temperature of the solid electrolyte

Abstract

A gas sensor unit including: a gas sensor which includes a gas detection element, a sensor terminal and a cylindrical surrounding body which surrounds a periphery of the rear end of the sensor terminal; and a sensor cap. The sensor cap includes a cap terminal and a cap body which has an insertion hole surrounding a part of the rear end of the surrounding body. The cap body is formed of a resin, and a cap body seal surrounding the surrounding body is fitted into the insertion hole. The cap body includes a rear end seal pressing portion that contacts a rear end side surface of the cap body seal; and a leading end seal pressing portion that contacts a leading end side surface of the cap body seal, which holds the cap body seal.

Claims

1. A gas sensor unit comprising:

a gas sensor including;

a gas detection element which extends in an axial direction and has a cylinder shape with a bottom in which a leading end side is closed,

a sensor terminal which is inserted into a round hole of the gas detection element to be electrically connected to an inner electrode formed at an inner surface of the gas detection element and having a rear end protruding from a rear end side of the gas detection element, and

a cylindrical surrounding body which surrounds a periphery of the rear end of the sensor terminal; and

a sensor cap including;

a cap terminal which is electrically connected to the sensor terminal, and

a cap body which has an insertion hole surrounding at least a part of the rear end of the surrounding body, the cap body surrounding a periphery of the cap terminal,

wherein the cap body is formed of a resin, and a cap body seal surrounding the surrounding body is fitted into the insertion hole, and

wherein the cap body includes;

a rear end seal pressing portion that contacts with a rear end side surface of the cap body seal; and

a leading end seal pressing portion that contacts a leading end side surface of the cap body seal,

wherein the cap body seal is hold by the rear end seal pressing portion and the leading end seal pressing portion of the cap body.

2. The gas sensor unit according to claim 1,

wherein the cap body includes:

a main cap body portion having the rear end seal pressing portion; and

a seal stopper fitting into the insertion hole and having the leading end seal pressing portion, the main cap body portion and the seal stopper being provided as separate components, and

wherein the seal stopper is coupled to the main cap body portion at a leading end side of the cap body seal so as to hold the cap body seal.

3. The gas sensor unit according to claim 2,

wherein a concave portion or an open portion is provided at a leading end side of the main cap body portion, and

wherein the seal stopper has an outward engagement portion protruding outward in a radial direction to engage the concave portion or the open portion, and the seal stopper is fitted to an inside of the main cap body portion.

4. The gas sensor unit according to claim 2,

wherein an outer surface of the main cap body portion has a concave portion or an open portion, and

wherein the seal stopper has an inward engagement portion protruding inward in a radial direction to engage with the concave portion or the open portion, and the seal stopper is fitted to an outside of the main cap body portion.

5. The gas sensor unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a metal shell which supports the gas detection element; and

a metallic outer cylinder which surrounds an outside of the surrounding body,

wherein the outer cylinder is fixed to the metal shell.

6. The gas sensor unit according to claim 5,

wherein the outer cylinder is crimped and fixed to the metal shell.

7. The gas sensor unit according to claim 1,

wherein at least a part of the cap body seal is located at a rear end side of the sensor cap rather than at a center thereof when viewed from the axial direction.