Patent ID: 8459571

Claim:
A method for operating an injection valve comprising a valve body that has a metering orifice and a valve pin through which, in a closed position of the valve pin, a fluid flow through the metering orifice is disabled and otherwise is released, the method comprising the steps of: for a particular metering of fluid: generating a control signal configured to provide a displacement of the valve pin, generating a first atomization signal configured to provide an oscillated displacement of the valve pin, applying the control signal to a valve pin actuator system coupled to the valve pin such that the valve pin is displaced to a displaced position, and applying the first atomization signal to the valve pin actuator system such that the valve pin is oscillatingly displaced around the displaced position that the valve pin assumes in response to the control signal, such that the control signal and the first atomization signal cooperate in an additive manner to displace the valve pin.