Fuel injection valve
09765740 · 2017-09-19
Assignee
Inventors
- Atsushi Takaoku (Hitachinaka, JP)
- Yasuo Namaizawa (Hitachinaka, JP)
- Hideharu Ehara (Hitachinaka, JP)
- Masahiro SOMA (Hitachinaka, JP)
Cpc classification
F02M51/061
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F02M61/1813
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F02M63/0071
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F02M61/18
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F02M51/0671
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F02M2200/8084
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F02M2200/8092
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
F02M51/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F02M63/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Abstract
A fuel injection valve is provided that can reduce variations in stroke length by reducing distortion during welding, and consequently can reduce variations in flow rate of injected fuel. The fuel injection valve has a nozzle; a fixed valve that is press-fit into a tip of the nozzle and has a fuel injection port from which the fuel is injected; and a movable element that forms a fuel seal section by abutting against the fixed valve, and opens and closes the fuel injection port. The fixed valve and the nozzle are fixed in place by welding at a position with no space due to press-fitting. A groove that serves as an empty space is provided in a continuation of a welded section that is formed in the fixed valve and the nozzle by the welding.
Claims
1. A fuel injection valve comprising: a nozzle; a fixed valve that is press-fit into a tip of the nozzle and has a fuel injection port from which fuel is injected; and a movable element that forms a fuel seal section by abutting against the fixed valve and that opens and closes the fuel injection port, wherein the fixed valve and the nozzle are fixed in place by welding at a position with no space due to press-fitting, the fuel injection valve comprises a gap in a continuation of a welded section formed in the fixed valve and the nozzle by the welding, the gap has a width that is twice of a thickness of the nozzle, and the gap has a depth that is 20% of the thickness of the nozzle.
2. The fuel injection valve according to claim 1, wherein an outer diameter surface of the nozzle is gradually inclined, relative to a longitudinal axis thereof, toward the fixed valve beginning at an upper end of the gap until a distal end of the nozzle.
3. The fuel injection valve according to claim 2, wherein the welded section is a lower end surface of a press-fit section in the nozzle and the fixed valve, and the gap is configured by a groove that is formed in the fixed valve on a contact surface between an outer periphery of the fixed valve and an inner periphery of the nozzle.
4. The fuel injection valve according to claim 3, wherein the groove reaches up to an upper end of the fixed valve.
5. The fuel injection valve according to claim 2, wherein the welded section is a press-fit section in the nozzle and the fixed valve, is at a position on an outer periphery of the fixed valve, and is formed with a penetrated section so as to penetrate from the nozzle to the fixed valve, and the gap is configured by a groove that is formed in the fixed valve.
6. The fuel injection valve according to claim 5, wherein the groove reaches up to an upper end of the fixed valve.
7. The fuel injection valve according to claim 3, wherein the press-fit section is provided in the continuation of a penetrated section by the welding.
8. The fuel injection valve according to claim 2, wherein the gap is a groove that is formed in the nozzle.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
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DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
(16) A description will hereinafter be made on a configuration of a fuel injection valve according to an embodiment of the invention by using
(17) First, an overall configuration of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment will be described by using
(18) A high-pressure pump, which is not shown, for pressurizing and supplying fuel and a piping for connecting the high-pressure pump and an upper section of a fixed core 107 are arranged in the upper section of the fixed core 107. The fuel supplied from the high-pressure pump is supplied in a pressurized state to a through hole 107A that is a fuel path at the center of the fixed core 107. The fuel is supplied to the inside of a nozzle 101 through a fuel path provided in a movable core 102 and a fuel path provided in a movable element guide 113.
(19) A seat surface of a spring 110 is provided on an upper end surface of a movable element 114. An adjustment element 54 abuts against an upper end surface of the spring 110 that is on an opposite side of the movable element 114. An urging force of the spring 110 to the movable element 114 can be changed by rotating the adjustment element 54 to change the intensity to compress the spring 110 in an axial direction. After the adjustment of the urging force, the adjustment element 54 is fixed to the fixed core 107.
(20) The movable element 114 is held by a guide member 115 and the movable element guide 113 so that it can reciprocate vertically. In a valve closed state in which an electromagnetic coil 105 is not energized, the movable element 114 abuts against a fixed valve 116 by the urging force of the spring 110. The nozzle 101 has a cylindrical shape. The fixed valve 116 has a bottomed cylindrical shape (a cup shape). The fixed valve 116 is fixed by welding after being press-fit to an open end of the nozzle 101. Plural fuel injection ports 116A are formed at a tip of the fixed valve 116. In the valve closed state in which the electromagnetic coil 105 is not energized, the tip of the movable element 114 abuts against and closes the fuel injection port 116A, and thereby blocks a flow of the fuel supplied from the high-pressure pump.
(21) The electromagnetic coil 105 is arranged on an outer periphery of the fixed core 107 and is formed with a toroidal magnetic path that is indicated by an arrow MP through a housing 103, the nozzle 101, and the movable core 102. The movable core 102 has an integral structure with the movable element 114.
(22) A plug for supplying electric power by a battery voltage is connected to a connector 121 that is formed at a tip of a conductor 109. The conductor 109 is connected to the electromagnetic coil 105. The energization/non-energization of the electromagnetic coil 105 is controlled by a controller, which is not shown, through the conductor 109.
(23) During the energization of the electromagnetic coil 105, a magnetic attraction force is generated between the movable core 102 and the fixed core 107 due to magnetic flux that passes through the magnetic path MP. The movable core 102 is attracted and thus moves upward until it hits a lower end surface of the fixed core 107. As a result, the movable element 114 is separated from the fixed valve 116 to cause a valve opened state, and the fuel supplied from the through hole that is the fuel path at the center of the fixed core 107 is injected from the injection port 116A into a combustion chamber of the engine.
(24) When the energization to the electromagnetic coil 105 is cut off, the magnetic flux in the magnetic path MP disappears, and the magnetic attraction force also disappears. In this state, a spring force of the spring 110 that pushes the movable element 114 in a valve closing direction is applied to the movable element 114. As a result, the movable element 114 is pushed back to a valve closing position at which it contacts the fixed valve 116. In other words, the fuel injection valve of this embodiment is a fuel injection valve of normally closed type.
(25) Next, a configuration of main components of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment will be described by using
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(27) The guide member 115 is provided with a fuel path that is not shown and communicates between an upstream side surface and a downstream side surface of the guide member 115. A movable element side seat surface 114B in a spherical shape is arranged on a downstream side of the movable element 114. In addition, a fixed valve side seat surface 116B in a conical shape is arranged in the fixed valve 116. In order to form the seat surface 116B, an axial length of the fixed valve 116, which is a total length thereof, is limited in view of workability and productivity.
(28) In the valve closed state, the movable element side seat surface 114B and the fixed valve side seat surface 116B contact each other to constitute a circular seat section for stopping a supply of the fuel from the upstream side to the injection port 116A.
(29) A moving distance of the movable element 114 from a position in the valve closed state as described above to a position at which it hits the lower end surface of the fixed core 107 after the valve is opened is set as a stroke length. Since the fuel path near the seat section is narrow and thus has high fluid resistance, the stroke length has a strong influence on a flow rate during a full stroke. Thus, the stroke length is adjusted with sub-micron accuracy. The stroke length is adjusted by adjusting a press-fit amount when the fixed valve 116 is press-fit into the nozzle 101. In addition, a target stroke length is set such that a desired flow rate for the specification of the engine to be used can be obtained.
(30) Here, a material used for the fixed valve 116 and the cylindrical nozzle 101 is stainless steel.
(31) After the fixed valve 116 is adjusted to achieve the target stroke length, a whole periphery thereof is welded in a welded section WP, the fixed valve 116 and the nozzle 101 are fixed, and the fuel is thereby sealed. In order to minimize the distortion by the welding, laser is used for the welding.
(32) The fixed valve 116 is configured to be press-fit into the nozzle 101. In order to facilitate assembly during press-fitting, an upper end of the fixed valve 116 is provided with a fixed valve guide 117, a diameter of which is slightly smaller than an outermost diameter of the fixed valve 116. In addition, an opening of the welded section WP between the fixed valve 116 and the nozzle 101 has a rounded shape.
(33) As a penetrated section by the welding is deeper (in the axial direction), joint strength between the fixed valve 116 and the nozzle 101 is increased. Meanwhile, as a width of the penetrated section (in a radial direction) is increased, a contraction rate thereof in the radial direction is increased, and the distortion in the radial direction is increased.
(34) Here, a description will be made on the configuration of main components of the welded section of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(36) As shown in
(37) In the laser welding, a portion irradiated with laser is evaporated depending on conditions such as output and a moving speed, and is formed with a dent when vapor pressure is applied to a melted portion.
(38) In addition, as shown in
(39) In this example, the welded section WP is configured to adopt a press-fit structure with no space in order to perform the laser welding of a keyhole shape, and an area with a depth Db in an upper section of the penetrated section 210 that is indicated by a broken line in
(40) Here, in this embodiment, as shown in
(41) Here, a description will be made on a function of the groove that is provided in the welded section of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(43) Here,
(44) Here, the tip of the nozzle 101 is deformed in an area of x by an amount of contraction y in the radial direction after the welding shown in
(45) Next, a description will be made on an effect of the groove that is provided in the welded section of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(47) First, the appearance of the deformation of the nozzle 101 during the welding will be described by using
(48) The amount of movement Δx is geometrically defined by the length x and the amount of contraction y, and establishes a relation in an equation (1).
Δx=x−(√(x.sup.2−y.sup.2)) (1)
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(50) In this embodiment, since the groove 301 is provided as shown in
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(54) Next, a description will be made on a second shape of the groove that is provided in the welded section of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(56) In this example, as shown in
(57) Stress generated by the contraction of the welded section is substantially larger than yield stress of the material, and thus the material reaches a plastic region and is significantly deformed. Thus, when the press-fit section 212 is in a high stress area due to the contraction by the welding, the entire press-fit section 212 is significantly deformed along with the contraction of the penetrated section 210. In other words, when the press-fit section 212 is sufficiently short, the starting point of the deformation of the nozzle 101 is set at the upper end of the groove 301 as shown in
(58) In the calculation result shown in
(59) Next, a description will be made on a third shape of the groove that is provided in the welded section of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(61) Compared to the first example shown in
(62) In this case, as shown in
(63) In addition, in this example, the groove 301A has a function of the fixed valve guide 117 that is in the case of the first example, and thus the fixed valve 116 can still be assembled easily to the nozzle 101.
(64) Next, a description will be made on a fourth shape of the groove that is provided in the welded section of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(66) In the first example shown in
(67) Furthermore, the empty space in the continuation of the welded section may be configured by combining the above-mentioned groove 301 and the groove 302.
(68) According to this embodiment described above, a change in the stroke length of the movable element can be reduced by reducing the distortion during the welding and the amount of movement of the fixed valve in the axial direction due to the distortion. As a result, since the variations in the stroke length are reduced, the variations in flow rate can be reduced.
(69) Next, a description will be made on the configuration of the fuel injection valve according to another embodiment of the invention by using
(70) Next, a description will be made on a configuration of main components of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(72) In this embodiment, after the fixed valve 116 is press-fit into the nozzle 101, the welding is performed at a position in the welded section WP on the outer peripheral side of the nozzle 101 as shown in
(73) As shown in
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(76) Next, a description will be made on the configuration of the main components in a second configuration example of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(78) In this example, as shown in
(79) In addition, as shown in
(80) Next, a description will be made on the configuration of the main components in a third configuration example of the fuel injection valve according to this embodiment by using
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(82) In this example, as shown in
(83) In addition, as shown in
(84) It should be noted that, in the examples shown in
(85) Furthermore, as shown in
(86) According to this embodiment that has been described so far, the change in the stroke length of the movable element can also be reduced by reducing the distortion during the welding and the amount of movement of the fixed valve in the axial direction due to the distortion. As a result, since the variations in the stroke length are reduced, the variations in flow rate can be reduced.
REFERENCE SIGNS LIST
(87) 54: adjustment element 101: nozzle 102: movable core 103: housing 105: electromagnetic coil 107: fixed core 110: spring 113: movable element guide 114: movable element 114B: movable element side seat surface 115: guide member 116: fixed valve 116A: fuel injection port 116B: fixed valve side seat surface 117: fixed valve guide 121: connector MP: magnetic path 210: penetrated section by welding WP: welded section 301, 302: groove