U.S. patent number 3,817,456 [Application Number 05/380,099] was granted by the patent office on 1974-06-18 for fuel injection nozzle for internal combustion engines.
Invention is credited to Jorg Schlappkohl.
United States Patent |
3,817,456 |
Schlappkohl |
June 18, 1974 |
FUEL INJECTION NOZZLE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
Abstract
A fuel-injection nozzle for an internal combustion engine is
described, which nozzle comprises a valve needle for controlling
the flow of fuel via a throttle passage to a pressure chamber for a
preliminary fuel injection out of the nozzle and for controlling of
the flow of fuel via duct means to the pressure chamber for a main
fuel injection out of the nozzle, during the opening stroke of the
valve needle, and which nozzle is improved by valve means closed
during rest position which valve means are mounted in the duct
means and associated with the valve needle to be opened by the
needle during its opening stroke; the free cross-sectional area of
the nozzle mouth which is traversed by the fuel during the
preliminary injection is smaller than the cross-sectional area of
said throttle passage.
Inventors: |
Schlappkohl; Jorg (7 Stuttgart,
DT) |
Family
ID: |
5850876 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/380,099 |
Filed: |
July 17, 1973 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
|
|
|
|
|
Jul 18, 1972 [DT] |
|
|
2235083 |
|
Current U.S.
Class: |
239/533.5 |
Current CPC
Class: |
F02M
45/08 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
F02M
45/00 (20060101); F02M 45/08 (20060101); B05b
001/30 () |
Field of
Search: |
;239/533,126,570 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Foreign Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: King; Lloyd L.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Greigg; Edwin E.
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. In a fuel nozzle for an internal combustion engine, which nozzle
comprises a valve needle for controlling the flow of fuel via a
throttle passage to pressure chamber means for a preliminary
injection out of the mouth of the nozzle and for controlling the
flow of fuel via duct means to said pressure chamber means for a
main injection out of the mouth of the nozzle, during the opening
stroke of the valve needle,
the improvement comprising a valve means closed during rest
position which valve means is mounted in said duct means and
associated with said needle to be opened by said needle during the
opening stroke of the latter; the free cross-sectional area of the
nozzle mouth being traversed by the fuel during the preliminary
injection being smaller than the cross-sectional area of said
throttle passage.
2. The improvement as described in claim 1, wherein the axis of
said valve along which the latter opens and closes is disposed
coaxially with said valve needle.
3. The improvement as described in claim 2, wherein said valve
comprises a movable valve member having a pin extending in
downstream direction, a spring biassing said valve member, and a
spring seat disc, the distance between the downstream end of said
pin and said spring seat disc being as large as the opening stroke
of said valve needle during preliminary injection.
4. The improvement as described in claim 1, wherein said pressure
chamber means comprise a main chamber, and an auxiliary chamber
upstream of said main chamber, and said duct means comprising a
first duct from said auxiliary chamber to said main chamber, said
throttle passage being located in said first duct and being open at
all times, and second duct means from said auxiliary chamber to
said main chamber, said valve means being interposed in said second
duct.
5. The improvement as described in claim 3, wherein said movable
valve member is adapted for penetrating, during opening against the
force of said spring, into said auxiliary pressure chamber.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a fuel injection nozzle for internal
combustion engines which nozzle has a valve needle controlling a
preinjection and a main injection, the fuel for the preinjection
being fed into a pressure chamber of the nozzle via a throttle
passage and wherein a duct for the main injection of fuel is opened
during the opening stroke of the valve needle.
Such pre- and main injection valves are employed in order to reduce
the loud ignition noises caused by high speed diesel engines while
idling. By means of the preinjection and main injection, of which
the former preferably merges into the latter, a combustion of
little noise is achieved which sets in smoothly and proceeds slowly
in the beginning.
Known fuel injection valves of this type have the drawbacks of
being expensive to manufacture and of having a hydrodynamically
unfavorable conduit system.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Is is an object of the invention to develop an inexpensive valve
means for preinjection and main injection which is free from the
above-described drawbacks.
This object is attained, in accordance with the invention, by
providing in a fuel injection nozzle of the type initially
described, a valve means interposed in the main injection fuel
duct, which is in closed position during idling of the engine and
which is pushed open by the valve needle during the opening stroke
of the latter, and means for producing during the preinjection
stroke a throttle effect which is larger at the point of fuel
injection than at the throttle passage mentioned further above.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the valve is arranged
coaxially with the valve needle and comprises a movable valve
member having a plug, and the valve needle comprises a return
spring and a spring-retaining disc at a distance from the said plug
which is as large as the preinjection opening stroke of the
needle.
With such an arrangement, it is possible to manufacture an
inexpensive valve which requires few closely fitting parts compared
with a normal injection valve; only the throttle effect in the
preinjection throttle passage and the throttle effect at the
opening injection orifice must be exactly proportioned relative to
one another.
In another embodiment of the invention, an auxiliary pressure
chamber is provided upstream of the main pressure chamber, and
these pressure chambers are connected with each other via a
throttle passage which is open at all times, and via a
valve-controlled fuel line; and a movable valve member of the valve
plunges into the auxiliary pressure chamber when the valve is
opened against a closing force.
The invention will be better understood and further objects and
advantages will become apparent from the ensuing detailed
specification of a preferred but merely exemplary embodiment taken
in conjunction with the drawing.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The drawing shows in axial sectional view a preferred embodiment of
the fuel injection nozzle according to the invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENT
In a nozzle head 1, a valve needle 2 having a throttle plug 3 is
mounted to control an injection orifice 4 provided in a pressure
chamber 5. The nozzle head 1 is clamped together with three
super-imposed discs 8, 9 and 10 in a nozzle holder 7 by means of a
clamp bolt 6. Disc 8 has a central bore 13 which houses a locking
spring 11 and its spring seat disc 12. In disc 10, a second
pressure chamber 14 is provided in the form of a central recess
which is connected at its one side via channels 15 and 15a to a
line 15b for supplying fuel from the fuel injection pump (not
shown), while on its other side recess 14 communicates with
pressure chamber 5, on the one hand, via a duct 16 in which
throttle 18 is inserted, and which conveys a preliminary fuel
amount to the pressure chamber 5, and, on the other hand, via a
duct 17 controlled by a valve 19 and serving to convey the main
fuel amount. Both ducts 16 and 17 extend through discs 8 and 9 into
nozzle head 1. Throttle 18 is mounted in that part of duct 16 which
extends through disc 9. Valve 9 comprises a movable valve member 22
which is displaceable for opening against the direction of fuel
flow and is biassed by a closing spring 20, which is supported on
the end wall of recess 14, so that valve member 22 moves into the
recess 14 when opening.
When the injection pump conveys fuel to the nozzle, part of the
fuel flows out of pressure chamber 14 and via throttle 18 and duct
16 into the pressure chamber 5, and causes the valve needle 2 to
lift from its seat 4a by overcoming the force of the closing spring
11, whereupon preinjection commences. During this first stage of
the opening stroke of the valve needle 2, the cross sectional
throttling area at the injection orifice 4 is always smaller than
the cross sectional area of the throttle passage 18, whereby the
valve needle 2 is automatically caused to open further.
During this further opening, the upstream end of valve needle 2
penetrates through a central opening at the upstream end of nozzle
head 1 and causes spring seat disc 12 to abut against a pin 21
being a down-stream extension of the movable valve member 22 and
thereby lifts the valve member 22 from its seat 23a. This opens a
flowpath for the major amounts of fuel via duct 17 to pressure
chamber 5 from where the main fuel injection can now begin.
The small amounts of fuel penetrating into central bore 13 housing
spring 11, due to leakage along valve needle 2 and pin 21, are led
off via channel 23 to a fuel return pipe 23a.
* * * * *