IP Library Granted Patent US 9,103,311
Granted Patent B2
US 9,103,311 · App. 14/232,725 · Granted Aug 11, 2015

Fuel injection valve

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Patent No.
US 9,103,311
App. No.
14/232,725
Granted
Aug 11, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

Fuel injection valve with conical valve seat surface that abuts a valve body to seal fuel, fuel injection orifices having an inlet opening formed on the valve seat surface, wherein fuel sprays injected from the plurality of fuel injection orifices include a first fuel spray constituted by a fuel spray injected from at least one fuel injection orifice and a second fuel spray constituted by a plurality of fuel sprays injected at an outer periphery of the first fuel spray, and a fuel injection orifice that injects the first fuel spray constituted with a plane that includes an orifice axis connecting a center of an inlet with a center of an outlet of the fuel injection orifice, parallel to a center axis of the fuel injection valve intersecting a plane, a conical apex that forms the valve seat surface to form an inclination angle that is larger than 0°.

Claims (10)

1. A fuel injection valve comprising:

a conical valve seat surface that abuts a valve body to seat fuel; and

a plurality of fuel injection orifices having an inlet opening formed on the valve seat surface,

wherein fuel sprays injected from the plurality of fuel injection orifices include a first fuel spray constituted by a fuel spray injected from at least one fuel injection orifice and a second fuel spray constituted by a plurality of fuel sprays injected at an outer periphery of the first fuel spray, and

a fuel injection orifice that injects the first fuel spray is constituted such that a plane that includes an orifice axis connecting a center of an inlet with a center of an outlet of the fuel injection orifice and is parallel to a center axis of the fuel injection valve intersects a plane including a straight line passing through the center of the inlet of the fuel injection orifice and a conical apex that forms the valve seat surface as well as the center axis of the fuel injection valve to form an inclination angle that is larger than 0°.

2. The fuel injection valve according to claim 1 , wherein the second fuel spray is injected along one virtual cone surface.

3. The fuel injection valve according to claim 2 , wherein the second fuel spray is injected such that each spray injected from the fuel injection orifices is dispersed in a circumferential direction.

4. The fuel injection valve according to claim 3 , wherein the first fuel spray includes a plurality of fuel sprays that are injected from a plurality of fuel injection orifices.

5. The fuel injection valve according to claim 4 , wherein the plurality of fuel sprays that constitute the first fuel spray are injected so as to be dispersed in a circumferential direction along a virtual cone surface that is different from the one virtual cone surface.

6. The fuel injection valve according to claim 3 , wherein the center of the inlet opening of the fuel injection orifice that injects the first spray is separated without contacting a plane of symmetry that symmetrically divides the second spray in half.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 25, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 056299/0447 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 14, 2014
From: YASUKAWA, YOSHIHITO; ABE, MOTOYUKI; EHARA, HIDEHARU; ISHIKAWA, TOHRU; ISHII, EIJII
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 031962/0711 →