A connecting element connecting a fuel injection valve to a fuel-conducting component includes: a main body having a receptacle space into which a fuel connector of the fuel injection valve is introduced; and a fastening element. At least one opening is provided in a wall of the main body surrounding the receptacle space. The fastening element for fastening the fuel connector on the main body is brought into the receptacle space at least partly through the at least one opening. At least one elastic bearing element is provided, and the fastening element brought at least partly through the opening into the receptacle space is supported on the wall of the main body via the at least one elastic bearing element.

A control valve is provided, in particular for metering in a fluid for a delivery pump which is arranged downstream. The control valve has a flow channel, an axially movable valve needle, and a valve element which can be loaded by the valve needle in an opening direction and is arranged in the flow channel. If the valve element is actuated in the opening direction by the valve needle, the fluid can flow back through the flow channel at least temporarily counter to the opening direction of the valve element. Upstream of the valve element as viewed in the backflow direction, the flow channel has a fluidically active shield which keeps the backflow at least partially free of a face of the valve element.

A valve seat insert made of an iron-base sintered alloy is configured to have a structure in which the base matrix phase is a fine carbide precipitation phase in which a fine carbide being 10 m or less in size is precipitated and which has a hardness of 550 HV or more in Vickers hardness; and in the base matrix phase, hard-particles having a hardness of 650-1200 HV in Vickers hardness are dispersed in an area percentage of 20-40%, a diffusional phase is formed in an area percentage of more than 0% and not more than 5%, and solid-lubricant particles are dispersed in an area percentage of 0-5%. Even if a valve having a high face hardness of 400 HV or more, or 600 HV or more is used, a facing valve seat insert wears only slightly, improving valve train durability.

The invention relates to a gas metering valve (1) for a dual fuel engine (17), which has a displaceable closing body (6) which, in a position of resting against a valve seat (5), closes the gas metering valve (1) and, in a position of being lifted off from the valve seat (5), opens the gas metering valve (1). The gas metering valve (1) is actuatable in a gas operating mode, in which the gas metering valve (1) meters combustion gas via a gas channel (13) into an intake manifold (15) of the dual fuel engine (17), and in a liquid fuel operating mode, in which the gas metering valve (1) remains sealingly closed against the pressure prevalent in the intake manifold (15). The valve seat (5) is movably situated along a valve seat guide (4), the valve seat (5), owing to the combustion gas pressure in the gas channel (13), in the gas operating mode being pressed away from the closing body (6) against a stop (20) in the gas metering valve (1) and is kept in its operating position, and the valve seat (5) in the liquid fuel operating mode being sealingly pressed by the pressure from the intake manifold (15) against the closing body (6).

In an electromagnetic fuel injection which is structured such that both end surfaces of an inner circumferential iron core portion and an outer circumferential iron core portion face a movable iron core, and a non-magnetic portion made of a metal material is provided between both end surfaces, an object of the present invention is to realize a structure of the electromagnetic fuel injector in which a surface of a target object is unlikely to be affected by a heat treatment with the surface facing the movable iron core. In an electromagnetic fuel injector 1 of the present invention which is structured such that both end surfaces of an inner circumferential iron core portion 401a and an outer circumferential iron core portion 401b face a movable iron core 402, and a non-magnetic portion 401d made of a metal material is provided between both end surfaces, in order to achieve this object, heat in a target member to be heat treated is generated by applying energy to a target member's surface which is different from a target member's surface that faces the movable iron core 402. More preferably, energy is applied to a surface different from a surface on a side that faces the movable iron core 402.

The present invention provides an improved fuel injection system and related method for controlling fuel heating and circulation in diesel type engines configured to use carbonaceous aqueous slurry fuels. The fuel injection system comprises: at least one fuel injector including an injector nozzle through which fuel is atomised and a fuel injector pump for pressurising fuel for supply to the injector nozzle; and a controlled bleed valve fluidly connected to each fuel injector and positioned to allow a controlled amount of carbonaceous aqueous slurry fuel to flow from the fuel injector.

An electromagnetic valve includes a driving portion, a valve body, and a valve element. The driving portion generates a magnetic attractive force according to an energization. The valve body has an orifice through which a fluid flows, and a valve seat around an opening portion of the orifice. The valve element displaces according to the magnetic attractive force and a fluid force that is applied from the fluid, to vary a passage area between the valve element and the valve seat. When the valve element is placed at a position separated farthest from the valve seat, the passage area between the valve element and the valve seat is less than or equal to a passage area of the orifice.

A fuel injector, comprising an injector body having a longitudinal axis, an injector cavity, an injector orifice at a distal end of the injector cavity, and an inlet conduit configured to supply fuel into the injector cavity, a nozzle valve in the injector cavity, a drain circuit configured to drain fuel from the injector cavity to a low pressure drain, a pilot valve in flow communication with the drain circuit, a chamber housing having an inlet passage to receive fuel from the injector cavity, a return port in flow communication with the pilot valve to drain fuel to the drain circuit, and an abutting surface surrounding the return port, and a control body slidably disposed in the chamber housing, the control body having, a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis parallel with the injector body longitudinal axis, a first depression at the distal end defining a first control chamber in which one end of the nozzle valve is guided, a second depression at the proximal end defining a second control chamber in flow communication with the return port, and an annular seal disposed radially of the second depression having a first diameter at an inner surface and a second diameter at an outer surface, wherein the first diameter is smaller than the second diameter.

A valve seat insert made of an iron-base sintered alloy is configured to have a structure in which the base matrix phase is a fine carbide precipitation phase in which a fine carbide being 10 m or less in size is precipitated and which has a hardness of 550 HV or more in Vickers hardness; and in the base matrix phase, hard-particles having a hardness of 650-1200 HV in Vickers hardness are dispersed in an area percentage of 20-40%, a diffusional phase is formed in an area percentage of more than 0% and not more than 5%, and solid-lubricant particles are dispersed in an area percentage of 0-5%. Even if a valve having a high face hardness of 400 HV or more, or 600 HV or more is used, a facing valve seat insert wears only slightly, improving valve train durability.

A fuel metering unit including a movable element including at least one fuel passage section opening upstream towards a fuel supply conduit and opening downstream towards a conduit of use through a metering slot with a flared profile having a narrow passage section flaring as far as a wide passage section, the movable element being able to be moved with respect to a fixed element between a low flow rate position in which the metering slot is for a large part obstructed and a high flow rate position in which the metering slot is for a large part exposed, the metering slot being made in the fixed element or in the movable element and its obstruction being obtained by covering the slot with a wall of the movable element or of the fixed element.