Fuel injection valve
View Patent ↗Recent exhaust gas regulation requires reduction of an amount and quantity of particulate matter included in an exhaust gas, and a normal maximum fuel pressure may be increased to approximately 35 MP. When the normal maximum fuel pressure is 35 MPa, a fuel injection valve is required to work for example at a pressure up to 45 MPa. In such a condition, a fluid force may exceed a valve opening force depending on a seat diameter, and a needle valve cannot be kept open and closed, when opening thereof is required. In order to solve the above problems, a fuel injection valve according to the present invention includes a valve seat portion, a valve body which is seated on or separated from the valve seat portion, an injection hole which is formed on a downstream side from the valve seat portion, and a guide portion which is formed on an upstream side from the valve seat portion seating a valve body seat portion of the valve body to guide a guided portion on a downstream side of the valve body, in which the valve seat portion is formed to have a dimension in a crossing direction crossing an axial direction of 0.4 to 0.8 times a dimension of the guide portion in the crossing direction.
1. A fuel injection valve, comprising:
a valve seat portion;
a valve body which is seated on or separated from the valve seat portion, the valve body including a valve guided portion and a valve-body seat portion;
an injection hole which is formed on a downstream side from the valve seat portion; and
a guide portion which guides the valve guided portion on a downstream side of the valve body, the guide portion being formed on an upstream side from the valve seat portion with which the valve-body seat portion of the valve body makes abutment contact,
wherein the valve-body seat portion has a shape of a first spherical segment, and the valve guided portion has a shape of a second spherical segment, and
wherein a radius of curvature of the valve-body seat portion is different from a radius of curvature of the valve guided portion, and a center of the radius of curvature of the valve-body seat portion and a center of the radius of curvature of the valve guided portion coincide with each other.
2. The fuel injection valve according to claim 1 , wherein the valve-body seat portion has a spherical surface diameter φS which is 0.4 to 0.8 times of a spherical surface diameter φD of the valve guided portion.
3. The fuel injection valve according to claim 1 , wherein the injection hole is formed in an injection hole cup provided at a downstream end, and the guide portion guiding the valve guided portion on the downstream side of the valve body is formed in the injection hole cup.
4. The fuel injection valve according to claim 1 , wherein the radius of curvature of the valve-body seat portion is 0.7 to 1.5 times the radius of curvature of the valve guided portion.
5. The fuel injection valve according to claim 1 , wherein the radius of curvature of the valve-body seat portion is smaller than the radius of curvature of the valve guided portion.
6. A fuel injection valve comprising:
a valve seat;
a valve body which is seated on or separated from the valve seat, the valve body including a valve guided portion and a valve-body seat portion;
an injection hole which is formed on a downstream side of the valve seat; and
a guide portion which is formed on an upstream side from a valve seat portion of the valve seat seating the valve body to guide the valve guided portion on a downstream side of the valve body,
wherein the valve-body seat portion of the valve body abutting on the valve seat portion has a shape which is part of a spherical surface of a first sphere having a diameter φS, and the valve guided portion has a shape which is part of a spherical surface of a second sphere having a diameter φD, and
wherein a center of the first sphere and a center of the second sphere coincide with each other, and the diameter φS of the first sphere is different from the diameter φD of the second sphere.
7. The fuel injection valve according to claim 6 , wherein the diameter φS is 0.4 to 0.8 times of the diameter φD.
8. The fuel injection valve according to claim 6 , wherein the center of a curvature radius of the valve guided portion and the center of a curvature radius of the valve-body seat portion coincide with each other.
9. The fuel injection valve according to claim 6 , wherein a curvature radius of the valve-body seat portion is 0.7 to 1.5 times a curvature radius of the valve guided portion.
10. The fuel injection valve according to claim 6 , wherein a curvature radius of the valve-body seat portion is not larger than a curvature radius of the valve guided portion.