Unitary Injection Nozzle And Pump Or Accumulator Plunger Patents (Class 239/88)
  • Patent number: 7377040
    Abstract: Various methodologies relating to a polymeric fuel injector are disclosed. One method provides for manufacturing the fuel injector by forming a polymeric housing over a coil assembly and electrical connectors to provide a polymeric passage extending from an inlet to an outlet along a longitudinal axis; inserting components into the polymeric passage from at least one of the inlet and outlet; and securing a polymeric support member of a metering assembly to the housing. Another method provides for manufacturing a fuel injector housing by hermetically enclosing a polymeric housing over a coil assembly and electrical connectors to provide a continuous polymeric passage, the polymeric passage directly facing the longitudinal axis. Yet another method provides for manufacturing a metering assembly by providing a seat; and molding at least a portion of the seat to provide a polymeric support member that surrounds the outer circumference of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems US, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Hornby
  • Publication number: 20080099577
    Abstract: Hydraulically driven pump-injector for internal combustion engines primarily for diesels, wherein in order to considerably increase the pressure multiplication coefficient for achieving super-high injection pressures (2500 Bar and higher) and decreasing the pump-injector diameter or reducing the pressure of the actuating fluid, a multistage pressure intensifier is installed in the pump-injector, comprising a tandem of successive stages, each stage comprising an intermediate piston (3), above which a working cavity (12) is formed, to which the actuating fluid is expulsed by a pushrod (4) driven by the previous piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventor: Boris Feinleib
  • Patent number: 7357565
    Abstract: An improved injector which mixes a secondary fluid into a carrier fluid stream has (a) a body for directing the flow of the carrier fluid, this body having an internal wall forming a flow passage therethrough, a central axis, an inlet, an outlet, and a port for receiving the secondary fluid that is mixed with the carrier fluid, (b) a ramp-like restriction portion which is located downstream of the body's inlet and upstream of the secondary fluid port and configured so as to decrease the effective cross-sectional area of the flow passage in the direction of the flow of the carrier fluid, (c) a ramp-like expansion portion which is located downstream of the secondary fluid port and upstream of the body's outlet and configured so as to increase the effective cross-sectional area of the flow passage in the direction of the flow of the carrier fluid, (d) a throat portion which is situated between the restriction and expansion portions, and (e) a cavity in the throat that extends from its internal wall and into the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Bowles Fluidics Corporation
    Inventors: Shridhar Gopalan, Shawn Martin, Alan S. Romack
  • Patent number: 7347385
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for internal combustion engines, having a control valve located between high-pressure and low-pressure sides and which opens or blocks the communication of a control chamber with the low-pressure side, and an outlet throttle located between the control valve and the low-pressure side, the control valve having a first valve position, in which the communication of the control chamber with the low-pressure side is blocked, a second valve position, in which the control chamber communicates with the low-pressure side via a first outlet conduit, and a third valve position, in which the control chamber communicates with the low-pressure side via a second outlet conduit having an outlet throttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Friedrich Boecking
  • Patent number: 7341205
    Abstract: An existing diesel engine vehicle of light oil fuel is enabled to run as a diesel engine vehicle using DME as fuel without exchanging a whole diesel engine and at very low cost and easily. The shape of a tip part 21 of a needle valve 2 is set by a center diameter L3 for regulating a minimum flow path area at full lift of a fuel injection nozzle 1, a seat diameter L2 of a seat part 211 coming in contact with a valve seat part 33 and blocking communication with a fuel injection hole 31, and a shaft diameter L1, and a tip end angle is about 92 degrees. The center diameter L3 is set to ?2.5 mm, the seat diameter L2 is set to ?3.0 mm, and the shaft diameter L1 is set to ?3.25 mm. The ratio of the center diameter L3 and the seat diameter L2 is L3/L2=2.5 mm/3.0 mm=about 0.833, and the ratio of the seat diameter L2 and the shaft diameter L1 is L2/L1=3.0 mm/3.25 mm=about 0.92.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Bosch Automotive Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Nozaki, Toshifumi Noda, Daijo Ushiyama, Yukihiro Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 7341204
    Abstract: In a fuel injection valve in which a funnel-shaped fuel collecting recess 35 is provided between a valve seat 8 and an outlet hole 7, and a flat fuel diffusion chamber 36 which diffuses a fuel radially outward and guides the fuel to a plurality of fuel injection holes 11 is provided between opposed surfaces of a valve seat member 3 and an injector plate 10, a seating portion 16a having a spherical band shape, and a valve tip end portion 16b which projects into a cone shape toward a center of the outlet hole 7 from the seating portion 16a and leaves its top portion in the outlet hole 7 even at the time of valve opening of a valve body 18 are formed at the valve body 18, a cone angle ? of the valve tip end portion 16b is set to be larger than a funnel angle ? of the fuel collecting recess 35, and an inner peripheral surface 7A of the outlet hole 7 is formed along an inner peripheral side curved surface of a virtual torus T so that the inner peripheral surface is connected to a bottom surface of the fuel collect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Keihin Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Akabane
  • Patent number: 7337986
    Abstract: In a fuel injection valve for slanted fuel injection, provided between a conical flow path and an injection port is an intermediate flow path having a cylindrical surface coaxial to the conical flow path, so that the injection port has a portion of the cylindrical surface connected to the conical surface of the conical flow path and another portion of the cylindrical surface connected to the cylindrical surface of the intermediate flow path, whereby generation of stagnation of flow of fuel is suppressed to decrease the formation of the carbon deposit. The intermediate flow path has a tapered conical surface that is connected to a downstream side end portion of said cylindrical surface and that includes a diameter gradually decreases in the direction of flow of fuel to cope with where the injection port diameter is small. A cone apex angle of the conical surface of the intermediate flow path is smaller than a cone apex angle of the valve seat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norihisa Fukutomi
  • Publication number: 20080047527
    Abstract: Extremely high injection pressures are achieved in a common rail fuel injection system via a movable intensifier positioned in each fuel injector. The fuel injectors are individually controlled via a single electrical actuator that moves between positions that connect an intensifier control cavity either to the high pressure common rail or a low pressure reservoir. Leakage is avoided between injection events by maintaining opposing hydraulic surfaces of the intensifier and needle valve exposed to fluid pressure in the high pressure rail. This avoids pressure differentials and leakage associated with guide surfaces separating high and low pressure areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Jinhui Sun, Dennis Gibson
  • Patent number: 7331537
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, having a valve body (1) in which a bore (3) is embodied that is defined on its end toward the combustion chamber by a valve seat (18) at which at least one injection opening (20) originates. The hollow valve needle (8) is located longitudinally displaceably in the bore (3) and has a valve sealing face (35) on its end oriented toward the valve seat (18). A first sealing region (31; 34) and a second sealing region (32; 46; 48) are embodied on the valve sealing face (35), and upon contact of the hollow valve needle (8) with the valve seat (18), the first sealing region (31; 34) upstream of the at least one injection opening (20) and the second sealing region (32; 46; 48) downstream of that injection opening effect sealing between the valve sealing face (35) and the valve seat (18) (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kuegler, Jochen Mertens, Hasiman Ueskuedar
  • Patent number: 7331936
    Abstract: The invention provide a cylindrical pushrod for the syringe needle-retracting safety injector, comprising an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder, a push pole, an underpinned piece and a seal gasket; the push pole is set at the front end of chamber of outer cylinder, its front end appears as a tubular shape or projects partially in the longitudinal direction, the back end of push pole is supported on the underpinned piece; the underpinned piece is set at the front end of the chamber of outer cylinder and supports the push pole; the cylinder wall of the inner cylinder supports the underpinned piece; a clamping structure is set at the tail of this cylindrical pushrod. With the safety injector with the cylindrical pushrod according to the invention, the medical personnel can control the time of the needle retraction as desired, and is not necessary to change their habitual injection practice, and thereby the safety injector is easy to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Inventor: Wenjie Liu
  • Patent number: 7320441
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an injection nozzle (1) for an internal combustion engine, in particular in a motor vehicle. A first nozzle needle (3) controls at least one first injection opening (5). A second nozzle needle (4) controls at least one second injection opening (6). A control chamber (32) is connected via a throttle line (35) to a pressure chamber (34) in which it is possible to adjust the injection pressure. A first control piston (41) cooperates with a first needle unit (17) that includes the first nozzle needle (3) and the first control surface (43) of this first control piston (41) can be acted on by the control pressure prevailing in the control chamber (32). In the closed position of the first nozzle needle (3), there is an axial play (44) between the first control piston (41) and the first needle unit (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Boehland
  • Patent number: 7316361
    Abstract: A fuel injector with a pressure booster supplied with fuel at high pressure. A work chamber of the pressure booster is separated from a differential pressure chamber via a booster piston. The pressure relief and the subjection to pressure of the differential pressure chamber are effected via a switching valve which communicates with the differential pressure chamber via a control line. A pressure chamber on an injection valve member communicates with a compression chamber of the pressure booster via a pressure chamber supply line. The switching valve is embodied as a direct-switching 3/2-way valve, whose valve needle is pressure-balanced and has both a sliding seat and a slide seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Christoph Magel
  • Patent number: 7314184
    Abstract: A fuel injector is described that includes a polymeric housing, pole piece, filter assembly, coil assembly, spring member, armature assembly and metering assembly. The polymeric housing has a passageway extending between an inlet and an outlet along a longitudinal axis. The pole piece is disposed in the passageway. The metering assembly is secured to the polymeric housing proximate the outlet. The metering assembly has a seat molded to a polymeric support member via at least one annular ridge. A method of making a metering assembly is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Hornby
  • Patent number: 7309029
    Abstract: A fuel injection device includes at least two valve elements, disposed in a housing and coaxial with one another, with at least one fuel outlet opening associated with each valve element. On the outer valve element, radially outward from the at least one fuel outlet opening associated with it, there is a first sealing edge which cooperates with a valve seat on the housing and can separate the at least one fuel outlet opening from a high-pressure connection. An additional sealing edge is provided on the outer valve element, between the at least one fuel outlet opening associated with it and the inner valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Friedrich Boecking
  • Patent number: 7309027
    Abstract: A fuel injector for injecting fuel that is at high pressure into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine has an injection valve member triggered by an actuator and a coupler chamber; the actuator acts on the injection valve member and the injection valve member opens or closes at least one injection opening. The coupler chamber is located on the side of the actuator diametrically opposite the injection valve member; and the coupler chamber is filled with fuel that is at system pressure when the injection opening is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Christoph Magel, Friedrich Boecking
  • Patent number: 7309025
    Abstract: A fuel injection method is provided for correcting the fuel injection amount accurately by eliminating offset components when detecting a current flowing through a solenoid for fuel injection. A current component, which is detected during normal running and a drive current flowing through the solenoid for fuel injection is OFF (Step 11), is input to an A/D converter that stores the value thereof (Step 12). Thereafter, the drive current is turned ON (Step S13), elapse of a fixed time period is waited (Step S14), and an input voltage of the A/D converter is detected (Step S15). A difference current (offset component) is calculated by subtracting the offset voltage from the input voltage (Step S16), and a current span is adjusted based on a span correction factor (Step S17). Thereafter, a pulse width current correction factor is calculated (Step S2a) and, based on the pulse width current correction factor, a drive pulse width is calculated (Step S2b) and provided to the solenoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Mikuni Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Yamazaki, Hirokazu Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 7306169
    Abstract: A needle valve 20 having a seat contact section 24 at a leading end is provided. A nozzle body 22 having a seat section 26 with which the seat contact section 24 comes into contact is provided. The nozzle body 22 comprises a tapered surface 34, which includes the seat section 26, and a fuel receiver section 28, which includes a spherically shaped sack wall surface 36. The leading end of the needle valve 20 comprises a first protrusion 38, which is tapered to have a greater taper angle than the tapered surface 34, and a second protrusion 40, which is tapered to have a smaller taper angle than the first protrusion 38. More specifically, the second protrusion 40 is conically shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eriko Matsumura
  • Patent number: 7306168
    Abstract: A fuel injector is described that includes a polymeric housing, pole piece, filter assembly, coil assembly, spring member, armature assembly and metering assembly. The polymeric housing has a passageway extending between an inlet and an outlet along a longitudinal axis. The pole piece is disposed in the passageway, the pole piece having a through opening. The filter assembly has a portion disposed in the through opening of the pole piece. The coil assembly is disposed in the polymeric housing to surround the pole piece. The spring member is disposed partly in the pole piece and including a spring portion contiguous with the portion of the filter assembly. The armature assembly is disposed in the passageway in a first position having a first portion confronting the pole piece and in a second position having a closure member contiguous to an end face of the pole piece. The metering assembly is secured to the polymeric housing proximate the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Hornby
  • Patent number: 7303144
    Abstract: Among other aspects shown and described, a fuel supply apparatus that provides multiple fuel spray targeting angles as a function of fuel pressure towards a combustion chamber of an engine to reduce hydrocarbon emission during cold-start or hot-start. A method and fuel system are also shown and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Zeki Alyanak
  • Patent number: 7300002
    Abstract: A dosing device for liquid fuels, in particular for input into a chemical reformer in order to recover hydrogen or into a post-combustion device in order to generate heat, includes at least one metering device for metering fuel into a metering conduit and a nozzle body, adjoining the metering conduit, includes at least one spray discharge opening which opens into a metering chamber, including a nozzle body having a perforated spray insert in which at least one spray discharge opening is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Miller, Hartmut Albrodt
  • Patent number: 7284712
    Abstract: A valve back pressure chamber is provided to exert a back pressure of a first valve needle. Furthermore, a hydraulic pressure passage is provided to extend through the valve back pressure chamber. A valve body is provided to a second valve needle and is driven to connect and disconnect between the hydraulic pressure passage and a fuel tank and thereby to drive the first valve needle. The second valve needle is driven by hydraulic pressure induced by an actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Funai, Masatoshi Kuroyanagi, Akira Shibata, Kenji Date
  • Patent number: 7278593
    Abstract: A common rail fuel injector comprises a three-way control valve that controls the flow of high-pressure fuel to a fuel cavity for fuel injection. Specifically, when the control valve is transitioning to a first, on position, from a second, off position, high-pressure fuel is provided to both the fuel cavity and to a check control cavity, thereby preventing fuel injection until the control valve seats in the first, on position. Once seated in the first, on position, the control valve only provides high-pressure fuel to the fuel cavity allowing fuel injection to occur. To stop injection, the control valve is moved from the first, on position to the second, closed position. Once again, while the control valve is in the transition location between the two positions, high-pressure fuel is provided to both the fuel cavity and to the check control cavity thereby terminating injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Yongxin Wang, Ye Tian, Norman D. Knapp, Norval J. Wiemken
  • Publication number: 20070227494
    Abstract: The present invention provides an injector-ignition fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, comprising an input fuel metering system for dispensing a next fuel charge into a pressurizing chamber, a pressurization ram system including a pressurization ram for compressing the fuel charge within the pressurizing chamber, wherein the fuel charge is heated in the pressurization chamber in the presence of a catalyst, and an injector nozzle for injecting the heated catalyzed fuel charge into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventor: Michael C. Cheiky
  • Publication number: 20070228185
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a nozzle body and a plate. The nozzle body includes an injection orifice, through which fuel is injected, a needle that controls the injection through the injection orifice, and a needle-receiving bore that receives the needle. The plate is adjacently provided to the nozzle body for defining a fuel passage therein, through which fuel is supplied to the needle-receiving bore. The plate has an annular groove, which connects the fuel passage with the needle-receiving bore, at an end surface of the plate toward the nozzle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Shuichi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20070221761
    Abstract: A fuel injector assembly includes a first coil driven by a direct current driver and a second coil driven by an alternating current driver where both the first coil and the second coil share a common connection to reduce the number of external terminal connections. The second coil generates a second magnetic field that is utilized to heat a component in thermal contact with the fuel flow that in turn heats fuel before exiting the fuel injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Hornby, John F. Nally, Hamid Sayar, Perry Robert Czimmek
  • Patent number: 7273186
    Abstract: In a fuel injector (1) configured so that fuel injection is controlled by a solenoid valve (4), the solenoid valve (4) comprises an electromagnet (43), an armature bolt (41) that has a ball (42) and a plate member (41A) attached thereto and is spring-biased in the valve closing direction by a spring member (48), a stopper member (49) that limits movement of the plate member (41A) in order to limit the maximum stroke of the ball (42) and an armature plate (44) through which the armature bolt (41) passes and which collaborates with the solenoid valve (4), the contact area (S2) between the armature plate (44) and the plate member (41A) being made larger than the contact area (S1) between the plate member (41A) and the stopper member (49).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Bosch Automotive Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kubo, Eiji Hoshikawa
  • Patent number: 7273185
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, and which includes a fuel injector which can be acted upon by fuel at high pressure via a high-pressure source and is actuatable via a metering valve. Associated with the injection valve member is a damping element, which is movable independently of it and defines a damping chamber. The damping element has at least one overflow conduit for connecting the damping chamber to a further hydraulic chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Christoph Magel
  • Publication number: 20070215714
    Abstract: An injector includes a boosting mechanism and a nozzle. The boosting mechanism boosts fuel, and the nozzle injects and supplies the fuel boosted by the boosting mechanism. The boosting mechanism includes a tubular piston and a column piston. The tubular piston has a bore, which extends through the tubular piston in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the tubular piston. The column piston is loosely received by the tubular piston and has an end portion, which projects from the tubular piston, and which is engaged with the tubular piston. The tubular piston is slidably received by a first cylinder. The end portion of the column piston is slidably received by a second cylinder, which is provided generally coaxially to the first cylinder, and which has a diameter different from that of the first cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicants: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Horiuchi, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 7264181
    Abstract: Using a swirl type fuel injection valve, a concentrated spray area and a thin spray area are formed, the positions thereof are adjusted, and the spray is made to conform to the geometric shape of the engine and mounting position of the fuel injection valve, so as to reduce the fuel consumption and control the unburnt components in exhaust gas. The fuel injection valve is so constructed that a step is formed on the injection hole opening of the fuel injection valve, so as to provide two or more edge transition portions at the injection hole opening, resulting from the step, and the line connecting the edge transition portions forms an oblique angle relative to the wall formed by the step perpendicular to the injection hole center axis and the angled wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Abe, Yoshio Okamoto, Yuzo Kadomukai, Makoto Yamakado, Ayumu Miyajima, Hiromasa Kubo, Toru Ishikawa, Yasuo Namaizawa
  • Patent number: 7261246
    Abstract: A sealing element for a fuel injector insertable into a receiving bore of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine for direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine includes a sealing element surrounding a nozzle body of the fuel injector peripherally. The sealing element includes a base body having an axial recess through which the nozzle body extends. The base body also has an annular recess which communicates with the recess and into which the sealing element is introduced. At a first contact face, the base body is in at least indirect contact with an end face of the fuel injector, and at a second contact face opposite the first contact face, the base body is at least in indirect contact with a step of the receiving bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Martin Krause, Stefan Lauter
  • Patent number: 7258281
    Abstract: A fuel injector is described that includes a polymeric housing, pole piece, filter assembly, coil assembly, spring member, armature assembly and metering assembly. The polymeric housing has a passageway extending between an inlet and an outlet along a longitudinal axis. The pole piece is disposed in the passageway. The metering assembly is secured to the polymeric housing proximate the outlet. The metering assembly has a guide member to guide a closure member through an aperture and along the longitudinal axis. The guide member may be cup-shaped and include offset apertures to allow fuel to travel along the passageway toward the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Hornby
  • Patent number: 7258287
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a body, filter, and damper member. The body extends along a longitudinal axis between an inlet end and an outlet end with a flow passage extending therebetween. The filter is disposed in the flow passage proximate the inlet end. The damper member extends from a first terminus to a second terminus. The first terminus is proximal to the longitudinal axis, and the second terminus is distal to the longitudinal axis. The damper member extends from the first terminus about the longitudinal axis towards the second terminus in a generally circular path to define an aperture that permits fluid communication between inlet end and the filter. The damper member is secured to the flow passage between the inlet end and the filter. A damper member is also shown and described. A method of reducing sound in the valve group subassembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventors: Yong D. Cho, Zeki Alyanak
  • Patent number: 7258282
    Abstract: A fuel injector is described that includes a polymeric housing, pole piece, filter assembly, coil assembly, spring member, armature assembly and metering assembly. The polymeric housing has a passageway extending between an inlet and an outlet along a longitudinal axis. The pole piece is disposed in the passageway. The metering assembly is secured to the polymeric housing proximate the outlet. The metering assembly has a seat molded to a polymeric support member. The polymeric support member may be cylindrical and bonded to the polymeric bore proximate the outlet. A method of operating the fuel injector is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporaton
    Inventor: Michael J. Hornby
  • Patent number: 7258284
    Abstract: A fuel injector is described that includes a polymeric housing, pole piece, filter assembly, coil assembly, spring member, armature assembly and metering assembly. The polymeric housing has a passageway extending between an inlet and an outlet along a longitudinal axis. The pole piece is disposed in the passageway. The metering assembly is secured to the polymeric housing proximate the outlet. The metering assembly has an O-ring disposed between a seat molded to a polymeric support member. The polymeric support member includes a peripheral portion bonded to the polymeric housing proximate the outlet. A method of sealing a fuel injector outlet end is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Hornby
  • Patent number: 7258283
    Abstract: A fuel injector with a direct needle control for an internal combustion engine, having an actuator, a hydraulic booster, and a nozzle needle guided in a nozzle body and acting on a nozzle needle sealing seat. The hydraulic booster includes a booster piston connected to the actuator and a nozzle needle booster piston connected to the nozzle needle; a booster chamber in the form of an actuator coupler chamber is associated with a pressure surface of the actuator booster piston; and depending on the pressure in the actuator coupler chamber, the nozzle needle is lifted away from the nozzle needle sealing seat, thus initiating an injection. In addition to the actuator booster piston, a control element is provided that is able to execute a stroke motion, is hydraulically coupled to the actuator coupler chamber by means of a first control surface, and is associated with a control chamber by means of a second control surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Heinz, Stefan Schuerg, Wolfgang Stoecklein, Michael Mennicken, Holger Rapp, Thomas Kuegler, Hans-Christoph Magel, Andreas Wengert, Thomas Pauer, Andreas Rau, Andreas Bartsch, Christian Kuhnert
  • Patent number: 7255289
    Abstract: A fuel injector (1) for an internal-combustion engine has a shell (2) provided with two opposite terminal portions; the first terminal portion (4) has an inlet (7) for supply of the fuel and is generally designed to extend outside the engine, whilst the second terminal portion (5) has a nozzle (9) communicating with said inlet (7), is designed to be housed in the engine and has, in the radial direction, dimensions smaller than those of the first portion (4); the injector (1) further has an actuator (16) and a servo valve (15) housed in the first terminal portion (4); the servo valve (15) is provided with an open/close element (32), which can slide axially, under the action of the actuator (16) and substantially in a fluid-tight way, in a seat (27) and is subjected to an axial resultant of pressure of the fuel that is substantially zero; the fuel inlet (7) is made laterally in an intermediate axial position between the actuator (16) and the nozzle (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societe Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Mario Ricco, Sisto Luigi De Matthaeis, Adriano Gorgoglione, Marco Petrachi
  • Patent number: 7252245
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve member, a first stop member, a second stop member, a movable core, a fixed core, and a coil. The valve member opens and closes an injection nozzle. The first stop member protrudes radially outward from said valve member. The second stop member protrudes radially outward from said valve member. The movable core is sandwiched between said first and second stop members. The movable core and one of said first and second stop members defines a fuel chamber. The fixed core is axially displaced from said movable core. The coil causes reciprocal axial displacement of said valve member such that said movable core axially reciprocates toward and away from said fixed core therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoji Nishiwaki
  • Patent number: 7243862
    Abstract: A fuel injector nozzle and method for dispersing fuel during a normal combustion operation and a supplemental combustion operation, the fuel injector nozzle comprising: a plurality of first outlet openings configured to disperse fuel in a first arrangement; and a plurality of second outlet openings configured to collide with the fuel passing through the plurality of first openings to disperse fuel in a second arrangement, wherein either the first or second arrangement is selected by the position of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip J. G. Dingle
  • Patent number: 7240856
    Abstract: This fuel injection control device includes: a fuel injection valve; a piezoelectric element or a solenoid which drives the fuel injection valve; a fuel pump which pressurizes fuel and supplies it to the fuel injection valve; a magnetostrictive element which drives the fuel pump; and a magnetostrictive element driving coil which drives the magnetostrictive element; and the magnetostrictive element driving coil also serves as a voltage elevation coil for a drive circuit which drives the piezoelectric element or the solenoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Keihin Corporation
    Inventor: Hidefumi Abe
  • Patent number: 7234654
    Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, having a valve-closure member which cooperates with a valve-seat surface formed on a valve-seat body, to form a sealing seat, includes at least one spray-discharge orifice provided downstream from the sealing seat. The spray-discharge orifice has a guide region and an exit region arranged at its discharge-side end. The exit region widens in a stepped manner by at least one first step and/or at least in part continuously beginning with a transition from the guide region into the exit region. A fuel jet which emerges from the guide region at the transition and widens essentially uniformly at a jet angle, passes a discharge-side end of the exit region with a gap dimension of a gap after a distance s, the gap dimension being greater than zero and a first volume remaining in the exit region between the fuel jet and the inner walls of the exit region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Holzgrefe, Stefan Arndt
  • Patent number: 7234650
    Abstract: A three-way valve having a valve chamber with a low-pressure port, a high-pressure port, and a control port is provided. The three-way valve also has a control valve installed in the valve chamber for closing one of the low-pressure port and the high-pressure port. A guide hole communicates with the valve chamber via the high-pressure port. A guide portion is slidably installed in the guide hole and moves together with the control valve. The guide portion further receives a fuel pressure at the high-pressure port in a closing direction of the high-pressure port. The control valve is driven by a piezoelectric actuator to open the low-pressure port and close the high-pressure port. The valve chamber communicates with an oil-accumulating chamber via a by-pass conduit. The oil-accumulating chamber is defined within the guide hole and is located opposite the guide portion from the valve chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kuroyanagi, Koichi Chika
  • Patent number: 7225996
    Abstract: A fuel injection device includes a fuel injection unit provided with a plurality of fuel injection members. The fuel injection unit is held by a holding-and-supplying unit. The fuel injection members are connected to the holding-and-supplying unit by a connecting-and-supplying unit. A fuel is supplied to the fuel injection members through fuel supply passages formed in the holding-and-supplying unit and the connecting-and-supplying unit so as to extend from the holding-and-supplying unit through the connecting-and-supplying unit to the fuel injection members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Takeo Oda
  • Patent number: 7219847
    Abstract: A fuel injector is described that includes a polymeric housing, pole piece, filter assembly, coil assembly, spring member, armature assembly and metering assembly. The housing has a passageway extending between an inlet opening and an outlet opening along a longitudinal axis. The pole piece is disposed in the passageway and has a through opening. The filter assembly has a portion disposed in the through opening of the pole piece. The coil assembly is disposed in the housing to surround the pole piece. The spring member is disposed partly in the pole piece and includes a spring portion contiguous with the portion of the filter assembly. The armature assembly is disposed in the passageway in a first position confronting the end face of the pole piece and in a second position contiguous to an end face of the pole piece. The metering assembly has a seat secured to a polymeric support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Michael J. Hornby
  • Patent number: 7216815
    Abstract: A servo-valve for a fuel injector equipped with a pressure booster whose working chamber is separated from a differential pressure chamber by a booster piston in which an actuator can connect a control chamber to a first low-pressure return and the differential pressure chamber can be connected to a second low-pressure return or to a return system in which the returns are connected to each other. A first servo-valve piston has a first sealing seat, and a second piston, embodied as a sealing sleeve, is accommodated on the first servo-valve piston and, together with a valve housing, constitutes a second sealing seat. When the pressure in the control chamber is relieved, this second sealing seat is closed with a shorter stroke, sooner than the first sealing seat. When the control chamber is subjected to pressure, the second sealing seat opens only after the first sealing seat is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Christoph Magel
  • Patent number: 7213775
    Abstract: The invention describes an injector device specifically designed for the injection of an alternative fuel such as LPG, methane, hydrogen or others, in an internal combustion engine. In the injector device, the shutter ensuring sealing in closing condition is separated with respect to the metering means with gauged hole, which perform the function of metering fuel during injection, and it is arranged downstream from said metering means. The shutter is controlled by a solenoid, which is again arranged on the downstream side with respect to said metering means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Mario Ricco, Sisto Luigi De Matthaeis, Claudio Amorese, Dario Manodoro, Raffaele Ricco
  • Patent number: 7210639
    Abstract: A fuel injector having an injection valve connected to a high-pressure source and a control valve including a control piston guided in a valve body and comprising a pressure piston section having a first pressure surface guided in a bush and a control piston section with a sliding seal that has a control edge; the bush is contained in a pressure chamber of the valve body. In a first valve position, a sealing seat of the control piston disconnects a valve chamber from a low-pressure/return system and in a second valve position, the control edge of the control piston disconnects the pressure chamber from the valve chamber; in the second valve position, a connection is simultaneously produced between the valve chamber and the low-pressure/return system, thus initiating an actuation of the fuel injection valve. The control piston section with the control edge is guided in a control cylinder that is contained in the pressure chamber of the valve body and is separate from the bush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Christoph Magel
  • Patent number: 7204433
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve has: a tubular body, a valve seat member, a valve body, a core tube, a bias spring, and an electromagnetic actuator. The core tube is press fitted into the tubular body. The core tube has a first end side opposing an absorption section of the valve body in such a manner as to form an axial gap interposed between the first end side of the core tube and the absorption section. The core tube has a second end side axially extending in the tubular body to a certain position on a way to the second end side of the tubular body. The axially extending second end side of the core tube has an outer periphery which is formed with a reduced diameter section for increasing an accuracy in positioning the core tube when the core tube is press fitted into the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Unisia Jecs Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 7201330
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve has: a tubular body, a valve seat member, a valve body, a core tube, a bias spring, and an electromagnetic actuator. The core tube is press fitted into the tubular body. The core tube has a first end side opposing an absorption section of the valve body in such a manner as to form an axial gap interposed between the first end side of the core tube and the absorption section. The core tube has a second end side axially extending in the tubular body to a certain position on a way to the second end side of the tubular body. The axially extending second end side of the core tube has an outer periphery which is formed with a reduced diameter section for increasing an accuracy in positioning the core tube when the core tube is press fitted into the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kobayashi, Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 7198202
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel injection valve which moves a needle valve (10) via a viscous fluid and a piston (7) by having an actuator (9) move a cylinder (3). The fuel injection valve comprises a sealing member (27) for sealing a gap between the cylinder (3) and piston (7), and a linking hole (29) formed in the piston (7) for connecting two chambers (5, 6) to each other. The size and/or shape of the linking hole (29) is set such that when a force for moving the cylinder (3) or piston (7) at a lower speed than the driving speed of the actuator (9) is generated due to differential thermal expansion between members, the viscous fluid moves between the two chambers (5, 6) through the linking hole (29), and when a force for moving the cylinder (3) at a higher speed than the force generated by the differential thermal expansion is generated by the actuator (9), the viscous fluid cannot pass through the linking hole (29).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventor: Masaki Okada
  • Patent number: RE40199
    Abstract: A fuel jet adjusting plate has first nozzle holes arranged along a first circle coaxial with a central axis of a valve body and second nozzle holes arranged along a second circle coaxial with the central axis and having a diameter larger than that of the first circle. Each hole axis of the second nozzle holes forms an acute angle with a reference plane perpendicular to the central axis of the valve body smaller than that formed by each hole axis of the first nozzle holes with the reference plane. Hence, fuel sprays injected through the first nozzle holes can be directed away from fuel sprays injected through the second nozzle holes. As a result, the fuel sprays injected through the first nozzle holes do not interfere with the fuel sprays injected through the second nozzle holes, which makes it possible to suitably atomize injected fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomojiro Sugimoto, Keiso Takeda