EP2515040A1 - dispositif de chauffage, notamment une bougie de préchauffage - Google Patents

dispositif de chauffage, notamment une bougie de préchauffage Download PDF

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EP2515040A1
EP2515040A1 EP12156839A EP12156839A EP2515040A1 EP 2515040 A1 EP2515040 A1 EP 2515040A1 EP 12156839 A EP12156839 A EP 12156839A EP 12156839 A EP12156839 A EP 12156839A EP 2515040 A1 EP2515040 A1 EP 2515040A1
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Hans-Juergen Brix
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23Q—IGNITION; EXTINGUISHING-DEVICES
    • F23Q7/00—Incandescent ignition; Igniters using electrically-produced heat, e.g. lighters for cigarettes; Electrically-heated glowing plugs
    • F23Q7/001—Glowing plugs for internal-combustion engines

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  • the invention relates to a heating device, in particular a glow plug according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a seal for a glow plug wherein a ceramic sealing element made of aluminum oxide is used as a radiator seal.
  • the ceramic sealing element is used as a solid sintered ring body in the opening of a glow tube of a heater.
  • the intermediate spaces between the inside of the glow tube and the ceramic element and between the ceramic element and connecting bolt are filled with a brazing alloy.
  • the soldering of the ceramic element is an additional step to be performed, which makes the production of the heater more expensive.
  • the present invention is therefore an object of the invention to provide a radiator seal for a heater, in particular a glow plug, on the one hand withstand high temperatures and on the other hand is inexpensive to carry out.
  • a ceramic sealing element which is made of steatite, which can be deformed under pressure to form a seal.
  • a preform made of steatite powder by pressing preformed and / or presintered, deformable steatite ring is used as a preform, which can be deformed during compression in the heating tube.
  • the preformed and / or pre-sintered, deformable preform is referred to below as a deformable steatite ring.
  • the deformable steatite ring is inserted in a sealing portion between the inner periphery of the heating tube and an outer periphery of a connecting bolt in an end opening of the heating tube. Subsequently, the heating tube is pressed radially onto the deformable steatite ring, whereby the deformable steatite again decomposes into powder constituents and the powder constituents are kept under the pressing force due to their flow properties between the inside of the heating tube and the outside of the connecting bolt, so that the sealing element Steatite forms.
  • the deformable steatite ring Due to the compressive forces substantially in the radial direction along the circumference of the heating tube and the flow properties of the deformable preform, i. the deformable steatite ring, which can decompose again into powder constituents during pressing, it may be expedient to exert an axial pressing force on the steatite ring in addition to the pressing force acting in the radial direction, which is applied substantially along the outside of the heating tube of the heating element.
  • the pressing force acting in the axial direction can be generated, for example, on the heating tube of the heating element, in particular on an end opening by means of a flange, which surrounds the presintered preform, i. the deformable steatite ring and the forming sealing element in the direction of the interior of the heater, i. presses on a located in the interior of the heating tube filling material.
  • a ceramic ring such as a solid sintered ceramic ring of an electrically insulating ceramic, for example hexagonal boron nitride, seen in the opening of the glow tube in the axial direction in front of the sealing element, ie the deformable steatite be used.
  • an axial pressing force can be exerted on the entire end face of the steatite ring.
  • the flange on the opening of the heating tube presses axially on the firmly sintered ceramic ring and this in turn pushes with its end face on the adjacent end face of the deformable Steatitrings and thereby support the formation of the sealing element made of steatite within the heating tube.
  • a variant of the axial press properties further favoring is to position the deformable steatite ring as a preform in turn between two firmly sintered pressure rings made of ceramic.
  • the adjoining the filling material inside the radiator ceramic ring may rest against its support on the heating tube, which is suitably formed by a, for example, introduced in the heating tube, circumferentially formed bead. This is preferably introduced after the radial compression of the heating tube and before the beading of the frontal opening of the heating tube. This can be done for example by rolling or other non-cutting manufacturing processes.
  • the method according to the invention is characterized in that the sealing element of steatite in the form of the deformable steatite ring is arranged on the connecting bolt in the region of the sealing section, and that subsequently the deformable steatite ring is compressed in the sealing section between heating tube and connecting bolt.
  • the radial force for pressing the steatite between heating tube and terminal bolt is generated by the heating tube undergoes a reduction in diameter at least in the region of the sealing portion by swaging.
  • An additional axial force for pressing the steatite between heating tube and terminal bolt is achieved by an additional axial pressing force is generated by a bead (28) at an end opening (25) of the heating tube (12), so that the deformable steatite ring by means of at least one pressure ring (34 , 38) is additionally pressed in the axial direction. Furthermore, the deformable steatite ring can be pressed axially between two pressure rings, wherein the one pressure ring is pressed against a peripheral bead and / or against a filling material.
  • a heating device which in the present embodiments is a glow plug for a compression ignition internal combustion engine, comprises a heating element 10 which is formed by a metallic heating tube 12, in which at least one electrical resistance heater in the form of a heating coil 22 is arranged.
  • the heating tube in the present glow plug is referred to below as the glow tube 12.
  • the radiator 10 is inserted into a housing, not shown.
  • a glow plug such glow plugs are also referred to, which additionally contain a functional element, such as a sensor for receiving a combustion chamber pressure.
  • An inner jacket of the glow tube 12 is identified by reference numeral 14.
  • the interior of the glow tube 12 of the radiator 10 is filled with a filling material 20, which is, for example, a good thermal conductivity, ceramic insulating powder.
  • a substantially cylindrically shaped connecting bolt 24 is used at the one end for contacting the heating coil 22 and at the other end for connection to a positive terminal of a power supply for the electrical resistance heating of the heating coil 22.
  • the negative terminal of the power supply is via the metallic glow tube 12 to the heating coil 22nd guided, wherein the heating coil 22 is contacted at the top of the glow tube 12 in the interior with the glow tube 12.
  • FIG. 1 there is a sealing element 26, which is made essentially of the ceramic material steatite, between the lateral surface of the substantially cylindrically shaped connecting bolt 24 and the inner shell 14 of the glow tube 12 of the radiator 10.
  • the sealing element 26 of steatite is substantially ring-shaped and surrounds the lateral surface of the connecting bolt 24 on the one hand and on the other hand with its lateral surface on the inner shell 14 of the glow tube 12 sealingly.
  • FIG. 1 is indicated that on the outer circumferential surface of the glow tube 12 of the radiator 10 along an axially extending sealing portion 16, a radial pressure force 18 is applied.
  • the radial pressing force 18 is applied uniformly over the entire circumference of the glow tube 12 of the radiator 10, so that the sealing element 26 made of steatite, which is a deformed during pressing by means of the radial force 18 steatite ring, a gas and liquid-tight seal between the glow tube 12th and the connecting bolt 24 is formed.
  • the sealing element 26 made of steatite is produced from a preformed and / or pre-sintered, deformable steatite ring as a preform, which is designed such that it decomposes again into its powder constituents during pressing to form the sealing element 26.
  • This is due to the radial pressure force 18, which is distributed uniformly along the outer circumference of the glow tube 12, as well as the flow properties of the deformable steatite ring.
  • an axial pressing force is exerted on the sealing element 26 made of steatite.
  • a flanging 28 is provided on the frontal opening 25 of the glow tube 12, from which the connecting bolt 24 for electrical contacting of the heating coil 22 protrudes.
  • the deformable steatite ring is pressed against the filling material 20 located in the interior of the glow tube 12 during the application of the radial pressing force 18 and a concomitant deformation in the direction of the interior space.
  • the ring-shaped sealing element 26 made of steatite is pressurized indirectly in the axial direction by the radial pressing force 18 both in the radial direction and by the flange 28, so that between the lateral surfaces of the Connecting bolt 24 and the sealing element 26, the steatite on the one hand and on the other hand between the outer surface of the annular sealing element 26 made of steatite and the inner shell 24 of the glow tube 12 forms an effective radiator seal.
  • a filling material 20 facing the end face of the annular sealing element 26 made of steatite is designated by reference numeral 32.
  • a first end face of the ring-shaped sealing element 26 made of steatite is indicated by reference numeral 30. This first end face 30 of the sealing element 26 made of steatite is acted upon by the flange 28 of the glow tube 12 and brings the axial pressing force on the annular formed sealing element 26 made of steatite.
  • the representation according to FIG. 2 is a further advantageous embodiment of the device according to the invention for sealing the radiator 10, in particular to take the glow plug.
  • FIG. 2 shows that the radiator 10 shown there also includes a glow tube 12, in the interior of the filling material 20, which is in particular is insulating powder, is added.
  • the filling material 20 of the connecting bolt 24 is inserted, which protrudes on the one hand with one end from the glow tube 12 of the radiator 10 and contacted with its opposite end face the heating coil 22 of the radiator 10.
  • the sealing element 26 is made of steatite whose first end face 30 presses against a first pressure ring 34 and against the first end face 30 assigning end face 36.
  • the first pressure ring 34 is arranged as a firmly sintered body made of an electrically insulating ceramic, such as hexagonal boron nitride, in the interior of the glow tube 12 and in the axial direction placed with respect to the opening 25 axially in front of the ring-shaped sealing element 26 made of steatite.
  • the flange 28 at the front-side opening 25 of the glow tube 12 presses in the axial direction seen on the first pressure ring 34, whereas this presses with its end face 36 on the entire, adjacent to this first end face 30 of the deformable Steatitrings.
  • composite of the sealing element 26 made of steatite and the at least one pressure ring 34 is formed upon application of the radial force 18 along the seal portion 16 on the inner shell 14 of the glow tube 12, a sealing compound whose sealing effect is improved by the axial pressing force.
  • FIG. 3 is a further, third advantageous embodiment of the present invention proposed heater to remove.
  • FIG. 3 shows that in addition to the sealing element 26 of steatite and the in FIG. 2 shown first pressure ring 34 in the sealing portion 16, a further second pressure ring 38 is arranged.
  • the composite of the first pressure ring 34, the sealing element 26 made of steatite and said second pressure ring 38 is pressed by the formed on the front opening 25 of the glow tube flange 28, for example, against a circumferential bead 40.
  • the circumferential bead 40 is in the lateral surface of the glow tube 12 of the radiator 10, which is in particular a glow plug, rolled or rolled or produced on another non-cutting production.
  • the circumferential bead 40 protruding into the interior of the glow tube 12 serves as an axial stop for an end face of the second pressure ring 38, which is also made of an electrically insulating ceramic, such as hexagonal boron nitride.
  • the in the embodiment according to FIG. 3 shown arrangement, ie, the composite of the first pressure ring 34, the sealing element 26 made of steatite and the second pressure ring 38 represents a variant in which the force acting in the axial direction of the pressing force is further enhanced.
  • the sealing element 26 made of steatite is positioned between the two firmly sintered ceramic pressure rings 34 and 38.
  • the adjacent to the filling material 20 second pressure ring 38 is located on the peripheral bead 40th the glow tube 12, which is preferably introduced after the radial compression of the glow tube 12 by means of the radial compression force 18 and before generating the flange 28 at the opening of the glow tube 12 in the lateral surface of the glow tube 12.
  • the second pressure ring 38 presses without an abutment on a bead 40 directly to the filler 20.
  • sealing element 26 made of steatite which has a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than, for example, hexagonal boron nitride, thereby acts at higher temperatures between the fixed sintered pressure rings 34 and 38 produced an increased axial pressing force, which further improves the sealing effect of the sealing element 26 made of steatite.
  • the sealing element 26 made of steatite, consists of the main component soapstone (Mg 3 Si 4 O 10 (OH) 2 ), a natural magnesium silicate and of additions of clay and feldspar or barium carbonate.
  • first and second pressure rings 34 and 38 are firmly sintered ceramic rings and are preferably made of hexagonal boron nitride.
  • a preformed and / or pre-sintered steatite ring preformed by pressing is arranged as a preform on the connecting bolt 24 in the region of the sealing section 16. Subsequently, the deformable steatite ring in the sealing portion 16 between the glow tube 12 and connecting bolt 24 is pressed. The radial force for compressing the deformable steatite ring between glow tube 12 and connecting bolt 24 is generated by the glow tube 12 undergoes a reduction in diameter at least in the region of the sealing portion 16 by swaging.
  • An additional axial force for compressing the deformable steatite ring between glow tube 12 and connecting bolt 24 is achieved by the deformable steatite ring and at least one pressure ring by a bead on the frontal opening 25 of the glow tube 12 against the peripheral bead 40 and / or against the filling material 20 within the Glow tube 12 is pressed.

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DE400854C (de) * 1923-06-28 1924-08-22 Robert Bosch A G Gluehdrahtzuendkerze fuer Rohoel- und aehnliche Motoren
FR1309277A (fr) * 1961-09-26 1962-11-16 C C P E Circuits Chauffants Pa Dispositif de chauffage électrique
EP0229677A2 (fr) * 1983-04-08 1987-07-22 Wellman Thermal Systems Corporation Bougie à incandescence
DE19532090A1 (de) 1995-08-30 1997-03-06 Bosch Gmbh Robert Dichtung für ein Sensorelement eines Gassensors
EP1780468A2 (fr) * 2005-10-28 2007-05-02 Beru AG Barre chauffante avec capteur de pression notamment pour une bougie de préchauffage
DE102006008350A1 (de) * 2006-02-21 2007-08-30 Robert Bosch Gmbh Druckmesseinrichtung
US20100133253A1 (en) 2008-10-23 2010-06-03 Walker Jr William J Glow plug with improved seal, heater probe assembly therefor and method of construction thereof

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DE400854C (de) * 1923-06-28 1924-08-22 Robert Bosch A G Gluehdrahtzuendkerze fuer Rohoel- und aehnliche Motoren
FR1309277A (fr) * 1961-09-26 1962-11-16 C C P E Circuits Chauffants Pa Dispositif de chauffage électrique
EP0229677A2 (fr) * 1983-04-08 1987-07-22 Wellman Thermal Systems Corporation Bougie à incandescence
DE19532090A1 (de) 1995-08-30 1997-03-06 Bosch Gmbh Robert Dichtung für ein Sensorelement eines Gassensors
EP1780468A2 (fr) * 2005-10-28 2007-05-02 Beru AG Barre chauffante avec capteur de pression notamment pour une bougie de préchauffage
DE102006008350A1 (de) * 2006-02-21 2007-08-30 Robert Bosch Gmbh Druckmesseinrichtung
US20100133253A1 (en) 2008-10-23 2010-06-03 Walker Jr William J Glow plug with improved seal, heater probe assembly therefor and method of construction thereof

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