A valve assembly for an injection valve is disclosed. The valve assembly includes a valve body having a cavity with a fluid inlet portion and a fluid outlet portion, a valve needle, an armature which is able to slide on the valve needle, and a disc element positioned to limit axial displaceability of the armature relative to the valve needle. The disc element includes a plurality of passages extending in axial direction through a disc-shaped part of the disc element. The passages provide a first flow resistance for a fluid passing in a direction away from the fluid outlet passage and a second flow resistance in a direction towards the fluid outlet passage, wherein the second flow resistance is larger than the first flow resistance.

Recent exhaust gas regulation requires reduction of an amount and quantity of particulate matter included in an exhaust gas, and a normal maximum fuel pressure may be increased to approximately 35 MP. When the normal maximum fuel pressure is 35 MPa, a fuel injection valve is required to work for example at a pressure up to 45 MPa. In such a condition, a fluid force may exceed a valve opening force depending on a seat diameter, and a needle valve cannot be kept open and closed, when opening thereof is required.

In order to solve the above problems, a fuel injection valve according to the present invention includes a valve seat portion, a valve body which is seated on or separated from the valve seat portion, an injection hole which is formed on a downstream side from the valve seat portion, and a guide portion which is formed on an upstream side from the valve seat portion seating a valve body seat portion of the valve body to guide a guided portion on a downstream side of the valve body, in which the valve seat portion is formed to have a dimension in a crossing direction crossing an axial direction of 0.4 to 0.8 times a dimension of the guide portion in the crossing direction.

A direct injection fuel injection valve includes a valve casing housing therein a valve member and fitted into an engine main body of an internal combustion engine. The casing includes: a tubular case member; and a valve seat member joined to one end part thereof and having a valve seat and a fuel injection hole. The valve member can be in contact with and detached from the valve seat. The injection hole is opened and closed by cooperation between the valve seat and the valve member. At least part of the valve seat member is exposed to a combustion chamber of the engine main body. Fuel can be injected into the combustion chamber via the injection hole. The valve seat member is formed from a martensitic stainless steel having a PI value of at least 19, containing at least N, and having a C content of no greater than 0.3%.

A fuel injector for supplying fuel to a fuel consuming devise includes a fuel inlet for receiving the fuel, a nozzle tip for dispensing the fuel from the fuel injector, a conduit for communicating the fuel from the fuel inlet to the nozzle tip, a valve seat, and a valve selectively seatable and unseatable with the valve seat for selectively preventing and permitting fuel flow out of the nozzle tip. The nozzle tip includes a non-circular recess on a downstream side thereof and a metering hole on an upstream side thereof opening into the non-circular recess to allow fuel to exit the nozzle tip, the metering hole having a smaller area than the non-circular recess.

A fuel injection device includes a nozzle element, an injection hole forming member, and a valve element. The injection hole forming member includes a seat part having the seat surface, and a suck chamber formed on a front end part of the seat part, the suck chamber being a recess denting in the direction of heading from the seat surface toward a front end part. The suck chamber has a suck chamber injection hole from which a fuel is jetted toward the ignition plug.

A valve for metering a flowing medium, e.g., an injection valve for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines, is provided. In an embodiment, the valve has a sealing seat formed by a valve seat and a sealing head of a valve member able to be driven to execute lift motions. The valve has a plurality of spray orifices having hole-entry openings situated downstream from the sealing seat and sealable by the sealing seat. The valve has flow-through channels situated upstream from the sealing seat, which extend parallel to each other and discharge in front of the sealing seat. In order to achieve a unified upstream flow approach of all hole-entry openings of the spray orifices, e.g., if the number of spray orifices and flow-through channels differs, an upstream-flow shaper having at least one flow-through opening is situated between sealing seat and hole-entry openings of the spray orifices.

A fluid injector for injecting fluid is disclosed, including a body; a fluid passageway defined in the body and extending from an inlet to an outlet of the fluid injector; a valve seat disposed internally of the body and forming part of the passageway; a valve element that is selectively reciprocated relative to the valve seat to close and open the passageway to fluid flow by seating and unseating the valve element on and from the valve seat, respectively; and an orifice disc disposed in the passageway downstream of the valve seat in a direction of the fluid flow through the fluid injector, the orifice disc including a plurality of dimples and a plurality of orifices defined through the orifice disc, each dimple including at least one orifice located thereon and each dimple having an asymmetrical cross-section.

A fuel injection valve in which a valve element is formed at a distal end thereof with a flat portion 13c which is substantially parallel with an injection hole plate 11, injection hole entrances 12a are arranged inside an imaginary envelop 15 along an intersection between an extension 10b of a downstream inner wall of a seat portion of a valve seat and an upstream plane 11c of the injection hole plate and outside the flat plane at the distal end of the valve element, and the relation between the vertical distance h between the flat plane at the distal end of the valve element and the upstream plane of the injection hole plate with the valve opened and the diameter d of the injection hole entrance is h<d, and the injection hole 12 is formed to be inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to the direction of the thickness of the injection hole plate.

A fuel injector for internal combustion engines is provided, which has a valve seat member, bordering a valve chamber, having a valve seat and spray orifices and a central blind-end bore as well as a valve member that is able to be driven to cause a lift motion having a closing head, which, together with a valve seat, forms a sealing seat lying upstream of the spray orifices. In order to prevent an underpressure developing in the blind-end bore in the closing phase of the sealing seat, and a partial return flow of the fuel connected with it, the closing head of the valve member is provided, at its end face facing towards the valve seat member, with a plunger sticking out from closing head, which has a shape adjusted to the contour of the blind-end bore, and dips into the blind-end bore when the sealing seat is closed.

A vehicle component includes a surface that is configured to contact a fuel containing ethanol and zinc ions. A sacrificial carbon layer is disposed on the surface. The sacrificial carbon layer has a thickness of greater than or equal to about 250 nm to less than or equal to about 5 μm. The sacrificial carbon layer includes carbon that is configured to complex and solubilize ZnO deposited on the surface, wherein the ZnO forms from the zinc ions carried by the fuel.