Fuel injection valve

US6681999B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Ruehle · Ditzingen, DE
• Hubert Stier · Asperg, DE
• Matthias Boee · Ludwigsburg, DE
• Guenther Hohl · Stuttgart, DE
• Norbert Keim · Besigheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 20, 2001
• Grant date: Jan 27, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 27, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel injector, in particular a fuel injector for fuel systems of internal combustion engines, has a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator, a valve needle operated by the actuator by way of a hydraulic temperature compensation device, and a valve closing body operated by the valve needle and cooperating with a valve seat face to form a scaling seat. The temperature compensation device includes a needle driving sleeve which surrounds a valve needle shoulder of the valve needle and, together with a needle driving shoulder, surrounds the valve needle in sections. In addition, the needle driving sleeve together with the valve needle encloses a temperature compensation space, and the temperature compensation space is connected to a fuel inlet of the fuel injector through a directional valve for filling the temperature compensation space with fuel.