EP0215527B1 - Elektromagnetisches Brennstoffeinspritzventil für Verbrennungsmotoren und dessen Herstellungsverfahren - Google Patents
Elektromagnetisches Brennstoffeinspritzventil für Verbrennungsmotoren und dessen Herstellungsverfahren Download PDFInfo
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- EP0215527B1 EP0215527B1 EP86201589A EP86201589A EP0215527B1 EP 0215527 B1 EP0215527 B1 EP 0215527B1 EP 86201589 A EP86201589 A EP 86201589A EP 86201589 A EP86201589 A EP 86201589A EP 0215527 B1 EP0215527 B1 EP 0215527B1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
- F02M51/00—Fuel-injection apparatus characterised by being operated electrically
- F02M51/06—Injectors peculiar thereto with means directly operating the valve needle
- F02M51/061—Injectors peculiar thereto with means directly operating the valve needle using electromagnetic operating means
- F02M51/0625—Injectors peculiar thereto with means directly operating the valve needle using electromagnetic operating means characterised by arrangement of mobile armatures
- F02M51/0664—Injectors peculiar thereto with means directly operating the valve needle using electromagnetic operating means characterised by arrangement of mobile armatures having a cylindrically or partly cylindrically shaped armature, e.g. entering the winding; having a plate-shaped or undulated armature entering the winding
- F02M51/0667—Injectors peculiar thereto with means directly operating the valve needle using electromagnetic operating means characterised by arrangement of mobile armatures having a cylindrically or partly cylindrically shaped armature, e.g. entering the winding; having a plate-shaped or undulated armature entering the winding the armature acting as a valve or having a short valve body attached thereto
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- the present invention relates to an electroinjector for feeding fuel to an internal combustion engine, and to a process for the manufacturing thereof.
- the invention relates to an electroinjector of the type comprising an encasing body, inside of which a cylindrical core is positioned of ferromagnetic material, at least partly surrounded by an actuator coil, a movable armature of ferromagnetic material, having a substantially hollow cylindrical shape and bearing at one of its ends a closure element suitable to interrupt, in one position of said armature, the passage of fuel through an injection nozzle under the action of a return spring, and an annular shoulder element of impact-resistant and at least partly amagnetic material, rigid with the core and projecting from an end surface thereof such as to act as a stop shoulder for an opposite end of said armature in another position of said armature in which the closure element leaves open the fuel passage through the injection nozzle, the armature being guided by a small tube rigidly inserted in a hollow cylindrical portion of the core and protruding therefrom and the annular shoulder element being driven on the end portion of the cylindrical portion of the core with diametrical interference, the outer diameter of said end portion
- the annular shoulder element which instead of being mounted on the outer cylindrical wall of the end portion of the core may also be mounted on an inner cylindrical wall thereof, may be partly split in a longitudinal direction to allow elastic forcing of the annular element on the core into its final position, or it may be assembled against a shoulder provided on the end portion of the core, so arranged to cause the annular element to axially project from the end surface of the core by the desired amount.
- the end surface of the annular shoulder element which may be hardened by a coating of a hard material, preferably titanium nitride, may be rounded or inclined through a certain angle instead of being flat and perpendicular to the axis of the element, so as to limit the contact area between the armature and the annular shoulder element in operation.
- a hard material preferably titanium nitride
- an electric commutator for pneumatic signals which comprises, like an electroinjector, a cylindrical core of ferromagnetic material surrounded by a coil, and a movable armature the axial position of which relative to the core is influenced by the energisation of the coil.
- An annular shoulder element of amagnetic material is fixed on the core and projects therefrom to act as a stop for the armature.
- an electroinjector of the type having a cylindrical core of ferromagnetic material and an armature movable relative thereto in an axial direction upon energisation of a coil surrounding the core is known from FR-A 2 532 005.
- the armature is slidingly guided by a guide tube secured inside the cylindrical core and projecting therefrom.
- a washer housed inside the armature near its lower end defines the stroke of the armature by abutting against the lower end of the guide tube.
- This construction has even more critical problems of tolerances because the clearance between the armature and the core depends not only from the exact fixing position of the guide tube with respect to the end of the core in axial direction, but also from the exact fixing position of the washer with respect to the upper end of the armature in axial direction.
- the purpose of the present invention is to provide an electroinjector of the type mentioned in the introduction, which can be obtained in a mass-production at competitive costs, while guaranteeing the observance of particularly precise dimensions, but without requiring the observance of severe tolerances for the dimensions of the individual components, but allowing on the contrary medium-precision processes to be adopted for components machining.
- the above mentioned purpose is achieved in that in an electroinjector of the type mentioned in the introduction, the core has an approximately conically shaped transient zone between the smaller diameter core portion on which the annular shoulder element is driven, and the greater-diameter core portion, said transient zone being plastically deformed by the end of the annular shoulder element which penetrates in a generally axial direction of the core into said transient zone.
- the plastic deformation is accomplished in the step of assembling the annular shoulder element on the core, by applying an impulsive action in an axial direction onto the annular shoulder element driven on the core, the action being such as to cause a plastic deformation of the transient zone of the core in a generally axial direction.
- a deformable washer element is interposed in axial direction between the annular shoulder element and a stop shoulder of the core, the washer element having an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the cylindrical portion of said core and being pressed onto the stop shoulder thereby having a plastically deformed end portion overlapping the periphery of said stop shoulder.
- manufacturing of the electroinjector is accomplished by interposing the washer shoulder element and the stop shoulder of the core and then applying an impulsive action onto the annular shoulder element in an axial direction thereof such as to cause a plastic deformation of the washer element in a generally axial direction thereof.
- the component elements (the core and the annular element) manufactured with medium- precision processes, which would allow a dimensional variability of the clearance of, e.g., 150 ⁇ , are made assume, in the assembly step, mutual positions securing the observance of the dimensions required for the correct operating of the electroinjector.
- the low ratio existing between the fitting length and the diameter of the annular element secures, in the driving step, also the parallelism and the normality of the two elements being assembled.
- an electroinjector of the type being the object of the present invention comprises a cylindrical core 10 of ferromagnetic material, housed inside an encasing body 11, it too of ferromagnetic material, and extending to the outside of the body 11 to form a fitting 10a to connect the injector to a fuel feed.
- a movable armature 12 of ferromagnetic material is coaxially associated, which, together with the core 10 and the body 11, forms a magnetic circuit.
- the core 10 is at least partly surrounded by a coil 13, wound around a bobbin 14, which is electrically fed, with intermittent drive, by means of conductors 15 partly embedded in a cap of plastics 16.
- the movable armature 12 bears a closure element 17 with the interposition of a washer 18, and is guided by a tube 19 rigidly inserted in a hollow cylindrical portion of the core 10, but protruding out of it.
- a spring 20 keeps the closure element 17 normally pressed against the shoulder of an injection nozzle 21, provided with a calibrated bore for the outlet of the fuel.
- the spring 20 reacts against a sleeve 22 inserted with interference inside the core 10 and centrally open to allow the flow of the fuel.
- annular spacer 23 is placed, substantially defining the stroke of the armature 12, which on its side facing towards the core 10 comes to stop against an annular shoulder element 24, of impact-resistant material, and at least partly amagnetic, mounted on the end portion of the cylindrical portion of the core 10 so as to axially protrude from the end of core 10.
- annular shoulder element 24 of impact-resistant material, and at least partly amagnetic, mounted on the end portion of the cylindrical portion of the core 10 so as to axially protrude from the end of core 10.
- the outer diameter of said end portion in smaller than the outer diameter of the cylindrical portion of the core 10 and the outer diameter of the annular shoulder element 24 is greater than the outer diameter of the cylindrical portion of the core 10. Owing to axial protrusion of element 24, a small clearance T, fig.
- annular shoulder element 24 guarantees that phenomena of magnetic and/or hydraulic sticking, detrimental to the purpose of a quick closure of the injector, do not occur.
- the hydraulic tightness is secured by seal rings 25, 26 and 36.
- the fuel fed through the sleeve 22, arrives to bores 27 of the core 10 and then to bores 28 of the armature 12, from which the fuel flows to the outside of the nozzle 21.
- the annular element 24, manufactured with medium precision, is driven on the end portion of the cylindrical portion of the core 10, it too manufactured with medium precision, by diametrical interference up to a certain axial position, and is then fixed in position by plastic deformation of a portion of the core 10 in an essentially axial direction, or by plastic deformation of an element interposed in axial direction between the annular element 24 and the core 10.
- the core 10 is provided, its end portion on which the annular element 24 is to be driven, with an annular groove 29 between a smaller-diameter core portion 30 and a greater-diameter core portion 31, this latter being radiused to the main cylindrical portion of the core 10.
- An approximately conically shaped transient zone is provided between the groove 29 and the portion 31 and represents in this embodiment the portion which on the end assemblage of the annular element 24 undergoes the plastic deformation, as it can be observed by comparing figs. 3 and 4, from which it can be noted that the transient zone is plastically deformed by the end of the annular shoulder element 24 which penetrates in a generally axial direction of the core 10 into said transient zone.
- the affixing in the end position is carried out by means of an impulsive action on the annular element 24 with the interposition of a pusher 32, having a stem which is driven inside the core 10, and a head which rests against the front end of the annular element 24.
- the head of the pusher 32 is advantageously provided, on its face facing the stem, with an annular step portion 44 of height H and of outer diameter slightly less than the inner diameter of the annular element 24, which step portion 44, by coming to rest against the front end surface of the core 10, determines the end of the axial stroke of pusher 32 and, consequently, the value of the end protrusion, or clearance T of fig. 2, of the annular element 24 from the front end surface of said core.
- the dimension H of the step portion 44 is slightly different from the dimension T of desired clearance. Even in the complete absence of the step portion 44, a clearance T shall hence be formed, even if of the order of a few hundredths of millimeter only.
- a tool which can be advantageously used for manufacturing the injector by providing said impulsive action is illustrated in figs. 7 and 8. It comprises a stationary support 33, on the upper part of which a mass 35 is hinged on a hinge 34, through a supporting rod 37. To the lower portion of the support 33, the core 10 is fixed in a correspondingly shaped seat 38, in such a way that the front end of the core 10, on which the annular element 24 has to be mounted, protrudes from the side facing towards the mass 35 on the trajectory of the same mass 35.
- the core 10 is fixed by means of a ring nut 39 screwed down in a sleeve 40 fastened on the support 33.
- a pin 41 is centrally fastened, suitable to act axially on the pusher 32 inserted in the core 10.
- the arrangement is in fact such that the axis of the core 10 and of the annular element 24 coincides with the tangent to the trajectory of the centre of the pin 41 in the lowermost point of the same trajectory.
- the annular element 24 can be driven on the core 10 by means of static pre- driving by press with a force of 90-110 kg, and the dynamic end driving can be obtained with a work of 0.07 kgm.
- the plastic deformation is envisaged to occur on a deformable washer element 42, e.g., a copper washer, axially interposed between the annular shoulder element 24 and a flat stop shoulder 43 provided on the core 10, extending crosswise relatively to the axis of core 10.
- the washer element 42 has an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the cylindrical portion of the core 10 and is pressed onto the stop shoulder 43 thereby having a plastically deformed end portion overlapping the periphery of the stop shoulder 43.
- the end driving can be carried out in this case in a way analog to that described for the foregoing embodiment.
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IT22206/85A IT1185353B (it) | 1985-09-19 | 1985-09-19 | Elettroiniettore per l'alimentazione di combustibile ad un motore a combustione interna e procedimento per la sua realizzazione |
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