Abstract: The invention is based on a sliding valve (10) having a sliding sleeve (12) which is axially displaceable in a control cylinder (13) and which controls, with at least one control face (23) on its outer periphery, at least one control opening (17, 18) in the control cylinder (13) out. It is proposed that the control face (23) is radially elastically flexible in the direction of the control cylinder (13).

Abstract: An injector for a fuel injection system is provided with an injector housing in which a piezoelectric stack is located and with a valve housing connected with the injector housing in which a valve closing device with a jet needle is displaceably located. The valve closing device can be actuated by the piezoelectric stack. The valve closing device can be reset by a return device. A hydraulic following amplifier is located between the piezoelectric stack and the jet needle of the valve closing device. The amplifier has a displacement piston actuated by the piezoelectric stack. A control piston located downstream from the displacement piston and increases the displacement travel. A working piston that actuates the jet needle and increases the actuating force.

Abstract: In a valve for the dosed discharge of fluids particularly a fuel injection valve for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, the valve includes in an valve housing at the front end of an injector housing a valve structure at a fluid discharge end of the valve housing and a stack of piezo elements disposed in the opposite end of the injector housing and a high pressure fluid passages leads to the fluid discharge end which is isolated from the area in which the stack of piezo elements is disposed and which is in communication with a low pressure drain passage such that the piezo elements are not exposed to the high pressure fluid. Isolation is obtained by a compensation cylinder movably disposed in an annular space between, and in sealing relationship with, the valve housing, the piezo stack being enclosed in a piezo guide tube which is sealingly connected to the valve housing.

Abstract: An electromagnetically actuated, quick-action hydraulic switching valve has a pressure-balanced seating valve arrangement and an electromagnetic actuator means. The electromagnetic actuator means comprises a core and an armature for actuating the valve, the core and the armature defining a working air gap. The armature is part of the core and is in the form of a sleeve member mounted slidably on a guide pin which is pressed in position in the housing. The seating valve arrangement is formed by an annular edge defined by a central bore in the armature on the one hand and on the other hand, either a taper surface on the guide pin or a ball with a bore therethrough. Using the same armature, the valve can be designed to operate either as a valve which is open in the currentless condition or as a valve which is closed in the currentless condition.