This application claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. ยง119 of German Application DE 20 2004 009 755.9 filed Jun. 21, 2004, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention pertains to a device for extracting a nozzle assembly of a fuel injection installation, which is pressed into a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine.
So-called fuel injection installations are used in modern engines to supply internal combustion engines with fuel. They are used regardless of whether the engine is a so-called gasoline engine or a diesel engine. Constructions in which a so-called nozzle assembly is inserted directly into the cylinder head are used to inject the fuel into the combustion chamber. The nozzle assembly passes through a so-called calve cover mounted on the cylinder head and is pressed, for example, into a mounting hole of the cylinder head. The nozzle assembly has an approximately cylindrically shaped mounting section for this purpose. At its end directed toward the combustion chamber, this nozzle assembly is provided with the injection nozzle proper. At its opposite end protruding from the cylinder head, the nozzle assembly has a radially expanded head part, which is provided with a connection pipe for the fuel supply, on the one hand, and with a connector plug for actuating a control valve arranged in an integrated manner in the head part, on the other hand.
To secure the nozzle assembly in the mounting hole of the cylinder head, the mounting shaft of the nozzle assembly has, directly below its head part, two lateral milled-out recesses, which form a stop face towards the head part, on the one hand, and another pair of stop faces toward the injection nozzle, on the other hand. These milled-out recesses form two sides extending in parallel to one another and in parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the nozzle assembly. To secure the nozzle assembly in the hole of the cylinder head, a fork-shaped clamping claw each is provided, which engages with its fork legs the milled-out recesses of the mounting shaft and holds the nozzle assembly tightly in the hole of the cylinder head via the stop faces of the milled-out recesses, which said stop faces are directed toward the injection nozzle. The clamping claw is fastened to the cylinder head by means of a mounting screw.
Furthermore, in the area of its end area located opposite the two fork legs, the clamping claw has a support lever, which is provided with a depression. With this depression of the support lever, the clamping claw is supported on a pressing ball, which is arranged in the valve cover of the cylinder head and partially projects from the valve cover of the cylinder head vertically in the upwardly direction. Together with the support lever of the clamping claw, this pressing ball forms a type of pivoted mount of the clamping claw, so that the latter secures the nozzle assembly in the hole of the cylinder head with its fork legs when the mounting screw is tightened. Furthermore, the nozzle assembly can also be pressed into the mounting hole of the cylinder head with the clamping claw because of this special mounting of the nozzle assembly via the stop faces of the milled-out recesses. Furthermore, the nozzle assembly is also fixed in its angular position by the fork legs of the clamping claw.
It was now found that it is extremely difficult to extract such a nozzle assembly from the mounting hole of the cylinder head after a longer operating time of the internal combustion engine.
Moreover, it should be noted that the valve cover extends upwardly up to the head part of the nozzle assembly in the area surrounding the head part of the nozzle assembly and it has only a short distance from the head part. There is only an extremely short distance between the valve cover and the head part of the nozzle assembly especially in the areas extending at right angles to the clamping claw.
Furthermore, the electric connector plug is screwed onto the head part and can be removed to remove the nozzle assembly from the head part. An internal thread arranged in the head part is freely accessible for attaching an extraction device after the removal of this connector plug, i.e., a type of support pipe, which is supported at the valve cover in the area surrounding the one through hole of the valve cover during the subsequent extraction operation, can be actually pushed over the head part to extract the nozzle assembly. However, because of the extremely short distance between the valve cover and the head part of the nozzle assembly, such a support pipe can be provided with an extremely small wall cross section only to be pushed into the intermediate space between the head part and the valve cover. This has, in turn, the consequence that especially in case of extremely strong tensile forces, deformation will occur due to the high surface pressure between the front surface of the support pipe and the surface of the valve cover. This high surface pressure leads to unacceptable deformations in the area surrounding the through hole of the valve cover, so that the latter may possibly have to be replaced after the extraction of the nozzle assembly.
Consequently, the basic object of the present invention is to improve a device for extracting a nozzle assembly, which device is of the above-described type, such that such deformations cannot occur.
The object is accomplished according to the present invention by inserting a divided support pipe, which is formed from two ring sections, which can be placed individually on the valve cover in the area surrounding the nozzle assembly, between the support pipe of the extraction device and the surface of the valve cover. An enlargement of the support surface for the support pipe is thus achieved, so that the above-mentioned unacceptable deformations of the surface and especially of the edge area of the through hole of the valve cover for the nozzle assembly are prevented from occurring with certainty.
The various features of novelty which characterize the invention are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and specific objects attained by its uses, reference is made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which preferred embodiments of the invention are illustrated.
In the drawings:
Referring to the drawings in particular,
At its upper end, the support cylinder 2 has a radially expanded cylinder section 10 for receiving the thrust bearing, which said cylinder section is provided with an inner mounting groove 12 in the area of its upper end edge 11. The locking ring 4 can be inserted into the mounting groove 12 to hold the thrust bearing 3 captively in the cylinder section 10 under a radial pretension.
The support wall, which extends vertically downwardly starting from the cylinder section 10, has an opening 14, which is open downwardly and with which the support cylinder 2 or the support wall 13 thereof can be pushed over a radially projecting connection pipe of a nozzle assembly, as will be explained in greater detail below. Starting from the lower front ring surface 15 of the support wall 13, which said front ring surface is interrupted by the opening 14, this opening 14 extends at least approximately to the cylinder section 10 of the support cylinder 2.
In the area of its end that is its lower end in
In the upper end area located opposite this mounting thread 16, the extraction spindle 8 is provided with an axially upwardly projecting hexagon 17, which is used to screw the extraction spindle 18 with its mounting thread 16 into the coupling thread of the nozzle assembly.
Starting from this hexagon 17, the extraction spindle 8 has an adjusting thread 18, which extends at least over half of its axial length and on which the extraction nut 9 can be screwed.
In the area of the cylinder section 10, the support cylinder 2 forms a circumferential, annular support surface 19 for axially supporting the thrust bearing 3. In the center of this support surface 19 the support cylinder 2 has a through hole 20, through which the extraction spindle 8 can be passed.
Furthermore, it can be recognized from
As it can also be recognized in this connection from
The general embodiment of such a nozzle assembly 40 is shown in a side view in
A connector plug 44, which is connected during operation with corresponding electric control lines of the fuel injection installation of the internal combustion engine, is provided above the head part for controlling a control valve (not shown) arranged in the head part 42 in an integrated manner. This connector plug 44 is detachably fastened to the head part 42 by means of a coupling ring 51.
Furthermore, it is apparent from
Such a mounted state of the nozzle assembly 40 in a cylinder head 60 is shown as a partial section in
Furthermore, a valve cover 63 is placed on the cylinder head 60, the valve cover 63 having a corresponding through hole 64 for passing through the nozzle assembly 40 with its mounting cylinder 41, the through hole 64 being arranged coaxially with the mounting hole 61 of the cylinder head 60 in the mounted state.
To secure the nozzle assembly 40 in the position shown in
To make it possible to obtain a corresponding clamping force of the two fork legs 66 and 67 on the respective stop faces 49 and 50 of the milled-out recesses 45 and 46 of the mounting cylinder 41 of the nozzle assembly 40, a pressing ball 70 is provided in the valve cover 63. This pressing ball 70 is arranged diametrically opposite the nozzle assembly 40 in relation to the mounting screw 68 and the threaded hole 69. For axial support at the pressing ball 70, the clamping claw 65 has a corresponding support lever 71, which extends radially in a direction opposite the direction of the two fork legs 66 and 67 of the clamping claw 65. It is ensured by this construction of the clamping claw 65 and by it being supported via the pressing ball 70 that the clamping claw 65 with its fork legs 66 and 67 will hold the nozzle assembly 40 in the operating position shown in
To make it now possible to extract the nozzle assembly 40 from the cylinder head 60, the mounting screw 68 as well as the clamping claw 65 are first to be removed. Furthermore, the connector plug 44 of the nozzle assembly 40 is to be removed by screwing off the coupling ring 51 from the head part 42. After removing the connector plug 44 from the head part 42, an internal thread 52 arranged in the head part 42 becomes freely accessible, as this can be recognized from
The two ring sections 5 and 6 are subsequently brought radially into contact with the mounting cylinder 41 of the nozzle assembly 40 and placed on the valve cover 63 in the area directly surrounding the through hole 64 of the valve cover 63. The ring sections 5 and 6 thus placed on the valve cover 63 in the area directly surrounding the mounting cylinder 41 now form a contact surface that is enlarged especially in the radial direction for the device 1 to be put on subsequently with its support cylinder 2, as this can be recognized from
It can also be recognized from
It can also be seen in
It can be recognized that because of the divided support ring 7 with its two ring sections 5 and 6, a sufficiently large two-dimensional force distribution is brought about on the valve cover 63 even in case of strong extraction forces, so that undesired deformations or even destruction of the surface of the valve cover 63, especially in the area surrounding the through hole 64 of the valve cover, are avoided. In addition, insertion is made possible in the first place by the divided design of the support ring with its two ring sections 5, 6, even under extremely crowded space conditions between the valve cover 63 and the head part 42 of the nozzle assembly 40.
The tubular piston is sealed toward the cylinder wall 79 in its expanded area by means of an O-ring 82. For sealing radially toward the inside, an additional O-ring 81 is provided between the tubular piston 76 and the guide sleeve 78 protruding into the tubular piston 76. For sealing the pressure chamber toward the outside, an O-ring 83 is likewise arranged between the guide sleeve 78 and the bottom plate 84 of the hydraulic cylinder 75. When pressure is admitted into the pressure chamber 90, the tubular piston 76 is pushed in the direction of arrow 26 and is thus moved out of the head part 89 of the hydraulic cylinder 75 toward the outside.
As can be recognized from
To couple this extraction device with a nozzle assembly, as this is shown in
To couple the threaded spindle 8/1 axially with the tubular piston 76, the threaded spindle 8/1 has, in its end area located opposite the mounting thread 18/1, an adjusting thread 18/1, onto which a corresponding extraction nut 9/1 is screwed. This extraction nut is supported on the top side on the tubular piston 76 with a radially expanded support collar 22/1 during the extraction operation, so that when the tubular piston is activated and adjusted in the direction of arrow 26, the threaded spindle is pulled in the same direction.
This embodiment according to
It can also be recognized from
Based on the use of the tubular piston cylinder 75 with its threaded spindle 8/1, this tubular piston cylinder may also be used as an alternative to the threaded spindle 8. If the adjusting thread 18/1 of the threaded spindle 8/1 is provided with a greater length, as this can be recognized as an example from
While specific embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail to illustrate the application of the principles of the invention, it will be understood that the invention may be embodied otherwise without departing from such principles.
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