Fuel injection system for internal combustion engines with needle stroke damping

Abstract

A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines with a fuel injector that can be supplied from a high-pressure fuel source has an injection valve, with injection nozzles pointing toward the combustion chamber, and coaxial inner and outer nozzle needles assigned to the injection nozzles are triggerable as a function of pressure to open and close various injection cross sections at the injection nozzles. Each of the nozzle needless is assigned a respective damping piston, and the damping pistons are movable relative to one another and act on a damping chamber which can be made to communicate with a low-pressure return system via an outlet throttle. In addition to the damping chamber, a closing chamber is provided, to which an end face of the outer nozzle needle is exposed in the closing direction. The closing chamber can be made to communicate with the low-pressure return system as well, via a closing chamber throttle; the outlet throttle has a greater throttling action than the closing chamber throttle, so that the pressure in the closing chamber drops first, and only after a delay does the pressure in the damping chamber drop as well.

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