Patent ID: 6908049

Claim:
In a diesel injection nozzle-and-holder assembly, a nozzle comprising a nozzle body, a nozzle body chamber formed in said body, a sac below said nozzle body chamber, upper parts of the wall of said sac lying in an imaginary cylindrical surface, an open-centered body seat at the bottom of the body chamber, lower parts of said body seat lying in an imaginary conical surface that is coaxial with said imaginary cylindrical surface, said imaginary cylindrical and conical surfaces intersecting each other at an imaginary circular intersection, a plurality of injection orifices in said sac spaced below said body seat and opening from said sac to the exterior of said injection nozzle, a valve extending through the body chamber and having a bottom face including a conical face portion generally complementary to said body seat and having a given included angle, said valve being movable to a seated position in sealing relation against said body seat to cut off fluid flow to said sac, a spring urging said valve to said seated position, said valve having a differential-area portion exposed to said nozzle body chamber whereby the valve is urged upwardly from said seated position through a given lift distance to a full-lift position, said upward urging being by hydraulic pressure in said chamber and being against the bias of said spring, an annular notch extending from a first point in said body seat above said imaginary circular intersection to a second point in said sac wall below said imaginary circular intersection, said notch having a lowest wall that is at a given angle-to-vertical where said lowest wall approaches said second point, said nozzle, in said fully raised position of said valve, providing a given minimum cross-sectional flow area for fluid passing from said injection nozzle chamber to said sac greater than that associated with an otherwise identical nozzle that does not have such annular notching, the improvement wherein said given angle-to-vertical of said lowest notch wall where it approaches said second point is reduced to less than 60°, whereby sac cross-sectional areas that would have been bounded in part by a lowest notch wall having an angle-to-vertical of 60°, and which, of all parts of the cross-sectional area of the sac, would have had relatively great sweep area radii with reference to said nozzle's central axis, stand eliminated, and the percentage of reduction of sac volume that is realized incident to such angle reduction is higher than the percentage by which sweep area is reduced.