Uchiyama Manufacturing Corp.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Seizo Watanabe

Natsuki Sugiyama

Tomokazu Sumida

Nobumitsu Okazaki

Akira Kamada

A fuel injection valve is mounted in a cylinder head by being inserted in an insertion hole provided in the cylinder head. A shoulder section is provided at the inlet portion of the insertion hole to be expanded in an annular shape. The fuel injection valve is provided with a stepped section expanded in diameter in a tapered manner to have a tapered surface facing the shoulder section. A vibration insulator is disposed between the stepped section and the shoulder section. The vibration insulator is provided with a circular annular tolerance ring making contact with the tapered surface of the fuel injection valve. A circular annular sleeve section coaxial with the tolerance ring is integrally formed on the tolerance ring to extend from the surface of a portion of the tolerance ring, the portion not facing the tapered surface of the fuel injection valve.

Vibration damping insulator for fuel injection valve

A vibration insulator which can compensate for axial eccentricity occurring in a fuel injection valve and suppress vibrations of the valve during operation of a combustion engine and a support structure for the valve. The vibration insulator is interposed between a step height portion of the valve and a shoulder portion. The step height portion is increased in diameter in a tapered fashion and inserted into an insertion hole of a cylinder head. The shoulder portion is annularly extended in an inlet portion of the insertion hole opposed to the step height portion. The vibration insulator includes an annular tolerance ring on an inner circumferential inclined face thereof with recessed tapered faces opposed to the tapered face of the step height portion and which abuts the tapered face. The taper angles of the tolerance ring and of the step height portion are set so as to be different.

Vibration insulator for fuel injection valve, and support structure for fuel injection valve

A longitudinally-endless gasket mounted into a groove portion formed in one of members to provide sealing between this one member and another of the members when they are fastened to each other. The gasket has a sectional shape corresponding to a sectional shape of the groove portion with a ratio (H/W) between a height (H) and a width (W) of the sectional shape being 0.8 to 5.0. The gasket is provided with a plurality of large projecting portions at intervals of 30 to 100 mm and a plurality of small projecting portions at intervals of 5 to 15 mm in a longitudinal direction of the gasket. A width (R) of each large projecting portion is larger than a width (X) of the groove portion by 0.01 to 0.9 mm. A width (R) of each small projecting portion is smaller than the width (X) of the groove portion by 0.01 to 0.6 mm. A filling rate of the groove portion by the gasket when the members are fastened to each other is 80 to 100%.

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Seizo Watanabe