Patent ID: 7044106

Claim:
A suction air negative pressure detecting apparatus of a throttle body in which a pressure sensor is arranged within a sensor case, an output signal from the pressure sensor is output via a terminal protruding to an inner side of a connector portion of the sensor case, a cylinder wall portion of said sensor case is arranged so as to be rotatably inserted to a cylinder boss portion protruding from the throttle body and the sensor case is pressure fixed by a pressure plate screwed to the throttle body, wherein a positioning convex portion formed in a regular polygonal shape is provided in an upper bottom portion of the sensor case, a positioning concave portion having apex angle concave portions at a multiple number of apex angle convex portions of the regular polygon forming said positioning convex portion is provided in the pressure plate, said pressure plate is arranged on the upper bottom portion of the sensor case, the positioning concave hole is arranged so as to be engaged with the positioning convex portion of the sensor case, and the pressure plate is fixed by screw to the throttle body.