Abstract: A spark plug having a resistor containing SiO2 and B2O3. The glass is a phase-separated glass having aggregate phase and an intervening phase. In a cross section of the resistor, when a plurality of imaginary lines perpendicular to an axial line CL1 are drawn at intervals of 0.1 mm in the direction of the axial line CL1, the number of aggregate phase located on each of the imaginary lines is determined, and the average number of aggregate phase per imaginary line is determined for each of a plurality of line groups each comprised of five consecutive imaginary lines, there are three or more consecutive line groups which satisfy the condition that the average number of aggregate phase per imaginary line is larger, by 5 or more, than the minimum average number of aggregate phase per imaginary line among the plurality of line groups.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connection terminal (1) which includes terminal members (2, 3) having cylindrical wire connecting parts (21, 31) to which conductors of electric wires are inserted and the conductors are electrically connected, and flat plate shaped attaching parts (22, 32) continuous to the wire connecting parts.

Abstract: A spark plug having an insulator that includes a first portion which accommodates a front end of the metallic terminal. A portion of the metallic terminal has a roughened surface portion with a Vickers hardness of 200 Hv or greater and 320 Hv or smaller. A first ratio of an outside diameter of the roughened surface corresponding to at least a part of the first portion of the insulator to the first bore diameter of the insulator is 0.90 or greater. A second ratio of the first bore diameter to the second bore diameter of the insulator is 0.80 or greater and 0.98 or smaller.

Abstract: A spark plug including an insulator having an axial hole, a center electrode held at one end side and a terminal electrode held at the other end side of the axial hole, an electrical connection portion electrically connecting the center electrode and the terminal electrode inside the axial hole, wherein the electrical connection portion includes a conductor including a ceramic phase and a metal wire having a spiral structure portion, wherein the metal wire has a wire diameter of 0.1 mm or greater and 0.5 mm or smaller, and wherein the spiral structure portion of the metal wire is configured such that an outer diameter thereof is 1.0 mm or greater and 3 mm or smaller, a pitch thereof is 0.3 mm or greater and 1 mm or smaller, and a height thereof is 8 mm or greater and 30 mm or smaller.

Abstract: A spark plug including an insulator having an axial hole, a center electrode held at one end side and a terminal electrode held at the other end side of the axial hole, an electrical connection portion electrically connecting the center electrode and the terminal electrode inside the axial hole, wherein the electrical connection portion includes a conductor including a ceramic phase and a metal wire having a spiral structure portion, wherein the metal wire has a wire diameter of 0.1 mm or greater and 0.5 mm or smaller, and wherein the spiral structure portion of the metal wire is configured such that an outer diameter thereof is 1.0 mm or greater and 3 mm or smaller, a pitch thereof is 0.3 mm or greater and 1 mm or smaller, and a height thereof is 8 mm or greater and 30 mm or smaller.

Abstract: A spark plug having an insulator with a through hole formed therein in a direction of an axis, a center electrode disposed in a front side of the through hole, a metal terminal disposed in a rear side of the through hole, an electrical connection part arranged in the through hole to establish electrical connection between the center electrode and the metal terminal and a metal shell holding therein the insulator. The electrical connection part has a conductor including a conductive material and at least one kind of Fe-containing oxide material. The Fe-containing oxide material contains at least FeO. The conductor satisfies a relationship of 0.06?S1/(S1+S2)?0.46 where, in a cross section taken along the axis, S1 is an area occupied by the conductive material and S2 is an area occupied by the Fe-containing oxide material.

Abstract: A spark plug includes an insulator with an axial through hole, a center electrode disposed in a front side of the through hole and a metal terminal disposed in a rear side of the through hole. The spark plug further includes a front conductive glass seal layer, a first resistor, a rear conductive glass seal layer, a seal contact member, a second resistor and a conductive elastic material arranged, in this order from the front to the rear, between the center electrode and the metal terminal within the through hole. The first resistor is formed containing at least a conductive material and a glass material. The second resistor is formed as a wire wound resistor having 30 or more turns of wire.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal fitting that includes a first terminal fitting having a first electric wire holding section for holding an electric wire, a first attachment section to be attached to an attachment target object, and a protruding section provided on the first attachment section, and a second terminal fitting piece having a second electric wire holding section for holding an electric wire, a second attachment section to be attached to the attachment target object, and a hole section provided in the second attachment section, the first attachment section and the second attachment section being overlapped with each other in a state that the protruding section is inserted into the hole section.

Abstract: A spark plug with both improved load life performance and improved radio-noise-preventing property, wherein the spark plug has a resistor containing a Ti component. The spark plug includes a circular columnar insulator having a through hole; a center electrode; a terminal shell; and a resistor provided in the through hole and between the terminal shell and the center electrode. The resistor contains glass, a Ti component, a Zr component, and a non-metallic electrically conductive material.

Abstract: A spark plug having excellent load life performance, and a method of manufacturing the same, the spark plug having a connecting portion which electrically connects a center electrode and a metallic terminal within the axial hole of an insulator, the connecting portion including a resistor whose porosity is 5.0% or less.

Abstract: Provided with a first connector part to connect a first cable, a second connector part to connect a second cable, and to fit with a first connector part, thereby ensuring electrical connection between a first cable and a second cable, and a housing to hold a second connector part rotatably around an axial direction of a second cable.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connection terminal (1) which includes terminal members (2, 3) having cylindrical wire connecting parts (21, 31) to which conductors of electric wires are inserted and the conductors are electrically connected, and flat plate shaped attaching parts (22, 32) continuous to the wire connecting parts.

Abstract: A spark plug, comprised of: an insulator having an axial bore extending in the direction of an axis, a first inner circumferential surface extending at a forward side of the axial bore, a second inner circumferential surface extending at a rear side of the axial bore and having a diameter greater than that of the first inner circumferential surface, and a ledge connecting the first inner circumferential surface and the second inner circumferential surface; a center electrode having a head supported by the ledge and extending in a space surrounded by the second inner circumferential surface, and a circular columnar leg extending continuously from the forward end of the head in a space surrounded by the first inner circumferential surface; and a seal material for holding the center electrode in the axial bore.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connection terminal (1) which includes terminal members (2, 3) having cylindrical wire connecting parts (21, 31) to which conductors of electric wires are inserted and the conductors are electrically connected, and flat plate shaped attaching parts (22, 32) continuous to the wire connecting parts.

Abstract: A spark plug having a resistor containing SiO2 and B2O3. The glass is a phase-separated glass having aggregate phase and an intervening phase. In a cross section of the resistor, when a plurality of imaginary lines perpendicular to an axial line CL1 are drawn at intervals of 0.1 mm in the direction of the axial line CL1, the number of aggregate phase located on each of the imaginary lines is determined, and the average number of aggregate phase per imaginary line is determined for each of a plurality of line groups each comprised of five consecutive imaginary lines, there are three or more consecutive line groups which satisfy the condition that the average number of aggregate phase per imaginary line is larger, by 5 or more, than the minimum average number of aggregate phase per imaginary line among the plurality of line groups.

Abstract: A spark plug includes an insulator having an axial hole, a metal terminal member having an insert portion and a depression formation zone existing on the insert portion and having depressions, and a metallic shell. The spark plug satisfies the following conditions: (1) the insert portion has a length H of 35 mm or more; (2) the depression formation zone has a length F of 13 mm or more; (3) the insert portion has a smooth surface zone on its outer circumferential surface; (4) the ratio (A/B) between diameter A of a forward end of the insert portion and inside diameter B of the insulator measured at the forward end satisfies the relational expression 0.9?A/B?0.98; and (5) Vickers hardness of the insert portion measured at the center of a cross section of the insert portion is 150 Hv or more to 350 Hv or less.

Abstract: A spark plug includes an insulator, a terminal electrode, a center electrode, a resistor, and a glass seal layer. The terminal electrode has: a recess part opened to the front end side and having a depth in a center axis direction of the terminal electrode; and a flat part neighboring the recess part at its outer circumference side. The relationship 0.52?B/A?0.91 is satisfied, wherein A (mm2) represents an area of a region surrounded by an outline of an outer circumference surface of the terminal electrode, and B (mm2) which represents an area of a region of the terminal electrode surrounded by an outline of an inner surface of the recess part, in a cross section orthogonal to the center axis and located 0.1 mm away from a front end along the center axis to the rear end side.

Abstract: A spark plug includes an insulator, a terminal electrode, a center electrode, a resistor, and a glass seal layer. The terminal electrode has: a recess part opened to the front end side and having a depth in a center axis direction of the terminal electrode; and a flat part neighboring the recess part at its outer circumference side. The relationship 0.52?B/A?0.91 is satisfied, wherein A (mm2) represents an area of a region surrounded by an outline of an outer circumference surface of the terminal electrode, and B (mm2) which represents an area of a region of the terminal electrode surrounded by an outline of an inner surface of the recess part, in a cross section orthogonal to the center axis and located 0.1 mm away from a front end along the center axis to the rear end side.

Abstract: A spark plug includes an insulator having an axial hole, a metal terminal member having an insert portion and a depression formation zone existing on the insert portion and having depressions, and a metallic shell. The spark plug satisfies the following conditions: (1) the insert portion has a length H of 35 mm or more; (2) the depression formation zone has a length F of 13 mm or more; (3) the insert portion has a smooth surface zone on its outer circumferential surface; (4) the ratio (A/B) between diameter A of a forward end of the insert portion and inside diameter B of the insulator measured at the forward end satisfies the relational expression 0.9?A/B?0.98; and (5) Vickers hardness of the insert portion measured at the center of a cross section of the insert portion is 150 Hv or more to 350 Hv or less.

Abstract: A spark plug includes an insulator having an axial hole, a first inner circumferential surface, a second inner circumferential surface whose diameter is greater than that of the first inner circumferential surface, and a ledge portion connecting the first and the second inner circumferential surfaces. The spark plug also includes a center electrode having a large-diameter portion, a projection portion, and a circular columnar leg portion that projects into a space surrounded by the first inner circumferential surface. The spark plug includes a seal portion which fixes the center electrode within the axial hole. When C<A, A?C?B?A, where A represents a diameter of an imaginary cylinder having the minimum diameter required for surrounding the projection portion, B represents a maximum diameter of the large-diameter portion, and C represents an average diameter of the leg portion present in the space surrounded by the first inner circumferential surface.