A fuel pressure regulator includes a fuel inlet; a fuel outlet; a seating surface; and a valve member assembly. The valve member assembly includes a poppet and also includes a sealing member which is made of an elastomer material and which is annular in shape and including a sealing member surface. The sealing member is supported by the poppet. The valve member assembly is moveable between 1) a closed position in which the sealing member surface engages the seating surface, thereby preventing fuel flow from the fuel inlet to the fuel outlet and 2) an open position in which the sealing member surface is spaced apart from the seating surface, thereby allowing fuel flow from the fuel inlet to the fuel outlet.

A valve assembly includes a valve member and a valve body. The valve body has a contact surface intended to come into contact with an adjacent contact member The valve body also has a channel having an end portion opening to the outside of the valve body at at least one end opening, a valve member seat encircling a passage cross-section of the end portion of the channel, and an intermediate surface extending between the contact surface and the end opening. The valve member is capable of engaging with the valve member seat by contact in order to prevent a flow in the channel. The valve body has a groove provided on the intermediate surface, the groove encircling the valve member seat.

To provide a high-pressure fuel supply pump having a relief valve mechanism capable of suppressing deterioration of the seat property due to the influence of deformation caused by press-fitting while press-fitting and fixing a relief seat. To achieve this, a relief seat 201 of a relief valve mechanism 200 has, on its inner peripheral side, a seat portion 201a on which a valve 202 is seated, a small-diameter channel portion 201b formed with a smaller diameter than the valve 202 on an upstream side of the seat portion 201a, and a large-diameter channel portion 201c formed with a larger diameter than the small-diameter channel portion 201b on an upstream side of the small-diameter channel portion 201b, and, on its outer peripheral side, a fine gap portion 201d formed between the relief seat 201 and a member arranged on an outer peripheral side of the relief seat 201 at a position overlapping the small-diameter channel portion 201b in a flow direction of the fuel, and a press-fit portion 205a coming into contact with the member when the relief seat 201 is press-fitted into the member at a position overlapping the large-diameter channel portion 201c in the flow direction of the fuel.

A valve assembly for an injection valve includes a valve body that includes a cavity with a fluid inlet portion and a fluid outlet portion. The cavity includes a first portion extending from the fluid inlet portion to a bottom surface and a second portion extending from a central opening in the bottom surface down towards the fluid outlet portion. The valve assembly includes a valve needle axially movable in the cavity. The valve needle includes a shaft and a ball; the ball cooperating with a valve seat to prevent a fluid flow through the fluid outlet portion in a closing position and to release the fluid flow through the fluid outlet portion in further positions. The valve assembly includes a seat body forming the valve seat and a ball guide. The valve assembly includes where a lower particle filter is entirely arranged in the second portion of the cavity.

The present disclosure relates to a ball and a valve seat for a fuel injector, in which an SiO-DLC functional layer having low friction properties is formed as an outermost layer in order to reduce a friction coefficient, a Mo-based material is applied to a bonding layer and a supporting layer for bonding the SiO-DLC functional layer to a base material and supporting the same to improve the heat resistance thereof, and only Mo particles of a pure ion state are deposited so as to form the bonding layer and the support layer, such that adhesive force and bonding force are increased to thus improve durability; and to a method for coating the same.

A fuel injection valve includes a needle valve that controls communication between a high pressure chamber and an injection hole, a follower valve provided inside a control chamber controlled by fuel pressure inside an intermediate chamber, and an open-close valve that controls communication between a first passage and a low pressure passage and communication between a second passage and the low pressure passage. The fuel injection valve is configured to control the gradient of the fuel injection rate from the injection hole with an improved configuration.

Provided is a fuel injection valve which can be easily processed and can realize sufficient atomization while suppressing spreading of spray. In the fuel injection valve according to the present invention, when a nozzle plate 6 and a first direction 15a-1 in which fuel is sprayed are projected onto a virtual plane perpendicular to a central axis line of the fuel injection valve along an opening and closing valve direction of a valve body and a first orthogonal coordinate system having an X1 passing through a center O1 of the nozzle plate 6 and along the first direction 15a-1 and a Y1 axis passing through the center O1 of the nozzle plate 6 and perpendicular to the X1 axis is virtualized on the virtual plane, an introduction passage 11a-1 is inclined so that a straight line segment 14a-1 connecting between a central point 40a-1 of an upstream side end portion and a center Oa-1 of an inlet opening surface of a fuel injection hole 13a-1 is positioned on the Y1 axis side with respect to a straight line 30a-1 passing through the central point 40a-1 and the center O1 of the nozzle plate 6.

Provided is a high-pressure fuel pump that ensures oil tightness even at high fuel pressure and has a small and lightweight inexpensive discharge valve structure. Therefore, a high-pressure fuel pump according to the present invention includes: a discharge valve arranged on a discharge side of a pressurizing chamber; a discharge valve seat on which the discharge valve is seated; and a facing member configured independently as a separate member from the discharge valve seat and located on an opposite side of the discharge valve seat with the discharge valve interposed therebetween, in which a stroke direction regulating portion that regulates displacement of the discharge valve in a stroke direction is formed on a tapered surface of the facing member.

The present invention relates to a fuel pump for pumping fuel, comprising a piston (2) and a diaphragm seal element (3), which seals on an inner annular seal seat (4) and an outer annular seal seat (5), wherein the following equation is satisfied: (Ra.sup.2ra.sup.2)/(ri+L).sup.2=ra/ri, where ri is the inner radius of the inner seal seat (4), ra is the inner radius of the outer seal seat (5), Ra is the outer diameter of the piston (2) and L is a difference between an outer radius (Ria) of the inner seal seat (4) and the inner radius (ri) of the inner seal seat (4). The invention further relates to a method for operating a fuel pump.

A discharge valve includes: a valve main body that slidably contacts an inner peripheral wall of a tubular portion; and a primary passage that is formed at the valve main body and is located between the valve main body and the inner peripheral wall of the tubular portion. A stopper includes: a stopper main body that is formed separately from the tubular portion while the stopper main body is located on a side of the discharge valve that is opposite to the discharge valve seat; a movement limit surface that is configured to limit movement of the discharge valve in a direction away from the discharge valve seat; and a secondary passage that is formed at the stopper main body.