Multiple Angular Passages Through Disc Patents (Class 239/497)
  • Patent number: 8915307
    Abstract: A nozzle for a fire suppression system has a bonnet and a deflector base. An inlet port extends through the bonnet along the axis of symmetry of the bonnet. The inlet port receives an outlet end of a fire suppression delivery pipe to mount the bonnet to the pipe. The bonnet has a frustoconical surface which extends radially outward and downward from the inlet port. The deflector base is secured to and co-axially aligned with the bonnet at a predetermined distance to create a flow passageway therebetween. The flow passageway imparts a down angle to a suppressant flow discharging from the nozzle to better disperse the suppressant within the fire zone. A discharge port at the circumferential edge of the bonnet and deflector base constricts the suppressant flow to atomize the droplets of liquid suppressant discharged into the fire zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: UTC Fire & Security Corporation
    Inventors: Muhidin Lelic, Giuliano Amantini, May L. Corn, Robert G. Dunster, Rob J. Lade, Ravi K. Madabhushi, Seth Sienkiewicz, Marios C. Soteriou
  • Patent number: 8662423
    Abstract: A nozzle for a fuel injector, in particular for a gas-turbine engine, is provided comprising a planar conductive electrode with a sharp edge forming an aperture, an upper insulation layer above the electrode and a lower insulation layer below the electrode, both insulation layers having apertures, and a swirler arrangement for creating a swirling action in liquid fuel introduced into the nozzle. The axis of swirl is generally perpendicular to the plane of the electrode. In use, the swirling fuel passes through the aperture of the lower insulation layer, the aperture of the conductive electrode and the aperture of the upper insulation layer. As the fuel passes through the aperture of the electrode, the electrode charges the swirling fuel, so that the nozzle supplies charged droplets of atomized fuel from an outlet orifice. The swirler arrangement may be a radial or axial swirler arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Nigel Wilbraham
  • Patent number: 8616471
    Abstract: A multipoint injector ring includes a distributor ring defining a central axis and having a fluid inlet and a plurality of swirlers in fluid communication with the fluid inlet for imparting swirl on fluid from the fluid inlet. The swirlers are defined in a downstream surface of the distributor ring. An orifice ring is mounted to the distributor ring. The orifice ring defines a plurality of fluid outlets circumferentially spaced apart with respect to the central axis. Each fluid outlet is aligned downstream of a respective swirler for injecting swirling fluid from the swirlers in a downstream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Delavan Inc
    Inventor: John Earl Short
  • Publication number: 20130206870
    Abstract: In a fuel injection valve, a pipe line through which fuel is uniformly caused to flow is supposed from a flow quantity of fuel flowing into each of communication passages which is communicated between a corresponding one of a plurality of swirl generating chambers and an opening section of a valve seat member and, if a diameter of the pipe line is assumed to be da and a diameter of each of injection holes is assumed to be d0, da/d0 is set such that a spray angle of fuel injected from each of the injection holes provides a desired spray angle and the communication passages and the injection holes are designed such that at least one of fuel sprays injected from the respective injection holes is contacted on any other fuel sprays at a lower position than a liquid film part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
  • Patent number: 8262002
    Abstract: The pressure swirl atomizing nozzle for spraying a curable composition comprises an orifice piece (16), which defines a funnel-shaped cavity and an exit orifice (17), and an injector piece (18) which closing off the funnel-shaped cavity so that the funnel-shaped cavity forms a swirl chamber (19) between a front side of the injector piece (18) and the exit orifice (17). The injector piece (18) comprises at least two swirl ports (20) which end in the swirl chamber (19) for injecting the curable composition therein and for thereby imparting swirl to the curable composition. Compared to the sum of the smallest cross-sectional areas of the swirl ports (20), the side wall (24) of the swirl chamber (19) has a relatively small surface area which is however still large enough to distribute the curable composition so as to achieve a uniform spray pattern. By the reduced size of the swirl chamber (19), the curable composition can be atomized more efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Recticel Automobilsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Christophe Vermeire, Kristof Benoit
  • Patent number: 7886995
    Abstract: A spray nozzle mechanism capable of forming spray contents into fine particles. A channel setting core is fixedly placed in a space in a button body, between an output hole of a vertical path and a hole for discharging contents to the external space. Swirls in the same swirling direction are formed by upstream recessed paths continuous from the vertical path and downstream recessed paths continuous to the discharge hole. Also, the spray nozzle mechanism has ribs. The ribs move initial swirls created by the upstream recessed paths to the corresponding downstream recessed paths, where the initial swirls are moved in a state where they are separated as far as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Mitani Valve Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Togashi
  • Patent number: 7631820
    Abstract: A spray nozzle includes a body defining an inlet chamber and an outlet. An orifice disk, adjacent the outlet, has opposing surfaces, an inner sidewall extending between the opposing surfaces which defines an orifice, and a peripheral sidewall extending between the opposing surfaces for centering the orifice disk within the inlet chamber. A swirl disk, adjacent to the orifice disk, has opposing surfaces and a sidewall extending between the opposing surfaces. The sidewall of the swirl disk forms a periphery for centering the swirl disk, a hollow for creating a vortex adjacent to the orifice and an inlet for channeling fluid from the periphery to the hollow. A plug is fixed within the inlet chamber of the body for retaining the orifice and swirl disks as well as defining an annulus area in fluid communication with the inlet of the swirl disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Bete Fog Nozzle, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Bowman, Michael J. Mikaelian, Daniel T. deLesdernier, Ronald H. Emerson, Lincoln Soule, Matthew Bete, Douglas J. Dziadzio
  • Patent number: 7611080
    Abstract: A full cone liquid spray nozzle is provided. The spray nozzle includes a nozzle body having a discharge orifice at a downstream end and an inlet at an upstream end for connection to a liquid supply. A liquid flow passageway extends through the nozzle body communicating between the inlet and the discharge orifice. A vane is disposed in the liquid flow passageway upstream of the discharge orifice. The vane has a plurality of V-shaped passageways therein. Each V-shaped passageway extends inward at an angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the vane between an upstream face and downstream face of the vane. A whirl and mixing chamber defined by the liquid flow passageway is arranged between the vane and the discharge orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventors: Lesli Peterson, Christy Hofherr
  • Patent number: 7481383
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes an orifice disc. The orifice disc includes a peripheral portion, a central portion, and an orifice. The peripheral portion is with respect to a longitudinal axis and extends parallel to a base plane. The peripheral portion bounds the central portion. The central portion includes a facet that extends parallel to a plane that is oblique with respect to the base plane. The orifice penetrates the facet and extends along an orifice axis that is oblique with resect to the plane. As such, the orientation of the orifice with respect to the longitudinal axis is defined by a combination of (1) a first relationship of the plane with respect to the base plane, and (2) a second relationship of the orifice axis with respect to the plane. A method of forming a multi-facetted dimple for the orifice disc is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Michael Joseph
  • Patent number: 7344090
    Abstract: A fuel injector is described. The fuel injector includes an inlet, outlet, seat, closure member, and a metering orifice disc. The metering orifice disc is disposed between the seat and the outlet. The metering orifice disc includes an outer wall having a surface that defines first and second outer chords generally about the longitudinal axis A-A. The first outer chord intersects the second chord and has a length different than the length of the second outer chord. The metering orifice disc includes an inner wall having a surface that defines first and second inner chords. The first and second inner chords extend generally transverse to the longitudinal axis A-A. The first inner chord intersects the second inner chord. The first inner chord has a length different than the length of the second inner chord. Methods of atomization and targeting are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Hamid Sayar
  • Patent number: 7299997
    Abstract: A fuel injector is shown and described. The fuel injector includes an inlet, outlet, seat, closure member, and a metering orifice disc. The metering orifice disc is disposed between the seat and the outlet. The metering orifice disc includes a plurality of metering orifices disposed about the longitudinal axis and a flow channel to each metering orifice disc so that, when the inlet of the fuel injector is provided with a pressurized fluid over a range of pressure from 200 kiloPascals to 600 kiloPascals and the closure member is actuated to the first position, the metering orifice disc provides an atomized fluid having a Sauter-Mean-Diameter of less than 70 microns proximate the outlet of the fuel injector. A method of atomizing is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Hamid Sayar
  • Publication number: 20070241210
    Abstract: An atomizer spray plate including a body having an inlet surface and an exit surface, a swirl chamber within the body and adjacent to the inlet surface, an atomizer hole extending through the body from the swirl chamber to the exit surface, and a plurality of elongated protrusions upon the inlet surface extending radially from the swirl chamber, wherein the plurality of elongated protrusions define a plurality of venturi inlets to the swirl chamber between adjacent protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Edmund S. Schindler, Scott Lindemann, John Dale
  • Patent number: 7216821
    Abstract: A pressurized fluid handling nozzle has a body with a first end and a second end, a fluid conduit and a recess at the second end. The first end is configured for connection to a pressurized fluid source. The fluid conduit has an inlet at the first end and an outlet at the recess. The nozzle uses the Bernoulli effect for lifting a part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Mark Reece, Gerald A. Knorovsky, Danny O. MacCallum
  • Patent number: 7201329
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes an orifice disc. The orifice disc includes a peripheral portion, a central portion, and an orifice. The peripheral portion is with respect to a longitudinal axis and extends parallel to a base plane. The peripheral portion bounds the central portion. The central portion includes a facet that extends parallel to a plane that is oblique with respect to the base plane. The orifice penetrates the facet and extends along an orifice axis that is oblique with respect to the plane. As such, the orientation of the orifice with respect to the longitudinal axis is defined by a combination of (1) a first relationship of the plane with respect to the base plane, and (2) a second relationship of the orifice axis with respect to the plane. A method of forming a multi-facetted dimple for the orifice disc is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: J. Michael Joseph
  • Patent number: 7198201
    Abstract: A spray nozzle includes a body defining an inlet chamber and an outlet. An orifice disk, adjacent the outlet, has opposing surfaces, an inner sidewall extending between the opposing surfaces which defines an orifice, and a peripheral sidewall extending between the opposing surfaces for centering the orifice disk within the inlet chamber. A swirl disk, adjacent to the orifice disk, has opposing surfaces and a sidewall extending between the opposing surfaces. The sidewall of the swirl disk forms a periphery for centering the swirl disk, a hollow for creating a vortex adjacent to the orifice and an inlet for channeling fluid from the periphery to the hollow. A plug is fixed within the inlet chamber of the body for retaining the orifice and swirl disks as well as defining an annulus area in fluid communication with the inlet of the swirl disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Bete Fog Nozzle, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Bowman, Michael J. Mikaelian, Daniel T. deLesdernier, Ronald H. Emerson, Lincoln Soule, Matthew Bete, Douglas J. Dziadzio
  • Patent number: 7198207
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7185831
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7168637
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7163159
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a metering orifice disc. The metering orifice disc includes a peripheral portion, a central portion, and an orifice. The peripheral portion is with respect to a longitudinal axis and extends parallel to a base plane. The peripheral portion bounds the central portion. The central portion includes a facet that extends parallel to a plane that is oblique with respect to the base plane. The orifice penetrates the facet and extends along an orifice axis that is oblique with respect to the plane. As such, the orientation of the orifice with respect to the longitudinal axis is defined by a combination of (1) a first relationship of the plane with respect to the base plane, and (2) a second relationship of the orifice axis with respect to the plane. A method of forming a multi-facetted dimple for the metering orifice disc is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: J. Michael Joseph
  • Patent number: 7128282
    Abstract: Multiple injection holes are formed in an injection hole plate. Each injection hole penetrates the injection hole plate. The injection hole is formed with an inlet side opening and an outlet side opening. The outlet side opening is formed in the shape of a flattened rectangle having a major axis and a minor axis. Therefore, the fuel flowing into the injection hole through the inlet side opening is injected in the shape of a film from the outlet side opening. Thus, liquid film splitting is promoted, so atomization of the fuel is promoted. Since the multiple injection holes are formed in the injection hole plate, the shape of a great fuel spray, which is formed by combining fuel sprays injected from the respective injection holes, can be adjusted easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuya Okamoto, Nobuo Ota, Kouichi Mochizuki, Masuaki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 7093776
    Abstract: A director plate system for a fuel injector for use in an internal combustion engine. The system includes flow channels for directing the fuel stream radially inward toward the discharge holes. The cross-sectional area of the flow channels diminish inwardly, in the direction of flow, to accelerate the fuel stream. A swirl element, for imparting tangential velocities or eddies to a plurality of individual fuel streams, can be combined with the radially inward directed flow channels. The director plate system may be provided as individual plates in a stack or may be combined with each other and/or the valve seat in a variety of plate configurations to simplify the number of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, INC
    Inventor: Michael Schneider
  • Patent number: 7080796
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve has a nozzle having a valve seat formed along an inner wall of the nozzle. Injection holes are located on an outlet side of the valve seat. An outlet section, at which a fuel outlet of the injection hole is open, is provided to said nozzle on a side opposite to said valve seat. An enlargement section extends away from the valve seat while being gradually enlarged from an edge of said outlet section in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Yukio Tomiita
  • Patent number: 7051957
    Abstract: A nozzle for a low pressure fuel injector that improves the control and size of the spray angle, as well as enhances the atomization of the fuel delivered to a cylinder of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lakhi N. Goenka, Jeffrey Paul Mara, David Lee Porter, David Ling-Shun Hung, John Stefanski
  • Patent number: 7048202
    Abstract: A valve subassembly of a fuel injector that allows spray targeting and distribution of fuel to be configured using non-angled or straight orifice having an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the subassembly. Metering orifices are located about the longitudinal axis and defining a first virtual circle greater than a second virtual circle defined by a projection of the sealing surface onto the metering disc so that all of the metering orifices are disposed outside the second virtual circle. The projection of the sealing surface converges at a virtual apex disposed within the metering disc. At least one channel extends between a first end and second end. The first end is disposed at a first radius from the longitudinal axis and spaced at a first distance from the metering disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: John Edward Bierstaker, John S. Bright
  • Patent number: 6991188
    Abstract: In a fuel injection valve, a substantially arc-shaped chamfered portion in a substantially arc shape of cross section is formed on an edge of an inner wall portion of each opening end of a corresponding nozzle hole of a nozzle plate to further expand a whole diameter of an injection stream of fuel passed through a plurality of obliquely penetrated nozzle holes. In a manufacturing method for the nozzle plate, circulating a fluid mixed with an abrasive through each nozzle hole is carried out to polish opening ends of the respective nozzle holes which are faced against the external of the fuel injection valve in a form of substantially arc shape of cross section with the abrasive. Furthermore, grinding the respective major surfaces of a punched plate material which becomes the nozzle plate together with vicinities to the respective opening ends of the nozzle holes is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Masatoshi Yanase, Hiroaki Hirata, Hiroki Nakagane
  • Patent number: 6974095
    Abstract: A fuel injector has a chamber between a valve body and a plate in which a plurality of through holes are formed. The chamber has a diameter larger than that of an opening of the valve body. The through holes are opened at an outer chamber area shaded by the valve body are distanced from an outer wall of the chamber more than a diameter of the through hole. Fuel flowing along an inner inclined surface of the valve body turns to the through holes and flows into the through hole from all directions and collides with each other at inlets of the through hole. Therefore, injected fuel has a lot of turbulences and is finely atomized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori Harata, Yukio Sawada
  • Patent number: 6886758
    Abstract: A fuel injector having an arrangement to stabilize the temperature of its components within an engine cylinder in a direct injection application. The fuel injector includes a body, an armature, a needle, a swirl generator, and a seat. The body has an inlet portion, an outlet portion, a body passage, extending from the inlet portion to the outlet portion along a longitudinal axis of the fuel injector. The armature is located proximate the inlet portion of the body, and is operatively connected to the needle. The needle is provided with a substantially uniform cross-sectional area, and the body is selected to surround the needle and form a body passage that has an average cross-sectional area less than two times the substantially uniform cross-sectional area of the needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corp.
    Inventors: David P. Wieczorek, John Wesley Phillips
  • Publication number: 20040217204
    Abstract: There is provided a fuel injection valve in which nozzle holes are formed on a metering plate and fuel flowing on a face of the metering plate on the upstream side is injected outside of a face of the metering plate on the downstream side through the nozzle holes. The fuel injection valve includes a vortex flow generator means for changing a flow of fuel passing in each nozzle hole into a vortex flow, wherein the vortex flow generator means is provided on the upstream side of the metering plate. The vortex flow means is a vortex flow generator groove provided on an upper face of the metering plate and connected with a wall face of an entrance of the nozzle hole, and a main stream of fuel flowing in the groove is directed to a position shifted from the center of the nozzle hole. Alternatively, the vortex flow means is a protrusion formed on an upper face of the metering plate. A flow of fuel is changed into a vortex flow in the nozzle hole and injected from the nozzle hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Tomojiro Sugimoto, Keiso Takeda, Shigeo Furuno, Kimitaka Saito, Yasuhide Tani, Atsuya Okamoto, Takehiko Kato, Tatsushi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 6811097
    Abstract: A fuel injector, for example, for direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, having a valve-closure member, which forms a sealing seat together with a valve-seat surface constructed on a valve-seat member, and having a swirl disk with fuel passages, the swirl disk being constructed from a plurality of swirl elements, each of the swirl elements having the same number of fuel passages. The swirl elements are offset with respect to one another, so that the fuel passages at least partially overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Dantes, Detlef Nowak, Matthias Waldau
  • Publication number: 20040178287
    Abstract: Multiple injection holes are formed in an injection hole plate. Each injection hole penetrates the injection hole plate. The injection hole is formed with an inlet side opening and an outlet side opening. The outlet side opening is formed in the shape of a flattened rectangle having a major axis and a minor axis. Therefore, the fuel flowing into the injection hole through the inlet side opening is injected in the shape of a film from the outlet side opening. Thus, liquid film splitting is promoted, so atomization of the fuel is promoted. Since the multiple injection holes are formed in the injection hole plate, the shape of a great fuel spray, which is formed by combining fuel sprays injected from the respective injection holes, can be adjusted easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuya Okamoto, Nobuo Ota, Kouichi Mochizuki, Masuaki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 6783085
    Abstract: A fuel injector nozzle assembly includes an injector body including a valve seat with a supply passage through which fuel flows generally along a supply axis. A nozzle plate having a top surface and a bottom surface is mounted onto the valve seat. The top surface includes a recess formed therein whereby fuel flows into the recess from the supply passage. A plurality of swirl chambers are formed within the top surface, each having a conical orifice extending from the swirl chamber to the bottom surface of the nozzle plate. A plurality of channels interconnect each of the swirl chambers to the recess, wherein the channels meet the swirl chambers offset from a center of the swirl chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Min Xu
  • Patent number: 6764031
    Abstract: A fuel injector for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines has a valve needle (3) and, mechanically linked thereto, a valve closing body (4), which cooperates with a valve seat surface (6) disposed in a valve seat body (5) to form a sealing seat, and has a plurality of recesses (34), which are introduced in the valve seat body (5) downstream from the sealing seat. Situated downstream on the valve seat body (5) is a flow-through screen (31) in which, for each recess (34), at least one discharge orifice (7) is introduced, whose cross-section is smaller than that of the particular recess (34) and which is positioned such that its inlet cross-section is situated fully within the outlet cross-section of the particular recess (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Sebastian, Jens Pohlmann, Martin Maier, Guenter Dantes, Detlef Nowak, Joerg Heyse, Joerg Schlerfer
  • Patent number: 6719223
    Abstract: A nozzle plate is provided with annular step portions each located on the periphery of a nozzle opening rim on a valve seat side, which rises up towards the nozzle opening rim from the radial outside of the nozzle, to form a fuel flow which flows in reverse from the radial outside to collide at an incline with a fuel flow which flows directly into the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Unisia Jecs Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yukinawa, Masatoshi Yanase, Hiroaki Hirata
  • Publication number: 20040060538
    Abstract: Between respective injection holes 107 on the face of a plate member 111 in a fuel passage, grooves 201 are provided which run along the circumferential direction of the respective injection holes 107, and at the positions of the grooves 201 overflows 502 are formed, and further contracted flow portions 602 are formed in the injection holes 107, thus, the maximum flow velocity of fuel is increased at the injection hole outlet portions, thereby, a fuel injection valve and an internal combustion engine of which atomization performance near the injection holes is effectively enhanced are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Shigenori Togashi, Yoshio Okamoto, Makoto Yamakado, Masahiro Souma, Hiromasa Kubo
  • Patent number: 6705538
    Abstract: A two-medium spraying nozzle is provided with a mixing chamber arranged in a housing and with one connection duct respectively leading into this mixing chamber for the feeding of a gaseous and of a liquid medium. A mouthpiece is connected behind the mixing chamber, in which mouthpiece a rotationally symmetrical central outlet opening is provided. In the bore of the mouthpiece, a swirl insert is arranged, and the outlet opening has a diameter which corresponds to no more than half the diameter of the bore of the mouthpiece. Such a two-medium spraying nozzle is unsusceptible to clogging and is particularly suitable for atomizing low-viscosity fluids for the cooling of continuous-casting systems for the production of steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Lechler GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Albert Fecht, Ralf Hengstler
  • Patent number: 6668948
    Abstract: A jet nozzle is provided for drilling holes through the earth, such as drainholes around a well. The nozzle may include orifices for discharging fluid to drive the nozzle forward and includes a disk or other device having orifices to produce a swirling motion to fluid in the body of the nozzle. Swirling fluid is discharged from a front orifice and an extension is placed forward of the front orifice to confine the swirling fluid in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Buckman Jet Drilling, Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Buckman, Sr., Thomas L. Dotson, Michael D. McDaniels, Wendell S. Bell
  • Publication number: 20030127543
    Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular an injector for fuel injection systems in internal combustion engines, includes a valve needle (6) having a valve-closure member (7) which cooperates with a valve-seat surface (8) situated in valve-seat member (5) to form a sealing seat (9) and which has several injection orifices (4, 12) which are situated downstream from the sealing seat (9), and are sealed by sealing seat (9) against a fuel supply. A disk element (10) is arranged downstream from the sealing seat (9), the disk element (10) having at least one valve section (11), which changes its shape when the temperature changes. Valve section (11) is connected to a heating element (13) and is possibly covering an injection orifice (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Franz Rieger, Thomas Ludwig, Hans Schlembach, Gottlob Haag, Ulrich Brenner, Michael Huebel, Juergen Stein, Udo Sieber
  • Publication number: 20030116659
    Abstract: A fuel injector (1), in particular for direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, includes a valve-closure member (4) which forms a sealing seat together with a valve-seat surface (6) which is formed on a valve-seat member (5), and several injection orifices (7), each of which is connected with at least one spiral groove (37a) so that an outer edge (38) of the swirl grooves (37a) coincides in part with a circumferential edge (39) of the injection orifices (7) and the swirl grooves (37a) extend essentially perpendicular to a center line (41) of the injection orifice (7) associated with them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas Sebastian, Jens Pohlmann, Martin Maier, Guenter Dantes, Detlef Nowak, Joerg Heyse, Joerg Schlerfer
  • Patent number: 6561440
    Abstract: A spray nozzle particularly useful for directing a liquid coolant onto continuously cast metal shapes. The spray nozzle includes a nozzle body having a liquid flow passageway communicating with a discharge orifice and a vane disposed within the passageway upstream of the discharge orifice. The vane has a central orifice for creating an axial flow stream and a plurality of circumferentially spaced angled passages for tangentially directing a plurality of liquid flow streams which create liquid turbulence, breakdown and intermixing with the axial flow stream such that liquid emitted from the discharge orifice is adapted for more uniform cooling of a cast metal notwithstanding changes in liquid pressure commensurate with changes in the rate at which the metal is cast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.
    Inventor: Christy Hofherr
  • Patent number: 6244524
    Abstract: In a combustion process, especially one used for melting glass, the delivery of fuel is ensured by an apparatus having at least one burner (5) which is equipped with at least one injector (1) that includes a liquid fuel delivery tube (2) which has at least one internal wall (25) and an injected fluid delivery tube (3) arranged concentrically with respect to the liquid fuel delivery tube. Immediately before injecting the liquid fuel from its delivery tube, one puts it in the shape of a hollow jet basically assuming the shape of the internal wall. This has application for the reduction of NOx in a glass-making oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France
    Inventors: Guy Tackels, Patrick Rouchy, Joseph Vernaz
  • Patent number: 6241165
    Abstract: A spray nozzle includes a central swirl chamber (9), receiving the fluid tangentially through lateral fluid inlet channels (14) from a peripheral front cavity (8), and projecting the fluid in outlet through a coaxial outlet passage (12). The coaxial outlet passage (12), the central swirl chamber (9) and the fluid inlet channels (14) are made up of ribs and recesses in a front plate (15) engaged between a nozzle (1) hollow body and a rear core (5) which is itself formed by a core rear body (5a) and a rear plate (5b) with rear axial recess (17). Thus one can economically produce fluid inlet channels (14) and a central swirl chamber (9) with coaxial outlet passage (12) and rear axial recess (17) with very accurate dimensions, thereby ensuring satisfactory reproducibility of the features of the fluid spray jet at the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Verbena Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Jean René Bickart, Pascal Meyer
  • Patent number: 6179227
    Abstract: A fuel injector with a valve body having an inlet, an outlet, and an axially extending fuel passageway from the inlet to the outlet. An armature located proximate the inlet of the valve body. A needle valve operatively connected to the armature. A valve seat proximate the outlet of the valve body. A swirl generator disk located proximate the valve seat. The swirl generator disk having at least one slot extending tangentially from a central aperture. A flat guide disk having a first surface, a second surface adjacent the flat swirl generator disk, a guide aperture, and at least one fuel passage having a wall extending between the first surface and the second surface. The wall includes an inlet, an outlet, and a transition region between the inlet and the outlet that defines a cross-sectional area of the at least one passage. The transition region is provided by a surface of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Min Ren, David Wieczorek
  • Patent number: 6142390
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a spray head (10) having a tubular body (11) that has an inlet (13) thereto and an outlet (14) therefrom, has a nozzle member (15) and a core member (16). The nozzle member (15) has a central chamber (20) adapted to be in fluid communication with the inlet (13) of the spray head (10) and a plurality of outer chambers (22) in communication with the central chamber (20) and adapted to be in fluid communication with the outlet (14) of the spray head (10). The nozzle member (15) and/or the core member (16) has means for spacing the core member with respect to the nozzle member (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Exell Trading PTY Limited
    Inventors: Lindsay Erik Nordstrom, Philip Clayton Nordstrom
  • Patent number: 6095113
    Abstract: Fuel-air mixture is stabilized with respect to the neighboring area of an ignition plug without any effect on deflection of fuel spray due to the air flow (swirl/tumble) in a combustion chamber, and the deposition of fuel onto the side wall of a combustion chamber is reduced, leading to the prevention of smoke.To that end, a fuel injection apparatus includes a fuel injection valve having a nozzle opening to a combustion chamber and an ignition plug, in which the fuel injection valve forms a fuel spray having different. levels of average speed. The fuel injection valve forms a fuel spray having relatively high speed at least in a half way of a single cycle of a fuel injection, and after that, the fuel injection valve forms relatively low-speed fuel spray, and consequently, a fuel-air mixture including high-speed fuel spray is supplied to a neighboring area of the ignition plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Nogi, Takuya Shiraishi, Yoko Nakayama, Minoru Ohsuga
  • Patent number: 6039272
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel injector has a swirl generator with a metering disk upstream of the valve seat. The disks function to redirect the axially flowing fuel through the injector into a tangential fuel flow. As the fuel moves past the needle valve and the valve seat, the narrow cross section imparts a higher velocity to the fuel to atomize the fuel. As the fuel leaves the swirl generator and is ejected from the injector, the fuel forms a hollow conical sheet containing atomized fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Min Ren, David Wieczorek
  • Patent number: 5667144
    Abstract: An airless spray paint gun having an improved swirl valve which is less susceptible to erosion and reduces the amount of sputtering in the paint spray. The spray paint gun includes a gun assembly including a handle, a motor, and a switch for controlling the motor. A pump subassembly mounted to the gun assembly includes a pumping chamber having a discharge end with a beveled seat, a piston mounted within a pump housing and driven by the motor for pumping paint from the container through the discharge end of the pumping chamber, and a swirl valve mounted within the discharge end of the pumping housing. The swirl valve includes a valve body having first and second opposite sides, three paint swirl apertures extending through the valve body between the first and second opposite sides, a beveled seat-engaging surface on the second side of the valve body formed of an elastomeric material co-molded with the valve body. The elastomeric material is softer than the material of the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Wagner Sprqy Tech Corporation
    Inventor: Mark E. Snetting
  • Patent number: 5570841
    Abstract: Multiple orifice disks are stacked and include one or more swirl disks. The effect of the stack of disks is to impart swirl to the fuel stream being ejected from the injector in a relatively short axial length. The geometry of the disks in the stack are such that the fuel from the top disk enters the bottom disk at the end of a pattern which operates to impart a swirl component to the fuel. The pattern in the bottom disk is typically a two layered pattern wherein the top layer is one half the thickness of the thin disk and the bottom layer is the second half of the thickness of the thin disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Pace, Vernon R. Warner, John F. Nally, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5494222
    Abstract: A faucet spout including a sleeve member having a lower water exit, a core member having a closed end, a filtering screen, a resilient adapter fitted onto a faucet and a cap member. The core member is disposed in the sleeve member with the closed end facing the water exit of the sleeve member. The filtering screen is disposed in an inner insert groove of the sleeve member above the core member. The resilient adapter is disposed on an inner step section of the sleeve member. The cap member is screwed on an upper end of the sleeve member to associate the resilient adapter with the sleeve member. When the faucet is opened, the water flowing into the sleeve member is more than the water flowing out of the sleeve member so that the water accumulates therein and creates turbulence and back pressure, making the resilient adapter more firmly engage with the faucet without easily detaching therefrom. The water under pressure will be injected from the water exit of the sleeve member in fog pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Inventor: Hung-Li Chiu
  • Patent number: 5267692
    Abstract: The adjustable nozzle assembly for a trigger sprayer comprises a nose bushing and an integral nozzle cap capable of being screwed upon the bushing. The nozzle cap has a discharge orifice located in its front face and a flange skirt extending from a front wall thereof. A nozzle cap flange skirt is threaded inside the rear portion thereof and an internally contoured or stepped surface is located forwardly of the threads to provide reduced diameter annular surfaces at two locations rearward of an inner wall surface of the cap and forward of the internal threads inside the nozzle cap flange skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: AFA Products Inc.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus J. J. Maas, Petrus L. W. Hurkmans
  • Patent number: 5201466
    Abstract: A spray gun including a rotatable spray head for creating a spiral flow of shaping air to more effectively apply multiple coats of liquid spray onto an article without dripping. The spiral flow of shaping or fanning air is further created by a turbine mechanism or air distributor. A drive mechanism, including a reversible motor, alternately rotates the spray head in either a clockwise direction or a counter clockwise direction relative to a housing assembly of the spray gun, depending on the direction of movement of the spray gun. In this way, the spray gun can effectively apply the liquid spray to the sides of an article, such as a grill, having a plurality of parallel, spaced portions. Preferably, the motor is an air motor having a drive shaft on which gearing is mounted for rotation therewith. A cylindrical portion of the housing assembly rotatably supports the spray head by bearings mounted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Inventor: James E. Hynds