Claims
- 1. In an electromagnetic gasoline fuel injector of the type having a housing means providing a fuel chamber therein intermediate the ends of said housing means and which is adapted to be supplied with fuel at a predetermined supply pressure; a fuel injection nozzle means positioned in one end of said housing means and including, in succession extending from said one end, a spray tip means having at its free end a central axial passage therethrough from which fuel is to be discharged from the injector, an orifice director plate having orifice passages extending therethrough and a valve seat means with a central passage means extending therethrough coaxially relative to said central axial passage with one end of said passage means opening into said fuel chamber and which at its opposite end is in direct flow communication with said orifice passages; and an armature valve means operatively positioned relative to said passage means to control fuel flow therethrough; the improvement wherein said orifice director plate is of circular configuration and has an upstream surface and an opposed downstream surface with a central axis located coaxially relative to said axial passage of said spray tip means, said orifice plate having two sets of at least first, second and third orifice passages extending therethrough in circumferentially spaced relationship to each other with one of said sets being located on one side and the other of said sets being located on the opposite side of a vertical plane extending through said axis with said first, second and third orifice passages of said two sets being located on a circumference of a base circle on said upstream surface located concentric with said axis and wherein each of said first orifice passages having an axis extending parallel to said axis and located in a plane extending through said axis at right angle to said vertical plane; each of said second orifice passages having an axis inclined downward from said upstream surface at an angle relative to said axis and angularly orientated relative to one side of said axis of an associate said first orifice passage; and, each of said third orifice passages having an axis inclined downward from said upstream surface at an angle relative to said axis and angularly orientated to an opposite side of said axis of an associate said first orifice passage whereby the three streams of fuel discharged from the first, second and third orifice passages of each said set partially impinge upon each other within said axial passage so as to form two diverging atomized cone fuel sprays to be discharged from said axial passage.
- 2. In an electromagnetic gasoline fuel injector according to claim 1, wherein said spray tip means includes an external angular orientation means and wherein an internal angular orientation means is operatively associated with said spray tip means and said orifice director plate whereby to effect a predetermined angular orientation of said two sets of said first, second and third orifice passages in said orifice director plate to said external angular orientation means of said spray tip means.
- 3. An orifice director plate for use in an electromagnetic fuel injector of the type having an orifice director plate located between a solenoid actuated valve and a spray tip having an axial discharge passage therethrough for the discharge of fuel into at least one combustion chamber of an engine, said orifice director plate being of circular configuration with an upstream surface, a parallel opposed downstream surface and a central axis, said orifice plate having two sets of at least first, second and third orifice passages extending therethrough in circumferentially spaced relationship to each other with one of said sets being located on one side and the other of said sets being located on the opposite side of a vertical plane extending through said axis with said first, second third orifice passages of said two sets being located on a circumference of a base circle on said upstream surface located concentric with said central axis and wherein each of said first orifice passages has an axis extending parallel to said central axis and located in a plane extending through said central axis at right angle to said vertical plane; each of said second orifice passages having an axis inclined downward from said upstream surface at an angle relative to said central axis and angularly oriented relative to one side of said axis of an associate said first orifice passage; and, each of said third orifice passages having an axis inclined downward from said upstream surface at an angle relative to said central axis and angularly orientated to an opposite side of said axis of an associate said first orifice passage whereby the three streams of fuel discharged from the first, second and third orifice passages of each said set partially impinge upon each other within said axial discharge passage so as to form two diverging atomized cone fuel sprays to be discharged from said axial discharge passage. .Iadd.
- 4. An electromagnetic fuel injector including an orifice plate having two sets of orifice passages extending therethrough in circumferentially spaced relationship, each of said sets of orifice passages comprising at least a pair of orifice passages with the axis of one orifice passage angularly oriented to the side of the axis of another orifice passage, whereby the streams of fuel discharged from the orifice passages of each set partially impinge upon each other so as to form two diverging atomized cone fuel sprays to be discharged from said injector. .Iaddend. .Iadd.
- 5. An electromagnetic fuel injector including an orifice plate having two sets of at least first, second and third orifice passages extending therethrough in circumferentially spaced relationship, each of said second orifice passages having an axis angularly oriented to the side of the axis of the associated first orifice passage, and each of said third orifice passages having an axis angularly oriented to the side of the axis of the associated first orifice passage, whereby the three streams of fuel discharged from the first, second and third orifice passages of each said set partially impinge upon each other so as to form two diverging atomized cone fuel sprays to be discharged from said injector. .Iaddend. .Iadd.
- 6. An orifice director plate for use in an electromagnetic fuel injector, said orifice director plate having two sets of orifice passages extending therethrough in circumferentially spaced relationship to each other, each of said sets of orifice passages comprising at least a pair of orifice passages with the axis of one orifice passage angularly oriented to the side of the axis of another orifice passage, whereby the streams of fuel discharged from the orifice passages of each set partially impinge upon each other so as to form two diverging atomized cone fuel sprays to be discharged from said injector. .Iaddend. .Iadd.
- 7. An orifice director plate for use in an electromagnetic fuel injector, said orifice plate having two sets of at least first, second and third orifice passages extending therethrough in circumferentially spaced relationship, each of said second orifice passages having an axis angularly oriented to the side of the axis of the associated first orifice passage, and each of said third orifice passages having an axis angularly oriented to the side of the axis of the associated first orifice passage, whereby the three streams of fuel discharged from the first, second and third orifice passages of each said set partially impinge upon each other so as to form two diverging atomized cone fuel sprays to be discharged from said injector. .Iaddend.
Parent Case Info
.Iadd.This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/416569 filed on Oct. 3, 1989 now abandoned. .Iaddend.
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