A fuel injector and method are disclosed wherein an injector body defines a cavity and passages from an inlet at the cavity through an outside surface of the injector body. Each passage may have a first inner contour at a first angle and a second inner contour at a second angle. An injector pin with a fuel pass-though volume may be movable within the cavity to selectively overlap an outlet of the pass-through volume with an inlet of the passages to selectively direct fuel in varying quantities along the first second inner contours.

Movement of a valve body in an unspecified direction due to a minute clearance existing between a valve body and a guide changes the flow of fuel flowing into injection holes every injection, thereby leading to variation in respective beams of spray from the injection holes and the flow rate of injection between the injection holes. Provided are a valve body that sits on or separates from a seat; a plurality of guides that slidably guide the valve body; and a plurality of flow channel portions each formed between each guide adjacent circumferentially. Then, among the plurality of flow channel portions, the cross-sectional area of the first flow channel portion on a horizontal plane orthogonal to the central axis of the valve body is smaller than each of the cross-sectional areas of the remaining flow channel portions on the horizontal plane.

A liquid fuel injector such as for a dual fuel system in an internal combustion engine includes two-way injection control valves for controlling twin outlet checks. A first set of orifices are arranged in an A-F-Z pattern, and a second set of orifices are arranged in an A-F-Z pattern, within the fuel injector, among a high-pressure inlet passage, a low-pressure space, and first and second outlet check control chambers, respectively. A common nozzle supply cavity is fluidly connected to the high-pressure inlet passage and supplies each of two sets of nozzle outlets opened and closed by the twin outlet checks.

A liquid injector for injection of liquids into internal combustion engines is provided. The injectors have a plurality of jets aimed at a common collision point, where at least two jet streams collide to create a finely atomized liquid due to kinetic energy dissipated by the impact of the liquid streams. The angle formed by the jets, the pressure applied and the distance at which the jets collide is such that the loss of forward momentum is greater than the energy required to create particles smaller than 5 microns. Liquids injected may include gasoline, diesel-type fuels, or water. The injectors may be employed for port injection or direct injection.

The diesel engine comprises: a cylinder head covering one end of a cylinder; a piston having a crown surface opposed to the cylinder head and performing a reciprocating movement within the cylinder; and a fuel injector attached to the cylinder head. The crown surface of the piston is formed with a cavity which is concaved toward a side opposite to the cylinder head and has a round shape in top plan view, and a groove concaved from a periphery of the cavity toward a radially outward side of the piston. The groove extends from the lower end on the side opposite to the cylinder head, toward the upper end on the side of the cylinder head, while inclining in a circumferential direction of the piston. The fuel injector is formed with a nozzle hole directed toward the groove.

A fuel injector and method are disclosed including an injector body with a fuel sac, and an end positioned into a combustion chamber. A main fuel passage, having a varying cross-sectional area forming a reduced pressure region, fluidically couples the fuel sac to the combustion chamber. One or more additional passages fluidically couple the reduced pressure region with one or both of the fuel sac and the combustion chamber.

Among all combinations of two injection holes, in a combination in which when the injection holes are offset such that their central axes are coincident with each other in inlet openings, an inter-injection hole angle formed by the central axes is minimized, the inter-injection hole angle between the two injection holes is represented as yamin[deg], taper angles, which are formed by the respective contours of the injection hole inner walls in the cross sections along the virtual planes including the central axes of the two injection holes that allow the inter-injection hole angle to be minimized, are represented as a1 and a2[deg], and when fuel is injected from the injection holes, average pressure of the fuel in the fuel passage is represented as P[Mpa], and the injection holes are formed so as to satisfy a relationship: amina1+a2+0.5P.sup.0.6.

The present invention is directed to achieving an appropriate L/D of each injection hole in a fuel injection device in which a plurality of injection holes is formed. To achieve the object, provided is a fuel injection device including a valve body and an injection hole forming portion in which a plurality of injection holes is formed on a more downstream side than a seat portion on which the valve body is seated, in which the injection hole forming portion is formed in a manner such that a valve body central axis and a central axis of the injection hole forming portion are horizontally deviated in a vertical cross-sectional surface passing through the valve body central axis.

A fuel injector has an injector nozzle with nozzle body having internal room and nozzle wall hole connecting this room to exterior of the nozzle body. A valve needle is movable in a longitudinal direction and received in the internal room. The valve needle has an internal fuel channel with inlet located at a circumferential surface of a first portion. The nozzle wall hole has a circular cross-section with the same diameter as the first valve needle portion defined by walls extending in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the needle. The fuel inlet of the fuel channel is located on said walls of the nozzle wall hole in a second position to prevent fuel entering the fuel channel and located inside the internal room in a first position for receiving fuel from this internal room and injecting it into a combustion chamber of a cylinder of an engine.

A fuel injector, comprising a nozzle body having a proximal end and a distal end, an upper row of nozzle holes being equally spaced about a first circumference of the nozzle body, and a lower row of nozzle holes located between the distal end and the upper row of nozzle holes, wherein the upper row has a first number of holes that is greater than a second number of holes in the lower row and wherein one of the first number of holes and the second number of holes is odd.