EP3018335B1 - Injecteur de carburant et procede de fabrication d'un injecteur de carburant - Google Patents

Injecteur de carburant et procede de fabrication d'un injecteur de carburant Download PDF

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EP3018335B1
EP3018335B1 EP15190117.0A EP15190117A EP3018335B1 EP 3018335 B1 EP3018335 B1 EP 3018335B1 EP 15190117 A EP15190117 A EP 15190117A EP 3018335 B1 EP3018335 B1 EP 3018335B1
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Lars Olems
Philipp Schott
Thomas Nierychlo
Axel Schnaufer
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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
    • F02M47/00—Fuel-injection apparatus operated cyclically with fuel-injection valves actuated by fluid pressure
    • F02M47/02—Fuel-injection apparatus operated cyclically with fuel-injection valves actuated by fluid pressure of accumulator-injector type, i.e. having fuel pressure of accumulator tending to open, and fuel pressure in other chamber tending to close, injection valves and having means for periodically releasing that closing pressure
    • F02M47/027—Electrically actuated valves draining the chamber to release the closing pressure
    • 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
    • F02M2200/00—Details of fuel-injection apparatus, not otherwise provided for
    • F02M2200/03—Fuel-injection apparatus having means for reducing or avoiding stress, e.g. the stress caused by mechanical force, by fluid pressure or by temperature variations
    • 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
    • F02M2200/00—Details of fuel-injection apparatus, not otherwise provided for
    • F02M2200/80—Fuel injection apparatus manufacture, repair or assembly
    • F02M2200/803—Fuel injection apparatus manufacture, repair or assembly using clamp elements and fastening means; e.g. bolts or screws
    • 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
    • F02M2200/00—Details of fuel-injection apparatus, not otherwise provided for
    • F02M2200/80—Fuel injection apparatus manufacture, repair or assembly
    • F02M2200/8061—Fuel injection apparatus manufacture, repair or assembly involving press-fit, i.e. interference or friction fit
    • 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
    • F02M2200/00—Details of fuel-injection apparatus, not otherwise provided for
    • F02M2200/80—Fuel injection apparatus manufacture, repair or assembly
    • F02M2200/8076—Fuel injection apparatus manufacture, repair or assembly involving threaded members

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  • the invention relates to a fuel injector, in particular a common rail injector for self-igniting internal combustion engines, according to the preamble of claim 1. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for producing a fuel injector according to the invention.
  • a fuel injector according to the preamble of claim 1 is known from DE 10 2012 224 226 A1 the applicant known.
  • a valve piece is clamped by means of a valve clamping screw axially against a shoulder of a holding body.
  • the valve piece include a control room and, starting from the bottom of the control room, a drain hole with outlet throttle and drain diffuser arranged.
  • a drain hole with outlet throttle and drain diffuser arranged in addition, opens into the control chamber formed in the wall of the valve piece, an inlet throttle having inlet bore.
  • the control chamber in which the end portion of a nozzle needle dips serves in a known manner to control the movement of the nozzle needle by closing or releasing the drain hole in the direction of a low pressure region by means of an actuator.
  • valve piece Due to the steadily increasing system pressures in auto-ignition internal combustion engines, it is necessary to tighten the valve piece with a relatively large axial clamping force against the retaining shoulder of the holder body to ensure the tightness of the fuel injector. Due to the geometry of the valve piece and the arrangement of the valve clamping screw to the valve piece both areas with compressive stresses and those with tensile stresses are generated during clamping in the valve piece. In the case of the fuel injector known from the cited document, in which the outlet throttle or the outlet diffuser lies approximately at the level of an end face in which the valve clamping screw bears against the valve piece, relatively high tensile stresses occur in the region of the outlet throttle and the outlet diffuser. the have a significant negative impact on the fatigue strength of the valve piece.
  • a radially outer element comprises a radially inner element to form a press fit, so that in the radially inner element radially acting compressive stresses are generated, which counteract the caused due to the system pressure in the Injektorgepuruse compressive stresses in the radially inner element.
  • the invention has the object, a fuel injector according to the preamble of claim 1 such that the fatigue strength of the valve piece is improved.
  • valve member is at least partially radially surrounded by a clamping element which is adapted to generate a radially acting pressure force on the valve piece.
  • clamping element compressive stresses are generated in the valve member, which can be used in response to the position of the clamping element to counteract the tensile stresses occurring during assembly of the valve member in the holding body during axial clamping of the valve member or to reduce these.
  • the outer diameter of the valve piece is larger than the inner diameter of the clamping element, such that in the assembled state between the valve piece and the clamping element a press fit is formed.
  • the clamping element in which this can be manufactured in manufacturing technology particularly simple manner and at the same time over the circumference of the valve piece considered equal pressure forces generated, it is provided that the clamping element is sleeve-shaped with preferably constant wall thickness.
  • the clamping element in the installed state is arranged axially spaced from the valve clamping screw and the holding body. As a result, the clamping element does not come into contact with the holding body or the valve clamping screw during the axial clamping of the valve piece, so that no forces possibly influencing the compressive stresses are transmitted to the clamping element via these elements.
  • the clamping element is received with radial play within the holding body.
  • the coefficient of thermal expansion of the valve piece is equal to or greater than the thermal expansion coefficient of the clamping element. In other words, this means that with a warming of the valve piece and the clamping element, the valve piece always expands more than the clamping element, so that the radial compressive forces of the clamping element on the valve piece even increased and reduced in any case.
  • the invention also includes a method for producing a fuel injector according to the invention.
  • This method is inventively characterized in that cooled before joining the valve piece and / or the clamping element is heated / is.
  • the two joining partners can be axially without the risk of mechanical damage to the joining partners into each other or add with relatively little axial force.
  • the valve piece is clamped axially in the holding body by means of the valve clamping screw.
  • This preferred method has the advantage that the axial clamping of the valve piece in the holding body takes place only in a state in which the desired radial compressive stresses have been generated via the clamping element in the valve piece.
  • the Indian Fig. 1 shown fuel injector 10 is part of a common rail injection system, in particular for self-igniting internal combustion engines, and has an injector 11 with a holding body 12.
  • a high-pressure inlet 14 which is connected via a fuel line, not shown, with a fuel reservoir (rail).
  • a valve member 16 is inserted, in which partially an injection valve member 18 in the form of a nozzle needle or a push rod, which actuates a lower lying injection valve member, is added.
  • a control chamber 20 is formed, which is acted upon via an inlet throttle 22 of the entering from the high-pressure inlet 14 and under system pressure fuel.
  • the injection valve member 18 serves to close or release in the Fig. 1 injection openings, not shown.
  • the control chamber 20 in the valve piece 16 is depressurized via a drain hole 24 in a low pressure region or in a fuel return.
  • a drain hole 24 In the drain hole 24 is below an opening formed as a diffuser 25, i. below a valve seat 28, an outlet throttle 26.
  • the valve seat 28 of the drain hole 24 is closed in the region of the diffuser 25 by a spherical closing element 30.
  • the fuel injector 10 is exemplified, and not by way of limitation, actuated by a solenoid valve.
  • a magnet assembly of the solenoid valve includes an armature 32 which is radially guided in an armature guide 36 with play.
  • the armature guide 36 is in turn partially surrounded by a valve clamping screw 50, with which the valve member 16 is clamped in the holder body 12 axially against a formed in the holding body 12 retaining shoulder 13.
  • the armature 32 has a flat end face 34, which is arranged opposite a likewise flat end face 40 of a magnetic core 38.
  • the magnetic core 38 comprises a magnetic coil 42 radially.
  • the magnet assembly which comprises the magnet core 38, the magnet coil 42 and the armature 32, is radially encompassed by a magnet sleeve 44, which is screwed by means of a clamping nut 48 on the holding body 12. Furthermore, in the Fig. 1 recognizable that the armature 32 is acted upon by an armature spring 46 which presses the armature 32 in the valve seat 28.
  • valve seat 28 Upon energization of the magnetic coil 42 accommodated in the magnetic core 38, the valve seat 28 is opened by tightening the armature 32 and thus an outflow of fuel from the control chamber 20 via the drainage bore 24 into the mentioned low-pressure region of the fuel injector 10 or into the fuel return.
  • the valve piece 16 has on the side facing the retaining shoulder 13 on its periphery an inclined chamfer 15. Furthermore, the valve piece 16 forms on the valve clamping screw 50 facing end side at least in the region of the valve clamping screw 50 flat end face 51.
  • the diffuser 25 and the outlet throttle 26 are, viewed in the axial direction, arranged approximately at the level or slightly below the end face 51 of the valve piece 16. During axial clamping of the valve member 16 against the retaining shoulder 13 of the holding body 12 by means of the valve clamping screw 26 tensile stresses are generated in the region of the diffuser 25 and the outlet throttle 26, which can be at least partially reduced or equalized by the now described, inventive design of the fuel injector 10.
  • valve member 16 at least partially, in the illustrated embodiment, approximately between the region of the end face 51 of the valve member 16 and the chamfer 15 is surrounded by a clamping element 55 which generates a radially acting pressure force on the valve member 16, which In the area of the outlet throttle 26 and the diffuser 25 prevailing tensile stresses reduced.
  • a press fit is formed between the outer diameter of the valve piece 16 and the inner diameter of the clamping element 55.
  • the clamping element 55 is sleeve-shaped with preferably constant wall thickness. Furthermore, it is provided in the installed state of the clamping element 55, that between the clamping element 55 and the holding body 12, a radially encircling space 57 is formed.
  • the valve member 16 is cooled down and / or the clamping member 55 is heated / is.
  • the heating or cooling down of the addressed components serves to reduce the differences in diameter between the outer diameter of the valve piece 16 and the inner diameter of the clamping element 55 in the joining region, to a subsequent axial joining of the components avoid mechanical damage to the components.
  • a second step 62 it is preferably provided after joining the components, in a second step 62 by a waiting time to achieve an approximation of the temperatures of the valve member 16 and the clamping member 55, whereby the clamping member 55 shrinks or expands the valve member 16 in the joint area.
  • the desired compressive stresses in the joining region between the valve piece 16 and the clamping element 55 are generated.
  • a third step 63 it is provided to insert the assembly formed from the valve piece 16 and the clamping element 55, possibly together with other components, into the holding body 12 and to clamp it axially against the holding shoulder 13 of the holding body 12 by means of the valve clamping screw 50, to ensure the desired tightness of the injector 11.

Claims (10)

  1. Injecteur de carburant (10), en particulier injecteur à rampe commune pour des moteurs à combustion interne à auto-allumage, comprenant un un organe de soupape (16) dans lequel est réalisé un alésage d'écoulement (24) avec un étranglement d'écoulement (26) par le biais duquel un espace de commande (20) peut être détendu en pression vers une région basse pression, l'organe de soupape (16) pouvant être précontraint axialement contre un corps de retenue (12) au moyen d'une vis de serrage de soupape (50),
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'organe de soupape (16) est entouré radialement au moins en partie par un élément de serrage (55) qui est réalisé de manière à générer une force de pression agissant radialement sur l'organe de soupape (16).
  2. Injecteur de carburant selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    pour réaliser la force de pression entre l'organe de soupape (16) et l'élément de serrage (55) dans l'état non sollicité, le diamètre extérieur de l'organe de soupape (16), est plus grand dans la région d'assemblage avec l'élément de serrage (55) que le diamètre intérieur de l'élément de serrage (55), de telle sorte que dans l'état assemblé entre l'élément de soupape (16) et l'élément de serrage (55) soit réalisé un ajustement serré.
  3. Injecteur de carburant selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'élément de serrage (55) est réalisé en forme de douille ayant une épaisseur de paroi de préférence constante.
  4. Injecteur de carburant selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'élément de serrage (55), dans l'état installé, est disposé à distance axiale de la vis de serrage de soupape (50) et du corps de retenue (12).
  5. Injecteur de carburant selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'élément de serrage (55) est reçu avec un jeu radial à l'intérieur du corps de retenue (12).
  6. Injecteur de carburant selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la vis de serrage de soupape (50) est disposée à distance radiale de l'alésage d'écoulement (24) dans l'organe de soupape (16) et s'applique contre une surface frontale (51) de l'organe de soupape (16).
  7. Injecteur de carburant selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'étranglement d'écoulement (26), vu dans la direction axiale, est disposé approximativement à la hauteur de la surface frontale (51) de l'organe de soupape (16).
  8. Injecteur de carburant selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le coefficient de dilatation thermique de l'organe de soupape (16) est supérieur ou égal au coefficient de dilatation thermique de l'élément de serrage (55).
  9. Procédé de fabrication d'un injecteur de carburant (10) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8,
    caractérisé en ce
    qu'avant l'assemblage, l'organe de soupape (16) est refroidi et/ou l'élément de serrage (55) est chauffé.
  10. Procédé selon la revendication 9,
    caractérisé en ce
    qu'après l'assemblage de l'organe de soupape (16) et de l'élément de serrage (55) et de préférence après un temps d'attente pour équilibrer les températures de l'organe de soupape (16) et de l'élément de serrage (55), l'organe de soupape (16) est inséré axialement dans le corps de retenue (12) au moyen de la vis de serrage de soupape (50).
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