Abstract: The injector has a cylindrical body, which houses an injection nozzle regulated by an injection valve provided with a moveable pin, a fuel supply line, an injection chamber communicating with the supply line, housing a lower portion of the pin and delimited below by a valve seat of the injection valve, a control chamber communicating with the supply line and housing an upper portion of the pin, and a control valve, which is capable of putting the control chamber in communication with a drain for the low-pressure fuel and is controlled by an electromagnetic actuator provided with a pair of electromagnets identical with each other and arranged mechanically in series with each other so that their respective thrust forces are added together.

Abstract: A fuel injector having a pressure booster whose booster piston separates a working chamber, which is continuously acted on with fuel by means of a pressure source, from a differential pressure chamber that can be pressure-relieved; a pressure change in the differential pressure chamber occurs via an actuation of a servo-valve whose control chamber can be pressure-relieved by an on/off valve that also opens or closes a hydraulic connection of the differential pressure chamber to a first return on the low-pressure side. In the deactivated state of the pressure booster, a first sealing seat seals a return on the low-pressure side off from a high-pressure region of the servo-valve, which region is comprised of the control chamber, a first hydraulic chamber, and a second hydraulic chamber.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, having a housing (12; 48) in which a pistonlike valve member (35; 60) is disposed longitudinally displaceably in a bore (34; 57). The valve member (35; 60) is surrounded, over at least part of its length, by a pressure chamber (37; 68), embodied in the housing (12; 48), that can be filled with fuel at high pressure; the valve member (35; 60) controls the communication of the pressure chamber (37; 68) with at least one injection opening (39; 66). The pressure chamber (37; 68) communicates with a damping chamber (46; 80), embodied in the housing (12; 48), via at least one throttle (44; 78) disposed in the housing (12; 48), so that pressure fluctuations that occur in the damping chamber (46; 60) rapidly fade (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus having at least one solenoid valve for controlling the fuel injection that is contained in a housing part and a solenoid assembly having a magnetic coil and a magnet armature inserted into a recess of the housing part. A cover piece that can be attached to the housing part fixes the solenoid assembly in the housing part. A spring element is disposed between the cover piece and the solenoid assembly and clamps the solenoid assembly in the housing part. At least one securing element is formed onto the spring element and is of one piece with it, which secures the spring element to the housing part and secures the solenoid assembly in the recess of the housing part without the cover piece being attached to the housing part.

Abstract: A fuel injector includes an auxiliary valve member that can assist in raising a mean injection pressure, increase a nozzle valve opening pressure, and hasten the closure rate of a nozzle valve member over an equivalent fuel injector without the auxiliary valve. The auxiliary valve member is fluidly positioned between a needle control chamber and a high pressure space, which includes a fuel pressurization chamber within the fuel injector. The auxiliary valve member includes a closing hydraulic surface exposed to fluid pressure in the high pressure space. The plumbing and the auxiliary valve member allow high pressure fuel to act upon a closing hydraulic surface of the nozzle valve member to increase valve opening pressure and mean injection pressure. The needle control chamber may be vented or may be a closed volume when the auxiliary valve member is in its closed position.

Abstract: In a sliding structure in which a shaft member is retained slidably in a guide hole, the lack of an oil film caused by the edge contact of the shaft member to which a pressing load in the axial direction is applied is prevented. With the fact being taken into account that end portions 25c1 and 25c2, which are always in slidable contact with a side surface 1232a of a guide hole 1232, of a side surface 25c of a shaft member 251 are the partial edge portion, a plurality of labyrinth grooves 2501 and 2502 are formed in the end portions 25c1 and 25c2, respectively, thereby it is possible for an oil film to cover the entire contact portion without increasing the groove width extremely. Because the groove width is not increased extremely, the length of the sliding portions can be ensured.

Abstract: Fuel injectors and methods of fuel injection allowing direct control of the flow of fuel at an intensified pressure to the needle. A valve, typically a spool valve, is placed in the fuel passage between the intensifier actuation piston and the needle, and controlled by a control valve which may be independent of the control valve controlling the coupling of actuation fluid and a vent to the intensifier actuation piston. This allows achievement of intensification before initiating injection, and control of multiple injections in a single injection event while maintaining fuel intensification throughout the duration of the injection event. Various embodiments are disclosed, including embodiments having multiple intensifiers, having control of pressure over the needle, having two stage control valve systems for control of intensifier actuation fluid, and combining control of one of the intensifiers and the valve controlling flow of intensified fuel to the needle for injection.

Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine. includes a high pressure accumulator, a pressure booster, and a metering valve. The pressure booster includes a working chamber and a control chamber that are separated from each other by an axially movable piston. A pressure change in the control chamber produces a pressure change in a compression chamber that acts on a nozzle chamber via a fuel inlet. The nozzle chamber encompasses a nozzle needle. A nozzle spring chamber that acts on the injection valve element can be filled on the high-pressure side via a line that leads from the compression chamber and contains an inlet throttle restriction. On the outlet side, the nozzle spring chamber is connected to a chamber of the pressure booster via a line that contains an outlet throttle restriction.

Abstract: A solenoid end cap assembly having a flat mating surface. The flat mating surface is a single planar mating surface and is designed to mate with a substantially flat mating surface of a valve control body. The solenoid, housed within the solenoid end cap, does not protrude past the flat surface and may form part of the substantially flat mating surface of the solenoid end cap. The flat mating surfaces of the valve control body and the solenoid end cap assembly eliminates the need for ring dowels in the assembly between the solenoid and the valve control body. This reduces manufacturing costs and assembly time. The flat mating surfaces also provide a uniform mounting surface for the solenoid from injector to injector. This increases performance characteristics, as well as increases thermal conductivity and magnetic conductivity characteristics.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine fuel injector has a casing defining a nozzle; and a shutter pin having an axis, and housed in axially sliding manner inside the casing to close the nozzle by virtue of a control rod. The pin and the control rod are connected by a connecting device, which has an axial seat carried by the pin, and a head interposed between the axial seat and the control rod, and which engages the axial seat to transmit to the pin a resultant of forces directed solely along the pin axis.

Abstract: A fuel injection system having a high-pressure fuel pump and a fuel injection valve connected to it for each cylinder of the internal combustion engine. A pump piston of the high-pressure fuel pump delimits a pump working chamber that is connected to a pressure chamber of the fuel injection valve, which has an injection valve element that controls injection openings and can be moved in an opening direction counter to a closing force by the pressure prevailing in the pressure chamber. A first control valve controls a connection of the pump working chamber to a relief chamber and a second control valve controls a connection of a control pressure chamber which communicates with the pump working chamber, to a relief chamber. A throttle restriction is respectively provided in connections of the control pressure chamber to the pump working chamber and the relief chamber.

Abstract: A fuel injector is provided with a lower nozzle body which is cooled with a small amount of metered fuel. In one embodiment, a blind passage is formed to extend from the upper portion to the lower end of the injector nozzle valve element. A transverse passage is formed in the nozzle valve element connecting the blind passage and the nozzle bore. Rail pressure causes a metered amount of fuel to flow through the nozzle bore, the transverse passage and upwardly along the blind passage to the drain passage. Inward cooling occurs by providing more surface area over which the fuel flows. In another embodiment, a sleeve is formed to fit over an existing nozzle to form a passage surrounding the injector tip. An orifice is located in the nozzle housing to connect the nozzle cavity with the annular passage thereby providing a small amount of fuel to drain.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, having a housing with a bore inside it that contains a longitudinally sliding outer valve needle which in turn contains a longitudinally sliding inner valve needle and the end of each valve needle oriented toward the combustion chamber controls at least one injection opening. The pressure in a control pressure chamber at least indirectly exerts a closing force on the outer valve needle and the pressure in a control pressure chamber at least indirectly exerts a closing force on the inner valve needle. The housing contains a control valve that has a valve chamber and a valve element contained in it, wherein the valve chamber has a connection to the leakage oil chamber a continuously open connection to the control chamber and a connection to the control pressure chamber.

Abstract: A fuel injector in an engine includes a spring cavity, a piston, a plunger, a spring, a fuel cavity, and a stop plate. The piston is hydraulically controlled to force the plunger down to compress fuel in the fuel cavity. However, under certain conditions, the plunger can contact the stop plate and/or the spring can become overcompressed. Both of these conditions can cause damage to the fuel injector. The present invention locates a pressure equalization channel in such a way as to dampen the motion of the piston to prevent this damage to the fuel injector.

Abstract: An injector for high-pressure injection of fuel in self-igniting internal combustion engines includes an actuator valve for opening and closing the injector; a nozzle needle, which in the closed state of the injector closes at least one injection opening; a metering valve, which establishes a hydraulic communication between the actuator valve and the relief chamber of the injector; a pressure holding device, which serves to maintain a static pressure required for the metering valve; and a first control quantity line for control quantities that flow via the actuator valve, and a second control quantity line for control quantities that flow via the metering valve. The pressure holding device dynamically separates the control quantities of the metering valve from the control quantities of the actuator valve by means of a hydraulic fluctuation damper.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve for an internal combustion engine which includes an axially moveable needle-like injection valve member 10 mounted in a tubular housing 2. A control element 22 with a control passage 25 is mounted in the upper end portion of the housing, and a valve element 21, 41, 46 is mounted for movement below the control element. A control chamber 20 is formed below the valve element, and a control piston 18 which is formed at the upper end of the valve member 10 bounds the lower side of the control chamber. A throttle passage 26, 42, 47 in the valve element is connected via a throttle constriction between the control passage 25 in the control element 22 and the control chamber 20. A throttle inlet 33, which is formed in the valve element 21 or in a sleeve 19 which laterally bounds the control chamber, is connected between a high pressure chamber 9 in the housing and the control chamber 20 without passage through an intermediate throttle point.

Abstract: A fuel injector for internal combustion engines having a control valve arranged upstream of a main flow valve is configured so that the connection leading over the control chamber between the inlet and outlet, which is regulated by the valve member of the control valve, directs the function of a throttle position, among other things, by way of a limit stop of the control piston against the front wall overlapping the control chamber for the purpose of reducing control leakage.

Abstract: A common rail injector is proposed which is very compact in structure and nevertheless brings high closing forces to bear at the end of the injection. This is attained, among other provisions, in that the closing piston has a larger diameter than the nozzle needle.

Abstract: A fuel injection device is so constructed that fuel fed from a pressure storage chamber to a valve housing (11) with a nozzle (14) is led to a needle valve back pressure chamber (16) through a groove (21) provided on the peripheral surface of a needle valve (17); a fuel pressure in the back pressure chamber (16) is controlled by opening and closing a pressure regulating port (13) provided in the valve housing by a pilot valve (38) so as to move the needle valve, whereby the nozzle is opened and closed. The pressure regulating port is opened and closed by a drive control of the pilot valve with a valve drive unit by means of elongation and contraction of the magnetostrictive rods attributable by the action of an external magnetic field. The magnetostrictive rods, consisting of first and second magnetostrictive rods (34 and 35), are axially arranged side by side in parallel to the pilot valve.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for incorporating feature substances into a still moist but already sufficiently consolidated paper web provides for directing a feature substance suspension onto the surface of the paper web as a laminar jet with low jet pressure. A special pressure control circuit ensures that the jet pressure is always constant regardless of the number of parallel feature substance suspension jets directed onto the paper web. This makes it possible to incorporate a great variety of line codings in paper under the same process conditions without any visible changes in fiber structure occurring in the paper.

Abstract: A fuel injector having a piezoelectric actuator. A needle valve is mounted in the injector body and has an opening hydraulic surface substantially surrounded by a high-pressure fuel line in fluid communication with a high-pressure fuel chamber. A control piston partly defines a piston control chamber, which is in fluid communication with the opening hydraulic surface and the high-pressure fuel chamber. The piezoelectric actuator is activated between an off position and an on position for positioning a control valve into an open position or a closed position. A high-pressure fuel condition is maintained in the piston control chamber by fuel supplied from the high-pressure fuel chamber and independent of any actuation of the control valve. In a low pressure fuel condition, a force on the opening hydraulic surface of the needle valve member is greater than the downward force on the closing hydraulic surface thereby opening the needle valve member for producing an injection event.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines having a fuel injection valve communicating with a high-pressure source includes a control valve, which has a valve body with a longitudinally displaceably guided control piston. The control piston is guided in a bush, which is surrounded at least partly inside the valve body by an annular chamber, which communicates with the high-pressure source.

Abstract: The injector has a cylindrical body, which houses an injection nozzle regulated by an injection valve provided with a moveable pin, a fuel supply channel, an injection chamber communicating with the fuel supply channel housing a lower portion of the pin and delimited at the bottom by a valve seat for the injection valve, a control chamber communicating with the fuel supply channel and housing an upper portion of the pin, and a control valve, which is of the poppet type and is actuated by an electromagnetic actuator in order to move between a closed position and an open position, in which it puts the control chamber in communication with a low-pressure fuel exhaust passage.

Abstract: A fuel injector for fuel injection systems in internal combustion engines. The injector includes a housing in which valves arranged in series are accommodated. One of the valves is actuated by an actuator assigned to the injector. Each of the valves is assigned a controllable control space, each having one inlet. The valves are designed as inwardly opening valves. One of the valves, which may be actuated by the actuator, acts by way of a spring package upon the other of the valves, which is under prestress by a first spring element.

Abstract: An injector, especially for common rail injection systems of Diesel engines, has a nozzle needle, a control piston for actuating the nozzle needle, a valve that actuates the control piston and that is triggered by via an outlet throttle and an inlet throttle, and a hydraulic stop for the control piston, such that the flow from the inlet throttle to the outlet throttle at the narrowest cross section can additionally be throttled. The control piston is embodied conically on its offset top side oriented toward the outlet throttle or the inlet throttle.

Abstract: A fuel injection system having a high-pressure pump and a fuel injection valve for each cylinder of the engine in which the pump has a work chamber, and the injection valve has a valve member movable in an opening direction counter to the force of a closing spring braced between the injection valve member and a displaceable storage piston that is acted upon, on its side remote from the closing spring, by the pressure in the pump work chamber. The storage piston is movable into a storage chamber counter to the force of the closing spring, and the deflection stroke motion of the storage piston is limited by a stop. The storage piston has one shaft portion of smaller cross section, disposed in an outset position in a connecting bore, and one portion of larger cross section disposed outside the connecting bore toward the pump work chamber, and upon the deflection stroke motion of the storage piston into the storage chamber, its shaft portion of larger cross section dips into the connecting bore.

Abstract: The invention relates to a unit injector system for supplying the combustion chamber of a self-igniting internal combustion engine with fuel. The unit injector system has a high-pressure chamber that can be subjected to pressure via a pump piston. A storage piston is received inside a storage chamber and is acted upon via a compression spring disposed in a spring holder. A return flow throttle element, which delays the buildup of pressure in the storage chamber, is disposed between the high pressure chamber and the storage chamber of the storage piston.

Abstract: An injection nozzle has a nozzle body, a nozzle needle that is supported displaceably in the nozzle body, a control chamber that communicates with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and a valve element that can open and close the fluid outlet. The control chamber is laterally defined by a displaceable ring which rests on the nozzle needle, and a closing spring presses the ring against the nozzle needle in fluid-tight fashion.

Abstract: A variable flow-rate ejector for precisely controlling the flow rate based on pressure is disclosed. The ejector has a simple mechanical structure which comprises a nozzle for ejecting a first fluid; a diffuser into which a second fluid is drawn due to a negative pressure produced around the first fluid, where the first and second fluids are merged; a third-fluid chamber formed by first and second diaphragms attached to the needle, and the body of the ejector; and a fourth-fluid chamber formed by the second diaphragm and the body. The area of an opening around the needle in the opening at the head of the nozzle is changed by displacement of the needle along the central axis according to movement of first and second diaphragms which move in accordance with the pressure produced by the first fluid, the third fluid, and the fourth fluid.

Abstract: An injector for injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine includes an injector body which is movable in a housing and whose vertical stroke motion relative to the housing is effected by a control chamber that can be pressure relieved via an actuator. Via the vertical stroke motion of the injector body, the closure or opening of a nozzle inlet line to the injection nozzle takes place. On the injector body, for stroke and/or pressure control of the injector, a first slide and a second slide are embodied, offset from one another.

Abstract: A fuel injector system (10) calculates a first derivative filtered signal and a second derivative filtered signal from an unpowered spool valve coil signal. When the spool valve (16) reaches the end of travel, either open or closed position, a flat slope f is generated on the falling edge of the bell shaped signal. The second derivative provides a readily apparent determination of when the steep slope occurs. A comparator (62) thereby need only determine when the second derivative is zero to identify that the spool valve has reached the end of travel.

Abstract: The fuel injection system has one high-pressure fuel pump and one fuel injection valve for one cylinder of the engine. The fuel pump has a work chamber, and the injection valve has a valve member, and which is movable in an opening direction, counter to the force of a closing spring, by the pressure in a pressure chamber communicating with the pump work chamber; the closing spring is braced between the injection valve member and a displaceable deflection piston which, defines a prechamber that communicates with the pump work chamber. The deflection piston is movable into a storage chamber counter to the force of the closing spring. The prechamber communicates with the pump work chamber via a first throttle restriction, and the pressure chamber of the fuel injection valve communicates with the pump work chamber via a second throttle restriction, circumventing the prechamber.

Abstract: A fuel injection system having a high-pressure pump and a fuel injection valve for each cylinder of the engine in which the pump has a work chamber, and the fuel injection valve has a valve member movable in an opening direction counter to the force of a closing spring braced between the injection valve member and a displaceable storage piston that is acted upon, on its side remote from the closing spring, by the pressure in the pump work chamber. The storage piston is movable into a storage chamber counter to the force of the closing spring and the deflection stroke motion of the storage piston is limited by a stop.

Abstract: The fuel injection system has one high-pressure fuel pump and one fuel injection valve, communicating with it, for each cylinder of the engine. The fuel pump piston is driven in by the engine and defines a pump work chamber communicating with a pressure chamber of the fuel injection valve. The fuel injection valve has a first hollow injection valve member movable in an opening direction counter to a closing force by the pressure prevailing in the pressure chamber to control at least one first injection opening. A second injection valve member is guided displaceably inside the first injection valve member and is movable counter to a closing force in an opening direction by the pressure prevailing in the pressure chamber member to control at least one second injection opening. One face is associated respectively with the first injection valve member and the second injection valve member and is acted upon by the pressure prevailing in a fuel-filled pressure chamber.

Abstract: An injection valve for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine has an injector needle guided inside the housing in such a way that it can be displaced longitudinally with a shaft in order to open and close the injection cross-sections. The injector needle is actuated by the fuel pressure which act upon the injector needle and by a closing spring acting in the closing direction of the injection needle. The closing spring is pre-compressed between abutments on the injector needle and the housing and is situated on the perimeter of the injector needle in the area between the injector needle guide and the valve seat. One advantage of the arrangement is the compact construction of the injection valve and the low dead volume of the control chamber on the reverse side of the injector needle.

Abstract: An injector for controlling fluids has a piezoelectric actuator and a hydraulic pressure intensifier. The hydraulic pressure intensifier is composed of a first piston, a second piston and a pressure chamber filled with fluid and situated between the two pistons. In addition, a control valve and a priming device are provided to replace the fluid loss in the pressure chamber caused by leakage. The priming device has a priming chamber filled with fluid, and leakage losses in the pressure chamber are replaced by fluid from the priming chamber during a return movement of the hydraulic pressure intensifier as a result of a displacement effect in the priming chamber created directly or indirectly by the first piston.

Abstract: Multi-stage intensifiers for injectors of pressurized fluid (e.g., fuel) allowing selection of intensified injection fluid pressure and thus fluid injection flow rate by selectively applying actuating fluid supply pressure to one or more of the multi-stage intensifiers. In a disclosed embodiment, two coaxial unequal sized intensifier pistons are used, with a control valve controlling selective pressurization of either the relatively smaller intensifier piston, or pressurization of both the relatively smaller intensifier piston and the relatively larger intensifier piston to control the intensified injection fluid pressure and flow rate of injection. Other embodiments, including ones using multi-stage intensifiers mechanically coupled together, controlled by different types of control valves and having more than two stages are also disclosed.

Abstract: A two-stage magnet valve for injectors of injection systems for internal combustion engines is proposed, which is very compact and simple in design, because an in-line connection of the first valve spring and a second valve spring can be avoided.

Abstract: For each cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the fuel injection apparatus has a high-pressure fuel pump and a fuel injection valve connected to it. A pump piston of the high-pressure fuel pump defines a pump working chamber, which is connected to a pressure chamber of the fuel injection valve, which has an injection valve member, which controls the injection openings and which the pressure prevailing in the pressure chamber can move in an opening direction, counter to a closing force. A first control valve controls a connection between the pump working chamber and a relief chamber, and a second control valve controls a connection between a relief chamber and a control pressure chamber connected to the pump working chamber. A control piston, which is connected to the injection valve member, divides the control pressure chamber into two separate partial chambers, which are connected to each other by means of a throttle restriction.

Abstract: This invention pertains generally to valve lift spacers that determine the travel distance of a valve member, such as movement between upper and lower seats. In the case of pressure switching valves, such as those used in the fuel injection industry, valve travel distance is often relatively small. Because of realistic machining tolerances, it is often difficult to mass produce valves that consistently exhibit comparable travel distances, especially when those distances are on the order of microns. The present invention addresses this issue by providing valve lift spacers with a variety of thicknesses in order to compensate for the inevitable variation that would otherwise be produced due to the various valve components having realistic geometrical tolerances. The valve lift spacer and a valve using the same finds a principal use in fast response pressure switching valves, such as those utilized in electro-hydraulic actuator portion of a fuel injector.

Abstract: A common rail injector is proposed which offers great freedom in designing the course of the preinjection main injection and of the injection pressure. Moreover, it offers improved security against leaks into the combustion chamber, caused for instance by a leaking nozzle needle valve seat.

Abstract: A fuel injector (1) for the direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator (6) and an hydraulic coupler (2), the coupler (2) having a master piston (3) and a slave piston (8), which are connected to a pressure chamber (14), and the pressure chamber (14) being filled with an hydraulic fluid. The pressure chamber (14) is sealed from an actuator chamber (21) by a first seal (12) and from a valve interior chamber (17) by a second seal (13).

Abstract: An injection nozzle of a stroke-controlled fuel injection device has a control chamber for triggering a nozzle needle and also has a nozzle chamber connectable to a pressure booster. The communication between a differential chamber of the pressure booster and a leakage line and the communication between a control chamber and a leakage line are controllable with the aid of a common valve.

Abstract: A fuel injector with a direct control needle valve has a closing hydraulic surface exposed to a control fluid, and an opening hydraulic surface exposed to fuel. The control fluid is different from the fuel. A vented annulus is positioned around the needle valve member between the control fluid chamber and the fuel chamber. An o-ring is positioned in a lower pressure region between the annulus and the control fluid chamber.

Abstract: A valve unit having a needle valve member, a control valve, a control line extending between the control valve and the needle valve member. Pressurized actuation fluid may be applied to the needle valve member via the control valve and the control line, in order to bias the needle valve member in a first direction. A vent passage is provided, which is fluidly connected to the control line between the needle valve member and the control valve. A valve element which is movably disposed in the control line and has a first position in which said vent passage is closed, and a second position in which said vent passage is open to the control line.

Abstract: An injector for injecting fuel, which is at high pressure, into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes valve body movably received in an injector housing, and a slide region is embodied on it. The valve body further includes a seat diameter, which cooperates with a seat face embodied on the housing and by way of which a nozzle inlet to a nozzle chamber of an injection nozzle can be opened and closed. The valve body is embodied as a 3/3-way control valve, by way of whose slide region a control chamber that varies the stroke of a nozzle needle can be controlled.

Abstract: A valve for controlling fluids, having an inflow line and a leak fuel line, which each communicate with a pressure chamber. A piston element is adjustable by a control element and opens and closes a first passage between the inflow line and the pressure chamber. The piston element has a slide element, which is disposed directly at the seat of the piston element. The stroke length of the slide element for opening the first passage is greater than or equal to the stroke length for closing a second passage between the pressure chamber and the leak fuel line.

Abstract: A common rail for an accumulation type fuel injection system is formed of a plurality of pipe connectors in the form of a cross or a tee and a connecting pipe for connecting the pipe connectors with each other. Respective ends of the pipe connector provide pipe connecting portions, to which a pump pipe and injector pipes are connected, and another pipe connecting portion, to which the connecting pipe is connected. Insides of the pipe connectors and the connecting pipe provide a volume portion for accumulating high-pressure fuel. Thus, conventionally required welding technology is not required. Therefore, production cost of the common rail is reduced. Meanwhile, the size of the common rail is reduced and the common rail is mounted to a vehicle more easily.

Abstract: A fuel injector is provided which is designed to suppress unwanted vibrations of a nozzle needle-actuating piston, thereby avoiding the injection of an excess quantity of fuel. The fuel injector comprises an actuator and a displacement amplifying chamber filled with fluid to which a large-diameter piston and a small-diameter piston working as the nozzle needle-actuating piston are exposed. The displacement amplifying chamber works to amplify and transmit displacement of the large-diameter piston by the actuator to the small-diameter piston. The fuel injector also includes a stopper which restricts movement of the small-diameter piston toward the displacement amplifying chamber to a given range, thereby suppressing the unwanted vibrations of the small-diameter piston.

Abstract: The invention relates to a common rail injector for injecting fuel in a common rail injection system of an internal combustion engine, which system has an injector housing (1) with a fuel inlet (24) that is in communication with a central high-pressure fuel reservoir outside the injector housing (1) and with a pressure chamber (27) inside the injector housing (1), from which fuel subjected to high pressure is injected as a function of the position of a control valve (18) that assures that a nozzle needle (8), which is movable back and forth and received in a longitudinal bore (6) of the injector axially counter to the prestressing force of a nozzle spring (21) that is received in a nozzle spring chamber (20), lifts from a seat when the pressure in the pressure chamber (27) is greater than the pressure in a control chamber (30) that communicates with the fuel inlet (24) via an inlet throttle (19).