IP Library Granted Patent US 10,704,518
Granted Patent B2
US 10,704,518 · App. 16/012,275 · Granted Jul 7, 2020

Spark-ignition direct fuel injection valve

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Patent No.
US 10,704,518
App. No.
16/012,275
Granted
Jul 7, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A spark-ignition direct fuel injection valve includes, at least, a seat member provided with a fuel injection hole and a valve seat and a valve body which controls fuel injection from the injection hole by contacting and separating from the valve seat. In the spark-ignition direct fuel injection valve: the injection hole has an injection hole inlet which is open inwardly of the seat member and an injection hole outlet which is open outwardly of the seat member; an opening edge of the injection hole inlet has a first round-chamfered portion formed on an upstream side with respect to a fuel flow toward the injection hole inlet; and an extending length (L) of the injection hole does not exceed three times a hole diameter (D) of the injection hole.

Claims (15)

1. A spark-ignition direct fuel injection valve, comprising,

a seat member provided with a fuel injection hole; and

a valve body which controls fuel injection from the fuel injection hole by selectively contacting and separating from a valve seat,

wherein the fuel injection hole has a fuel injection hole inlet which is open inwardly of the seat member and a fuel injection hole outlet which is open outwardly of the seat member,

wherein an opening edge of the fuel injection hole inlet of the fuel injection hole has a round-chamfered portion,

wherein the seat member has an expanded opening which is expanded in cross sectional area outwardly from the fuel injection hole outlet such that a distance from a front end side of the seat member to a side wall portion on the front end side of the extended opening is a same distance as a distance from an end side opposite to the front-end side to a side wall portion opposite to the front end side of the extended opening,

wherein a length of the fuel injection hole is longer than a length of the expanded opening in an injection axis direction,

wherein the cross-sectional area of the fuel injection hole is continuously smaller from the round-chamfered portion of the fuel injection hole inlet to the fuel injection hole outlet,

wherein a width of the expanded opening in a radial direction is formed larger than a width of an end of the round-chamfered portion,

wherein the expanded opening expands stepwise outwardly from the fuel injection hole outlet, and has a cross-sectional area of a single rectangle,

wherein a width of a side of the single rectangle that extends in the radial direction is larger than a width of an outer end of the round-chamfered portion, and

wherein the fuel injection hole outlet is separated by a distance from a side of the single rectangle that extends perpendicular to the radial direction, and a width of the fuel injection hole outlet is smaller than the distance.

2. The spark-ignition direct fuel injection valve according to claim 1 ,

wherein an extending length of the fuel injection hole is three or less times a hole diameter of the fuel injection hole.

3. The spark-ignition direct fuel injection valve according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel injection hole has a diameter D measured at a boundary between the round-chamfered portion and a side surface of the fuel injection hole, the fuel injection hole has a length L, and a relationship L/D≤3 is satisfied.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 30, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058481/0935 →