EP1412633A1 - Kraftstoffinjektor mit schliessdruckkompensation - Google Patents
Kraftstoffinjektor mit schliessdruckkompensationInfo
- Publication number
- EP1412633A1 EP1412633A1 EP02740359A EP02740359A EP1412633A1 EP 1412633 A1 EP1412633 A1 EP 1412633A1 EP 02740359 A EP02740359 A EP 02740359A EP 02740359 A EP02740359 A EP 02740359A EP 1412633 A1 EP1412633 A1 EP 1412633A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- nozzle needle
- nozzle
- guide
- fuel injector
- sealing element
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- 239000000446 fuel Substances 0.000 title claims abstract description 60
- 238000002347 injection Methods 0.000 claims abstract description 41
- 239000007924 injection Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 41
- 238000007789 sealing Methods 0.000 claims abstract description 39
- 238000002485 combustion reaction Methods 0.000 claims abstract description 32
- 230000007423 decrease Effects 0.000 description 10
- 239000000243 solution Substances 0.000 description 5
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 description 4
- 230000007704 transition Effects 0.000 description 4
- 230000032683 aging Effects 0.000 description 3
- 238000009825 accumulation Methods 0.000 description 1
- 230000002411 adverse Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000015572 biosynthetic process Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000003247 decreasing effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000003111 delayed effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000001419 dependent effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000002093 peripheral effect Effects 0.000 description 1
- 230000002250 progressing effect Effects 0.000 description 1
Classifications
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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
- F02M61/00—Fuel-injectors not provided for in groups F02M39/00 - F02M57/00 or F02M67/00
- F02M61/16—Details not provided for in, or of interest apart from, the apparatus of groups F02M61/02 - F02M61/14
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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
- F02M61/00—Fuel-injectors not provided for in groups F02M39/00 - F02M57/00 or F02M67/00
- F02M61/04—Fuel-injectors not provided for in groups F02M39/00 - F02M57/00 or F02M67/00 having valves, e.g. having a plurality of valves in series
- F02M61/10—Other injectors with elongated valve bodies, i.e. of needle-valve type
- F02M61/12—Other injectors with elongated valve bodies, i.e. of needle-valve type characterised by the provision of guiding or centring means for valve bodies
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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
- F02M61/00—Fuel-injectors not provided for in groups F02M39/00 - F02M57/00 or F02M67/00
- F02M61/16—Details not provided for in, or of interest apart from, the apparatus of groups F02M61/02 - F02M61/14
- F02M61/20—Closing valves mechanically, e.g. arrangements of springs or weights or permanent magnets; Damping of valve lift
- F02M61/205—Means specially adapted for varying the spring tension or assisting the spring force to close the injection-valve, e.g. with damping of valve lift
Definitions
- fuel injection systems with a high-pressure collecting space are increasingly being used.
- a corresponding number of fuel injectors are supplied with fuel under high pressure via the high-pressure collection space.
- the fuel injectors can be equipped with hole nozzles, such as blind hole or seat hole nozzles.
- the nozzle design is crucial for the metered injection in terms of injection duration and injection quantity.
- the injection nozzles are closed or released cyclically by the tip of the nozzle needle during operation of the fuel injector.
- DE 196 19 523 AI discloses a fuel injection valve, the valve body of which projects into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine to be supplied.
- the valve body is axially biased against a valve body by means of a clamping nut.
- the valve body has a blind bore extending from the end face facing the valve holding body, which is designed as a guide bore in which a piston-shaped valve member is axially displaceably guided.
- the guide bore has a radially widened pressure space, which is connected by an annular gap formed between the wall of the guide bore and the valve member to a conical valve seat surface which is formed at the inwardly projecting closed end of the guide bore.
- Injection openings which open into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, adjoin this valve seat surface downstream.
- the axially displaceable valve member is held in contact with the valve seat by means of a return spring under pretension with a valve sealing surface provided on the combustion chamber end of the valve member.
- the fuel supply tion to the injection valve takes place via an inlet channel opening into the pressure chamber, which penetrates the valve holding body and is also continuously connected via an injection line to a common high-pressure collecting chamber (common rail) common to all the injection valves of the internal combustion engine to be supplied.
- the piston-shaped valve member also has an annular shoulder in the region of the pressure chamber, on which the high fuel pressure constantly present in the pressure chamber acts in the opening direction of the valve member.
- the valve member is hydraulically guided and blocked into its closed position via an adjacent pressure or piston rod, for which purpose the end face of the pressure rod facing away from the valve seat limits a hydraulic closing pressure chamber.
- DE 298 14 934 relates to a fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines. According to this solution, breakage of the valve body and increasing leakage can be reliably avoided at high fuel pressures in the pressure chamber in that the force introduction surfaces between the clamping nut and the valve body are conical, so that when the components are clamped to one another in addition to the axially directed inlet an additional radial clamping force component is transmitted to the valve body. This radially inward clamping force counteracts the expansion of the guide bore, so that the tight play between the wall of the guide bore and the valve member is maintained and only a small amount of leakage can flow out through the narrow gap.
- a drop in closing force which occurs at the nozzle needle and slowly results from the aging of a closing spring acting on the nozzle needle can be compensated.
- the spring stiffness of the closing spring acting on the nozzle needle decreases over time, as a result of which the applied spring force decreases.
- the decrease in the spring force over the operating time of the injector is compensated according to the invention by influencing the hydraulic force which counteracts the spring force.
- a hydraulic surface is formed which surrounds the nozzle needle essentially in the shape of a truncated cone.
- the guide is positioned between this area and a contact area, which can be configured, for example, as a bevel. and the sealing element of the nozzle needle first make a linear contact, which in the course of operation changes into surface contact due to the naturally occurring wear.
- the transition from the linear contact of the hydraulic surface with the beveling of the guide and sealing element to a surface contact of the guide and Sealing element is dependent on the design of the angle of inclination of the frustoconical hydraulic surface formed on the nozzle needle and, by its design, can depend on the aging behavior of the closing spring, ie its closing force
- the hydraulically effective area of the frustoconical section decreases, so that a decrease in the spring force of the closing spring by an ideally parallel decrease in the hydraulic force counteracting the force of the closing spring by the transition from Line contact in a surface contact with the decrease in the hydraulic effective area can be compensated.
- the nozzle needle and the fuel injector can be quickly closed even after longer operating times.
- a quick closing of the injection nozzle is particularly advantageous in terms of avoiding fuel injection quantities towards the end of the combustion process in the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine.
- a "too late" injected fuel volume cannot be converted into the combustion, so that an injection at this late point in time due to delayed needle closing would result in an inadmissibly strong HC emission from the internal combustion engine.
- the solution according to the invention avoids injecting fuel into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine at a later point in time in the combustion process by adversely influencing the emission behavior of internal combustion engines by rapidly closing the nozzle needle at the nozzle seat.
- Figure 1 shows a nozzle needle in the open state, i.e. closed injector
- FIG. 1.1 the formation of the hydraulic surface in the area of an undercut on the circumference of the nozzle needle
- Figure 2 shows a nozzle needle in the closed position, i.e. with the injector open
- FIG. 2.1 shows the arrangement of conical surfaces on the nozzle needle and holding body when the nozzle needle and are in the upper stop position
- Figure 2.2 shows the hydraulic surfaces on the circumference of the nozzle needle on an enlarged scale.
- FIG. 1 shows a nozzle needle which, in the position shown, closes injection openings on a nozzle body.
- the fuel injector 1 comprises an injector body 2, in which a nozzle needle 3 is movably received.
- the upper part of the nozzle needle 3 is guided in the injector body 2 in a guide and sealing element 4, which can be designed as a sleeve.
- Reference number 31 denotes the diameter of the nozzle needle 3 in the area in which the nozzle needle 3 is enclosed by the guide and sealing element 4.
- An area of reduced diameter 20 is formed below the guide and sealing element 4 on the nozzle needle 3.
- the nozzle needle 3 is biased at its upper end face by a spring element 35 - the closing spring.
- the nozzle needle 3 is enclosed in the injector body 2 by a nozzle space 6 formed therein.
- the nozzle chamber 6 is connected via a high-pressure inlet 7 to a high-pressure collecting chamber (common rail), which is not shown here.
- Fuel under high pressure is directed into the nozzle chamber 6 of the injector body 2 via the high-pressure collecting chamber via the high-pressure inlet 7.
- a pressure call 5 is formed on the nozzle needle.
- the nozzle needle 3 comprises a guide 8 which for Example can be designed as a multi-surface guide 9.
- the guide 8 comprises guide surfaces 10 which are offset by 90 ° to one another and with which the nozzle needle 3 is guided in the nozzle body 11 of the fuel injector 1.
- the nozzle needle 3 is essentially designed as a rotationally symmetrical component with respect to the line of symmetry 12 and is provided with a seat diameter 15 in the region of the needle tip 13.
- the seat diameter 15 lies in the closed state of the injection opening 18 formed in the nozzle body 11 against an inside of an injection cone 17 with a seat surface 16, so that the injection openings 18 are closed by the nozzle needle tip 13 in the state shown in FIG. no fuel is injected into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine.
- the nozzle needle tip 13 of the nozzle needle 3 is designed as a seat hole nozzle 34.
- Another embodiment variant of the nozzle needle tip 13 of the nozzle needle 3 consists in the configuration of the nozzle needle tip 13 as a blind hole nozzle (not shown here).
- a region 20 of reduced diameter is formed on the nozzle needle 3 in the lower region of the guide and sealing element 4, which is preferably designed as a sleeve-shaped component.
- the reduced-diameter region 20 comprises a section 23 configured in the shape of a truncated cone, the outer surface of which extends conically.
- the nozzle chamber 6 and the reduced-diameter region 20 of the nozzle needle 3 are hydraulically connected via an annular channel 19 which is formed on the injector body 2.
- the representation according to FIG. 1.1 shows the course and design of the hydraulic surface in the reduced diameter area of the nozzle needle.
- the nozzle needle tip 13 designed as a seat hole nozzle 34 rests in the injection cone 17 of the nozzle body 11 in such a way that the injection openings 18 formed therein are closed.
- a gap is formed between the hydraulic surface 23 in the reduced diameter region 20 of the nozzle needle 3 and a bevel 22 in the lower region 24 of the guide and sealing element 4, so that the annular channel 19 extends from the nozzle chamber 6 below high-pressure fuel can flow into the opening between the hydraulic surface 23 and the bevel 22 in the lower region of the guide and sealing element 4.
- the stroke path which the nozzle needle 3 executes in the injector body 2 of the fuel injector 1 is identified by reference numeral 21.
- 1.1 shows that the reduced-diameter area 20 - for example an undercut on the circumference of the nozzle needle 3 - has a smaller diameter at its narrowest point. it has than that which the nozzle needle 3 has in the area which is guided in the guide and sealing element 4.
- FIG. 2 shows the nozzle needle as shown in FIG. 1 in a position within the injector body 2 in which the nozzle needle tip opens injection openings 18 in the region of the injection cone 17.
- the seat diameter 15 in the region of the nozzle needle tip 13 of the nozzle needle 3 is retracted from the injection cone 17 in the nozzle body 11, so that fuel under high pressure from the nozzle chamber 6 along the annular gap between the nozzle body 11 and the circumference is flowed through the inflow surfaces in the region of the guide 8 the nozzle needle 3 of the injection opening 18 can flow.
- the hydraulic surface 23 lies in the reduced-diameter region 20 of the nozzle needle 3 below the guide and sealing element 4 on the bevel 22 (cf. illustration in FIG. 1) ) on.
- Figure 2.1 shows the system of the hydraulic surface in the reduced diameter area 20 of the nozzle needle on the corresponding bevel of the guide and sealing element.
- the guiding and sealing element 4 is preferably designed as a sleeve which is embedded in the injector body 2 of the fuel injector 1.
- the nozzle needle 3 In the position of the nozzle needle 3, identified by reference numeral 33, relative to the injector body 2, the nozzle needle 3 is inserted in the direction of the arrow 25 into the guide and sealing element 4, so that the hydraulic surface 23 on a bevel 22 corresponding to it is in the contact area 24 of the guiding and sealing element 4 bears in a first contact position 27 with linear contact of the contact area 24 of the bevel 22.
- Figure 2.2 shows the hydraulic surface in linear contact with the bevel in the lower region of the guide and sealing element.
- the nozzle needle 3 is in the position identified by reference number 33 in the injector body 2.
- the inflow of fuel via the ring channel 19 into the pocket-shaped recess 30, i.e. the constriction point formed there is prevented by the contact of the hydraulic surface 23 on the bevel 22.
- the first contact position between the hydraulic surface 23 and the bevel 22 of the contact area 24 of the guide and sealing element 4 is marked with reference numeral 27.
- the nozzle needle 3 assumes its position 33 which opens the injection openings 18, the hydraulic surface 23 bears against the bevel 22 of the guide and sealing element 4.
- the nozzle chamber 6 is in the injector Body 2 is acted upon by the high-pressure inlet 7 from the high-pressure accumulation chamber (common rail) with a high-pressure fuel volume which flows through the annular gap between the nozzle needle 3 and the nozzle body 11 into the injection cone 17 of the nozzle body 11 and via the injection opening 18 into the combustion chamber of the supplying internal combustion engine arrives.
- fuel under high pressure is present on the annular surface 26 of the guide and sealing element 4 via the annular channel 19.
- the nozzle needle 3 becomes corresponding to the lifting path 21 in the direction of a retraction of the seat diameter 15 into the seat surface 16 of the injection cone 17 in the nozzle body 11 driven.
- the hydraulic force counteracting the spring force 32 of the closing spring 35 is defined on the one hand by the pressure stage 5 of the nozzle needle 3, which is surrounded by the control chamber 6.
- This hydraulic force is compensated by the hydraulic surface 23 in cooperation with the bevel 22 of the contact area 24 of the guide and sealing element 4 such that, depending on the angle of inclination of the frustoconical area of the hydraulic surface 23 on the nozzle needle 3 and on material pairs tion between the nozzle needle material and the material of the guide and sealing element 4 initially sets a line contact 27, which over the course of the operating time of the fuel injector 1 changes into a surface contact indicated by the arrow 29 between the hydraulic surface 23 and the bevel 22 of the guide and sealing element 4.
- the transition from a line contact 27 into a surface contact 29 in the area of the hydraulic surface 23 is accompanied by a reduction in the hydraulically effective area.
- the measure proposed according to the invention ensures that a decrease in the closing force resulting from the decrease in the spring stiffness of the spring element 35 takes place by a corresponding correction of the hydraulic force counteracting the decreasing spring force 32.
- the decrease in the hydraulic force, which counteracts the closing movement of the nozzle needle 3 can be influenced in such a way that the spring force 32 required for the required rapid closing of the nozzle needle 3 can also be applied by an aged spring element 35 whose spring stiffness is reduced.
- the fuel injector 1 is able to implement and comply with the defined injection times, in particular the emission-relevant end times, during an injection cycle even after a longer operating time.
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Abstract
Description
Claims
Applications Claiming Priority (3)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE2001134868 DE10134868A1 (de) | 2001-07-18 | 2001-07-18 | Kraftstoffinjektor mit Schließdruckkompensation |
| DE10134868 | 2001-07-18 | ||
| PCT/DE2002/001805 WO2003008797A1 (de) | 2001-07-18 | 2002-05-18 | Kraftstoffinjektor mit schliessdruckkompensation |
Publications (2)
| Publication Number | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| EP1412633A1 true EP1412633A1 (de) | 2004-04-28 |
| EP1412633B1 EP1412633B1 (de) | 2008-08-06 |
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| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| EP02740359A Expired - Lifetime EP1412633B1 (de) | 2001-07-18 | 2002-05-18 | Kraftstoffinjektor mit schliessdruckkompensation |
Country Status (5)
| Country | Link |
|---|---|
| EP (1) | EP1412633B1 (de) |
| JP (1) | JP4138650B2 (de) |
| BR (1) | BR0205760A (de) |
| DE (2) | DE10134868A1 (de) |
| WO (1) | WO2003008797A1 (de) |
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| JP4645636B2 (ja) * | 2007-11-13 | 2011-03-09 | 株式会社デンソー | 燃料噴射弁 |
| GB0813777D0 (en) | 2008-07-28 | 2008-09-03 | Micromass Ltd | Mass spectrometer |
| DE102009045168A1 (de) | 2009-09-30 | 2011-03-31 | Robert Bosch Gmbh | Brennstoffeinspritzventil |
| DK2405127T3 (da) * | 2010-07-07 | 2013-04-22 | Waertsilae Switzerland Ltd | Brændstofindsprøjtningsindretning til motorer med indvendig forbrænding |
| DE102015219376A1 (de) * | 2015-10-07 | 2017-04-13 | Robert Bosch Gmbh | Düsenbaugruppe für einen Kraftstoffinjektor und Kraftstoffinjektor |
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2001
- 2001-07-18 DE DE2001134868 patent/DE10134868A1/de not_active Ceased
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2002
- 2002-05-18 WO PCT/DE2002/001805 patent/WO2003008797A1/de not_active Ceased
- 2002-05-18 BR BR0205760-3A patent/BR0205760A/pt active Search and Examination
- 2002-05-18 EP EP02740359A patent/EP1412633B1/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 2002-05-18 DE DE50212605T patent/DE50212605D1/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 2002-05-18 JP JP2003514112A patent/JP4138650B2/ja not_active Expired - Fee Related
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Also Published As
| Publication number | Publication date |
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| JP4138650B2 (ja) | 2008-08-27 |
| EP1412633B1 (de) | 2008-08-06 |
| DE10134868A1 (de) | 2003-02-13 |
| JP2005509107A (ja) | 2005-04-07 |
| WO2003008797A1 (de) | 2003-01-30 |
| BR0205760A (pt) | 2003-07-22 |
| DE50212605D1 (de) | 2008-09-18 |
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