Abstract: A fuel injector (1) for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines and a method of manufacturing same are described. The fuel injector (1) includes a valve seat body (5) into which a valve seat face (6) is introduced, which cooperates with a valve closing body (4) to form a sealing seat, and a nozzle body (2) to which the valve seat body (5) is fixedly connected. The valve seat body (5) is insertable into the interior of the nozzle body (2) and on its downstream side it has a partially spherical outside geometry, which rests on a bearing surface (40) of a seat body recess (38) in the nozzle body (2). Valve seat body (5) is mounted so it can rotate relative to the nozzle body (2) on the bearing surface (40) until its position is finally secured, and it may be aligned by a centering mandrel.

Abstract: A fuel injector (1), especially an injector for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, includes a first solenoid coil (5), which cooperates with the first armature (9), a valve needle (13) in a force-locking connection with the first armature (9) for actuating a valve-closure member (14), which together with a valve seat surface (15) forms a sealing seat, and a second solenoid coil (6). In this context, the first armature (9) is acted upon in a closing direction by a first resetting spring (11). A second armature (10) cooperates with the second solenoid coil (6) such that, when the first solenoid coil (5) and the second solenoid coil (6) are supplied with current, a limit stop body (18) that is connected with the valve needle (13) strikes against the second armature (10).

Abstract: A fuel injector (1), especially a fuel injector (1) for injection systems of internal combustion engines, includes a solenoid which works together with an armature and a valve needle (15) to actuate a valve-closure member (22), which together with a valve-seat surface (24) forms a sealing seat. A longitudinal axis (28) of the valve needle (15) is inclined by a prescribed angle (&ggr;) with respect to a longitudinal axis (29) of a valve housing (11). The armature is linked with an actuating body (12) whose longitudinal axis (29) is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis (28) of the valve needle (15) and which acts on the valve needle (15) through a hydraulic device (13).

Abstract: A fuel injector (1), especially for the direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having externally supplied ignition, comprising a swirl disk (35) having swirl channels (36) and a central recess (38), and having a guide compensator (41) inserted into the recess (38) whose center axis is able to be inclined relative to the center axis of the fuel injector (1) and which has a sealing fit with respect to the valve needle (3). Formed by a sealing-seat surface (39), disposed in the swirl disk (35), and a radial widening (40) of the guide compensator (41) is a sealing seat which tolerates an excursion of the center axis, preventing a swirl-free leakage flow in the same manner as the sealing fit between the valve needle (3) and the guide compensator (41).

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for metering fuel with a fuel injector (1), in particular an injector for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines. The fuel injector has an actuator (14) and a valve closing body (6) which can be activated by the actuator (14) to produce a valve stroke, and the valve closing body cooperates with a valve seat face (5) to form a sealing seat. The valve closing body (6) and/or valve seat face (5) has at least one swirl element (27; 41) to produce a swirling flow. In order to vary the fuel distribution of fuel injected by the fuel injector (1), the valve stroke triggered by the actuator (14) has a variable opening speed, whereby a transition from an at least approximately swirl-free preliminary flow of the injected fuel to a swirling flow of the injected fuel is produced by varying the opening speed.

Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular, an injector for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, having an actuator, which cooperates with a valve needle (34, 51, 73), has a first valve closure member (35, 52) that is arranged on the valve needle (34, 51, 73), the valve closure member cooperating with a first valve seat surface (33, 53) on a valve body (32, 50) forming a first sealing seat (36, 54). A second valve closure member (38, 55, 75) cooperates with a second valve seat surface (40, 56) in the valve seat body (32, 50) forming a second sealing seat (41, 57). The valve needle (34, 51, 73), or the first valve closure member (35, 52), has a limit stop, against which, after a partial stroke (h1) of the valve needle (34, 51, 73), a counter limit stop of the second valve closure member (38, 55, 75) strikes, lifting the second valve closure member (38, 55, 75) from the second sealing seat (41, 57) in response to a further stroke of the valve needle (34, 51, 73).

Abstract: A fuel injector (1) for fuel injection systems in internal combustion engines has a magnet coil (10), an armature (20) that is acted upon in a closing direction by a restoring spring (23), and a valve needle (3) that is non-positively engaged with armature (20) for actuating a valve closing body (4), which together with a valve seat surface (6) forms a sealing seat, armature (20) with an inlet-side armature surface (34) striking internal pole (13). A choke point (36) is provided on inlet-side armature surface (34), and is formed by an annular, stepped prominence (35) on inlet-side armature surface (34).

Abstract: A fuel injector (1) for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines has a solenoid (10), a valve needle (3) pressed in the closing direction by a return spring (23) to activate a valve closing member (4), which together with a valve seat surface (5) forms a sealing seat, and an armature (20) in friction-locking connection with a valve needle (3). A first guide sleeve (35) and a second guide sleeve (36) are connected to the valve needle (3). The armature (20) has radial play with respect to the valve needle (3) as a result of the central opening (34), the diameter of which is greater than the diameter of the valve needle (3).

Abstract: A fuel injector, particularly an injector for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines, has a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator and a valve-closure member which is operable by the actuator with the aid of a valve needle and which cooperates with a valve-seat surface to form a sealing seat. The actuator, at a first end face, abuts against a supporting member that has at least one cut-out through which at least one segment of an actuating sleeve projects. The actuating sleeve, at a first end, acts upon the valve needle, and at a second end, embraces the actuator at a second end face of the actuator facing away from the first end face of the actuator.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve, which may be inserted into a locator bore of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, has a sealing ring located peripherally around the fuel injection valve in the locator bore. The sealing ring has a contact surface, having the shape of a spherical segment, toward the fuel injection valve, which presses against a corresponding counter surface, having the shape of a spherical segment, of the fuel injection valve.

Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular an injector for fuel injection devices in internal combustion engines has a valve needle (5) with a valve-closure member (6) which cooperates with a valve seat surface (8) in a valve seat body (22) to form a sealing seat (9), in which the valve seat body (22) has a plurality of injection orifices (4, 15, 18) that are isolated from the fuel supply by sealing seat (9). The valve-closure member (6) has a pressure element (11) in a recess (10) facing the valve seat body (22), which is pre-tensioned against the valve seat body (22) by a spring (12) which is supported on the valve-closure member (6) and presses a disc spring (13) against the valve seat body (22), in such manner that the disc spring (13) covers at least one of the injection orifices (15), and the spring element (13) uncovers this injection orifice (15) when the tension exerted by the pressure element (11) is removed.

Abstract: A fuel injector (1), particularly an injection valve for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines, has a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator (16) that is arranged in a valve housing (2) and is sealed off from a fuel by an actuator housing (15), and a valve-closure member (7) which is operable by the actuator (16) with the aid of a valve needle (6) and which cooperates with a valve-seat surface (5) to form a sealing seat. The valve housing (2) and the actuator housing (15) have cut-outs (38, 39) adjoining one another, and the valve housing (2) is joined to the actuator housing (15) in an edge area of the cut-outs (38, 39). In this manner, a feed-through opening (41) is formed which is sealed off from the fuel. The feed-through opening (41) is filled with a filler element (43) by which at least one electrical supply line (37) of the actuator (16) is fixed in position in the feed-through opening (41).

Abstract: A fuel injector, especially an injector for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines, includes a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator arranged in an actuator space of a valve housing of the fuel injector, the actuator space being sealed from a fuel by a seal. A valve-closure member, which can be actuated by the actuator and interacts with a valve seat to form a sealed seat, assumes the actual valve operation. The seal has a sealing member and a sealing element. The sealing element is joined to the sealing member by a first circumferential welded seam, is elastically deformable and band-shaped, and is joined to the valve housing by a second circumferential welded seam.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve for a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engines includes a valve closing body cooperating with a valve seat body to form a sealing seat, and a piezoelectric actuator for actuating the valve closing body. The piezoelectric actuator includes piezo layers and one or more temperature compensation layers. The temperature compensation layers have a temperature expansion coefficient having an operational sign opposite the sign of the temperature expansion coefficient of the piezo layers.

Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular an injection valve for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, has a piezoelectric actuator or magnetostrictive actuator sealed against a fuel by an actuator seal and it has a valve closing body actuatable by the actuator and working together with a valve seat face to form a tight seat. The actuator seal includes a sealing element on the inlet end and a sealing element on the injection end, both designed to be elastically deformable and frictionally engaged with an actuating sleeve. The actuator acts on valve closing body by way of the actuating sleeve, thus at least partially compensating the forces generated by the fuel pressure and acting on the actuator by way of the actuating sleeve.

Abstract: A method and a device for controlling a controller having a capacitive element. An ohmic resistor is connected in parallel to the capacitive element. The value of the ohmic resistor is determined at certain times, and then the type and/or temperature of the capacitive element is deduced on the basis of the value of the resistor.

Abstract: A tubular valve housing includes a guide body for pressure fluid that is disposed between a valve body having a hollow-conical valve seat and a chamber of the valve housing, in which actuating means of the valve are received in the chamber. The guide body is penetrated by a closing body of the valve which divides the chamber from an annular conduit. The annular conduit carries the pressure fluid and communicates with the valve seat and has circumferential outlet openings of the valve housing. The guide body is braced on the valve body, with a face end contacting the valve body, and has guide conduits, fitting over an outline of the valve seat, which on the outlet side discharge into the annular conduit. The face end of the closing body, which cooperates with the valve seat, is a spherical portion that makes a transition with sharp edges to the cylindrical shaft of the closing body.

Abstract: A method and a device for controlling a controller having a capacitive element. An ohmic resistor is connected in parallel to the capacitive element. The value of the ohmic resistor is determined at certain times, and then the type and/or temperature of the capacitive element is deduced on the basis of the value of the resistor.

Abstract: A fuel injector has an actuator for generating a lifting movement and a lift translator filled with a hydraulic medium and deformable in the lifting direction, for transferring the lifting movement of the actuator to a valve needle, provision being made for a compensating chamber for the hydraulic medium, the compensating chamber being connected to an interior space of the lift translator via a throttle opening and enclosed by an elastic casing. Thus, temperature-related quasistatic deformations of actuator, lift translator, and/or valve needle can be compensated for by an exchange of the hydraulic medium between the interior space of the lift translator and the compensating chamber, while the comparatively fast lifting movements of the actuator are transmitted to the valve needle essentially without damping.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulically actuated cutoff valve which is provided as an intake valve for switching between a master cylinder and an intake side of a feed pump of a slip-controlled vehicle brake system. The invention sets forth that the cutoff valve is embodied with a valve closing body that has a valve tappet which passes through an annular actuating element and is in engagement with a rocker element embodied as a cup spring, which rests on an annular pivot bearing. If the actuating element is acted upon by pressure, it presses down an outer edge of the rocker element, and as a result a middle of the actuating element executes a pivoting motion in the opposite direction that closes the cutoff valve. The invention has the advantage of an economical cutoff valve that has only a small number of components, and the invention can be used in a hydraulic vehicle brake system.