IP Library Granted Patent US 11,591,994
Granted Patent B2
US 11,591,994 · App. 16/652,758 · Granted Feb 28, 2023

Fuel injection device

Inventors: Masashi Sugaya (Hitachinaka, JP); Takao Miyake (Hitachinaka, JP); Yasuo Namaizawa (Hitachinaka, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
F02M61/04B05B1/3053F02M61/20
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Patent No.
US 11,591,994
App. No.
16/652,758
Granted
Feb 28, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

For a fuel injection device, a configuration to improve fuel sealability when a valve is closed is provided. Therefore, the fuel injection device includes: a valve body that opens and closes a fuel flow path; a movable iron core in which a fuel passage hole communicating an upstream side and a downstream side is formed, and that operates the valve body toward the upstream side; a biasing spring whose one end contacts the movable iron core, and that biases the movable iron core in a valve opening direction; and a regulating unit that regulates movement of the one end of the biasing spring, in which the shortest distance between the one end of the biasing spring and the fuel passage hole is larger than a radial travel distance of the one end until radial movement of the one end is regulated by the regulating unit.

Claims (21)

1. A fuel injection device comprising:

a valve body configured to open and close a fuel flow path;

a movable iron core in which a fuel passage hole for communicating an upstream side and a downstream side is formed, and that is configured to operate the valve body toward the upstream side;

a biasing spring whose upper end portion contacts the movable iron core, and that biases the movable iron core in a valve opening direction;

a regulator configured to regulate movement of the upper end portion of the biasing spring; and

a nozzle body, wherein

a shortest radial distance between the upper end portion of the biasing spring and the fuel passage hole is larger than a radial travel distance of the upper end portion until radial movement of the upper end portion is regulated by the regulator,

wherein the upper end portion has a smaller radial diameter than that of a lower end portion of the biasing spring below the upper end portion,

the upper end portion is entirely radially inward from the fuel passage hole,

the upper end portion having a constant radial diameter, and the lower end portion having a constant radial diameter,

wherein the upper end portion and the lower end portion are arranged to form a gap between the lower end portion and an inner peripheral portion of the nozzle body, and to form a gap between the upper end portion and an outer peripheral portion of the valve body,

wherein the gap between the lower end portion of the biasing spring and the inner peripheral portion of the nozzle body is narrower than the gap between the upper end portion of the biasing spring and the outer peripheral portion of the valve body.

2. The fuel injection device according to claim 1 , wherein

when a central axis of the biasing spring and a central axis of the valve body are on the same axis line, the shortest radial distance between the upper end portion and the fuel passage hole is larger than the radial travel distance of the upper end portion.

3. The fuel injection device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the regulator is the outer peripheral portion of the valve body; and

when the upper end portion of the biasing spring is located radially inward with respect to the fuel passage hole, the shortest radial distance between an outer peripheral portion of the upper end portion of the biasing spring and an innermost peripheral portion of the fuel passage hole is larger than the radial travel distance of the upper end portion of the biasing spring, the radial travel distance being between an inner peripheral portion of the upper end portion and the outer peripheral portion of the valve body.

4. The fuel injection device according to claim 1 , wherein

an outer diameter of the biasing spring is reduced from the lower end portion of the biasing spring opposite to the upper end portion toward the upper end portion.

5. The fuel injection device according to claim 4 , wherein

in the biasing spring, an axial length of the upper end portion is larger than an axial length of the upper lower end portion.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 2, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 057655/0824 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 1, 2020
From: SUGAYA, MASASHI; MIYAKE, TAKAO; NAMAIZAWA, YASUO
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 052282/0781 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-225012 · Nov 22, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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