A fuel injector including a fuel injector housing, a valve seat formed at one end of the fuel injector housing, and a valve body disposed in the fuel injector housing and operable to open and close a spray hole in the valve seat. The valve seat includes a base portion and insert portion having spray holes that is secured to the base portion.

A martensitic stainless steel contains 0.20 mass %C0.60 mass %, 0.10 mass %N0.50 mass %, 14.00 mass %Cr17.00 mass %, 1.00 mass %Mo3.00 mass %, 0.20 mass %V0.40 mass %, Si0.30 mass %, Mn0.80 mass %, P0.040 mass %, S0.040 mass %, Cu0.25 mass %, Ni0.20 mass %, and the balance Fe with inevitable impurities.

A fuel injection valve includes a body that includes an injection hole through which fuel is injected, and a valve element that opens or closes the injection hole. The body includes a metallic base material configured to form the injection hole, a corrosion-resistant layer covering a surface of at least a part of the base material that forms the injection hole and being made of a less corrosive material than the base material, and a sacrificial corrosion layer located between the base material and the corrosion-resistant layer and made of a more corrosive material than the corrosion-resistant layer.

The present invention aims for obtaining a fuel rail for gasoline direct injection which can be used for the direct injection at a high fuel pressure of 50 MPa or more by increasing the thickness at the portion near the branch hole and using the material having high thickness for the metal seal portion while keeping the weight light and keeping the cost low. A fuel rail for gasoline direct injection made of steel and used at a fuel pressure of 50 MPa or more, the fuel rail having: a plurality of block members 2; and a pipe member 1 which connects an interval between the block members, wherein the block members 2 have: a branch hole 3 which communicates with the pipe member 1; and a metal seal portion 6 to which an injector is connected, and the hardness of the block members 2 is higher than the hardness of the pipe member 1.

A fuel delivery rail includes a rail body having an outer diameter and an inner diameter. The inner diameter defines an interior channel. The fuel delivery rail includes an input port providing access to the interior channel for fuel to enter the interior channel. A plurality of output ports allow the fuel to exit the interior channel, wherein the fuel deliver rail is fabricated from a microalloy steel comprising the following composition by weight: 0.28%<carbon<0.31%; 0.65%<silicon<0.80%; 1.40%<manganese<1.50%; 0.0%<phosphorus<0.015%; 0.012%<sulfur<0.025%; 0.15%<chromium<0.25%; 0.12%<vanadium<0.15%; 0.0%<molybdenum<0.05%; 0.0%<nickel<0.10%; 0.008%<titanium<0.015%; 0.015%<nitrogen<0.020%; 0.0%<aluminum<0.01%; 0.0%<copper<0.25%, the remainder being iron and impurities inherent in processing.

A fuel injection valve includes a valve seat, a valve element, and a plurality of swirl fuel injection passages. The plurality of swirl fuel injection passages are divided into a first swirl fuel injection passage group that forms a first spray and a second swirl fuel injection passage group that forms a second spray that is oriented in a direction different from a first direction.

A fuel injector is described which is able to be preassembled in a receiving opening of a fuel-distributor line in a loss-proof manner in a structural unit in the form of a fuel charge assembly for transport to the final assembly at the vehicle manufacturer. A radial support disk for preventing the loss of the fuel injector is disposed on the inflow-side end of the inlet pipe by press-fitting the radial support disk in the receiving opening. The fuel injector is particularly suitable for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having externally supplied ignition.

The valve according to the present invention, in particular, a fuel injector, is characterized by having an improved sealing at its spray-side end. The fuel injector (1) includes an excitable actuator (15) for actuating a valve closing body (12), which together with a valve seat surface (14) formed on a valve seat body (13) forms a seal seat, and spray openings (4) formed downstream of the valve seat surface (14), and a valve seat support (10), which accommodates the valve seat body (13), forms a portion of a valve housing (22) and is fixedly connected to the valve seat body (13). A plastically deformable sealing element (45) is introduced into an annular gap (35) between the valve seat support (10) and the valve seat body (13) to avoid corrosion and damage of a weld seam (30). The fuel injector is particularly suitable for directly injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing spark ignition internal combustion engine.

A solenoid pipe is formed of a ferromagnetic material containing 15-18 mass % of Cr, an electromagnetic coil, and a valve body. The pipe includes a reform portion, having a composition in which a component of the ferromagnetic material is mixed with a component of a Ni-containing material. A ratio, e/d, of a maximum deformation, e, of an outer circumferential surface side of the reform portion of the pipe with respect to a thickness, d, of the pipe near the reform portion is 0.5 or less, and a ratio, c/d, of a maximum deformation, c, of an inner circumferential surface side of the reform portion of the pipe with respect to the thickness, d, of the pipe is 0.5 or less.

The invention relates to an antiwear-coated metal component (1), in particular for a ball valve (6), the tribosurface of which component is at least partially provided with a multi-layer antiwear coating (2). The antiwear coating (2) has at least a metal adhesion layer (3a), an adhesion-promoting layer (3b) and at least one first cover layer (3c). The adhesion-promoting layer (3b) comprises a carbide-forming metal or a boride-forming metal. The at least first cover layer (3c) comprises a hydrogen-free tetrahedral carbon. The invention further relates to a method for applying an antiwear coating (2) to a metal substrate (9) in order to produce an antiwear-coated metal component (1) of this type. The invention further relates to a ball valve, comprising an antiwear-coated metal component (1) of this type and an antiwear coating (2).