Patent attributes
A combustion pressure sensor for detecting a combustion pressure in a combustion chamber of an engine is disclosed as having a housing mounted to an engine head in a gastight structure, a pressure sensor carried on the housing at a base end portion thereof, a transfer member having a pressure-receiving portion exposed to the combustion chamber to be axially slidable in the housing to transfer a combustion pressure from the combustion chamber to the pressure sensor, and a seal member disposed between the pressure-receiving portion of the transfer member and the housing in a gastight sealing structure to block an intrusion of combustion gas from the combustion chamber into the housing. The seal member includes a flexible portion with low rigidity that can stretch and absorb load acting on the pressure sensor when mounting the housing onto an engine cylinder.
