Development of New Concept Iridium Plug

Ken Hanashi; Yasutake Ishino; Hironori Osamura; Katsushi Hashizume

doi:10.4271/2001-01-1201

2001-01-05

Development of New Concept Iridium Plug 2001-01-1201

In the field of automotive gasoline engines, new products aiming at greater fuel economy and cleaner exhaust gases are under development with the aim of preventing environmental destruction. Severe ignition environments such as lean combustion, stronger charge motion, and large quantities of EGR require ever greater combustion stability. In an effort to meet these requirements, an iridium plug has been developed that achieves high ignitability and long service life through reduction of its diameter, using a highly wear-resistant iridium alloy as the center electrode.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾

Recently, direct injection engines have attracted attention. In stratified combustion, a feature of the direct injection engine, the introduction of rich air-fuel mixtures in the vicinity of the plug ignition region tends to cause carbon fouling. This necessitates plug carbon fouling resistance.

Success was achieved in developing a new concept iridium plug that dramatically improves carbon fouling resistance while preserving long service life and high ignitability found in conventional plugs. (Fig. 1)

This paper consists of the four chapters that follow describing the newly developed product.

Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Overview of New Concept Spark Plug
Chapter 3
Development Progress
Chapter 4
Evaluation on Actual Engines

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