Fuel injection valve

• US 8,191,800 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2009
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Kazunori, Aota, Masayuki, Munezane, Tsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): BOECKMANN, JASON J
• Application Number:
  US12/355,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20090272824A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• Field of Search: 239/533.12, 239/585.3, 239596-599, 239/601
• US Class Current: 239/533.12
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 51/061 using electromagnetic operating means
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 61/1813 Discharge orifices having different orientations with respect to valve member direction of movement, e.g. orientations being such that fuel jets emerging from discharge orifices collide with each other
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 61/1846 Dimensional characteristics of discharge orifices

Abstract

A fuel injection valve has a first and a second injection ports whose central axes are parallel to each other, the central axis of the second injection port is out of alignment with respect to the central axis of the first injection port so that, when the largest length M1 of a longer-side line along which a plane including the central axis of the valve seat member and the central axis of the second injection port intersects with an inner wall of the second injection port is larger than the shortest length M2 of a shorter-side line along which the above plane intersects with an inner wall of the second injection port, the distance W1 from the inner wall of the first injection port to the longer-side line of the second injection port as measured within the plane is larger than the distance W2 from the inner wall of the first injection port to the shorter-side line of the second injection port as measured within the plane.

Claims

1. A fuel injection valve comprising:

an electromagnetic solenoid assembly, and

a valve main body including a valve body operated by said electromagnetic solenoid assembly to be brought into and out of contact with a valve seat of a valve seat member for controlling the injection of fuel from an injection port having an axis inclined relative to an end face of said valve seat member;

wherein

said injection port includes a first injection port disposed at a downstream side of said valve seat, and a second injection port disposed at a downstream side of said first injection port and having a diameter larger than that of said first injection port;

central axis of said first injection port and central axis of said second injection port being parallel to each other;

a bottom wall of said second injection port intersecting with the central axis of said first injection port; and

wherein

the central axis of said second injection port is out of alignment with respect to the central axis of said first injection port so that W1>

W2 is established when M1>

M2,

where M1 is the largest length of a longer-side line along which a plane including the central axis of said valve seat member and the central axis of said second injection port intersects with an inner wall of said second injection port;

M2 is the smallest length of a shorter-side line along which said plane intersects with an inner wall of said second injection port;

W1 is the distance from the inner wall of said first injection port to said longer-side line of said second injection port as measured within said plane; and

where

W2 is the distance from the inner wall of said first injection port to said shorter-side line of said second injection port as measured within said plane, wherein W2>

0,

wherein the longer-side line and the shorter-side line of the second injection port extend perpendicular to an extending direction of the distances W1 and W2.

2. A fuel injection valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second injection port is eccentric relative to said first injection port by an amount of (W1−

W2)/2 in the direction toward the longer-side line within said plane.

3. A fuel injection valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein a relationship W1/M1=W1/M2 is established.

4. A fuel injection valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein M2>

0 is established.

5. A fuel injection valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second injection port is at least partially cylindrical.

6. A fuel injection valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second injection port is at least partially tapered spreading toward the injection end.