Nozzle assembly and fuel injection valve for a combustion engine

• US 10,197,034 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2015
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Saliu, Marco, Canesi, Nicola, Matteucci, Luca, Mechi, Marco
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Chee-Chong
• Assistant Examiner(s): Greenlund, Joseph A
• Application Number:
  US15/111,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20160333839A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,484 Days
• Field of Search: 239584, 2395332, 239 96
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 2200/06 Fuel-injection apparatus having means for preventing coking, e.g. of fuel injector discharge orifices or valve needles
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 51/0664 having a cylindrically or partly cylindrically shaped armature, e.g. entering the winding; having a plate-shaped or undulated armature entering the winding
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 61/18 Injection nozzles, e.g. having valve seats; Details of valve member seated ends, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 61/1806 characterised by the arrangement of discharge orifices, e.g. orientation or size
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 61/188 Spherical or partly spherical shaped valve member ends
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 61/1886 Details of valve seats not covered by groups F02M61/1866 - F02M61/188

Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to nozzles for a valve and, more specifically, to a fuel injection valve for a combustion engine. In some embodiments, a nozzle assembly for a fuel injection valve for a combustion engine may include: a valve body with a central longitudinal axis; a valve cavity within the valve body; a nozzle tip body comprising a protrusion limiting a free volume of the valve cavity; and at least one nozzle aperture out from the valve cavity through the protrusion. The protrusion may extend from an end surface of the nozzle tip body in an extending direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle tip body away from the valve cavity and comprise a first section adjacent to the end surface, the first section having a cylindrical outer surface, and a second section adjacent to the first section, the second section having an outer surface of decreasing diameter in the course away from the end surface along the extending direction.

Claims

1. A nozzle assembly for a fuel injection valve for a combustion engine, the nozzle assembly comprising:

a valve body with a central longitudinal axis;

a valve cavity within the valve body; and

a nozzle tip body comprising a protrusion limiting a free volume of the valve cavity;

wherein the protrusion extends from an end surface of the nozzle tip body in an extending direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle tip body away from the valve cavity; and

the protrusion comprises a first section adjacent to the end surface, the first section having a cylindrical outer surface, and a second section adjacent to the first section, the second section having an outer surface of decreasing diameter in the course away from the end surface along the extending direction and terminating in a round end opposite the first section;

the protrusion defines a valve seat for receiving a nozzle needle;

a plurality of nozzle apertures extending out from the valve cavity through the protrusion at a location downstream from the valve seat, wherein a wall thickness of the protrusion in a location of each nozzle aperture is between 0.3 mm to 0.5 mm, inclusive, and

wherein the round end of the second section of the protrusion comprises a radius in between 3.0 mm and 5.0 mm, inclusive,

such that the radius of the round end of the second section of the protrusion is at least 6 times as large as the wall thickness of the protrusion in the locations of the nozzle apertures, to thereby define similar longitudinal aperture lengths for the plurality of nozzle apertures.

2. A nozzle assembly according to claim 1, wherein the second section comprises a conical outer surface.

3. A nozzle assembly according to claim 2, wherein a cone angle of the conical outer surface is in between 130°

and 150°

, inclusive.

4. A nozzle assembly according to claim 2, wherein the round end of the second section is located subsequent to the conical outer surface in the course away from the end surface along the extending direction.

5. A nozzle assembly according to claim 1, wherein the protrusion has a length, starting from the end surface and parallel to the extending direction, between 0.7 mm and 1.5 mm, inclusive.

6. A nozzle assembly according to claim 1, wherein the first section has a length, starting from the end surface and parallel to the extending direction, between 0.3 mm and 0.8 mm, inclusive.

7. A nozzle assembly according to claim 1, wherein an outside-diameter of the first section perpendicular to the extending direction has a value between 4.0 mm and 4.5 mm, inclusive.

8. A nozzle assembly according to claim 1, further comprising a rounded interface between the first section and the second section.

9. A nozzle assembly according to claim 1, further comprising a rounded interface between the end surface and the first section.

10. A nozzle assembly for a fuel injection valve, the assembly comprising:

a valve body with a central longitudinal axis;

a valve cavity defined within the valve body;

a nozzle tip body including a protrusion extending from an end surface of the nozzle tip body parallel to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle tip body and away from the valve cavity;

a first section of the protrusion adjacent to the end surface, the first section comprising a cylindrical outer surface;

a second section of the protrusion adjacent the first section and further away from the end surface, the second section comprising a conical outer surface with an outer diameter decreasing in a direction along the longitudinal axis away from the first section terminating in a round end opposite the first section; and

wherein the protrusion defines a valve seat for receiving a nozzle needle;

a plurality of nozzle apertures, each extending from the valve cavity through the protrusion at a location downstream from the valve seat;

wherein a length of the first section measured from the end surface parallel to the longitudinal axis is between 0.3 mm and 0.8 mm, inclusive;

a outside diameter of the first section measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis is between 4.0 mm and 4.5 mm, inclusive;

a cone angle of the second section is between 130 and 150 degrees, inclusive; and

a radius of the round end of the second section of the protrusion is between 3.0 mm and 5.0 mm, inclusive;

wherein the radius of the round end of the second section of the protrusion is at least 6 times as large as a wall thickness of the protrusion in a location of each of the plurality of nozzle apertures, to thereby define similar longitudinal aperture lengths for the plurality of nozzle apertures.