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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2013
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Michael R. Raney, Mendon, NY (US);
Daniel L. Varble, Henrietta, NY (US);
Axel H. Berndorfer, Nittel, DE;
Stephan Breuer, Bertrange, LU;
James Zizelman, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A fuel injector for supplying fuel to a fuel consuming devise includes a fuel inlet for receiving the fuel, a nozzle tip for dispensing the fuel from the fuel injector, a conduit for communicating the fuel from the fuel inlet to the nozzle tip, a valve seat, and a valve selectively seatable and unseatable with the valve seat for selectively preventing and permitting fuel flow out of the nozzle tip. The nozzle tip includes a non-circular recess on a downstream side thereof and a metering hole on an upstream side thereof opening into the non-circular recess to allow fuel to exit the nozzle tip, the metering hole having a smaller area than the non-circular recess.