Patent ID: 7472845

Claim:
A fuel injector assembly comprising: an electromechanical valve for controlling the flow of fuel through the fuel injector assembly; and an orifice plate for defining a fuel spray pattern emitted by the fuel injector, the orifice plate including a pair of couplets, each of said couplets including a first orifice including a first outlet and a second orifice including a second outlet with said second outlet of said second orifice abuts said first outlet of said first orifice, wherein a first fuel flow through the first orifice impinges on a second fuel flow through the second orifice, wherein said first orifice for each of the pair of couplets is disposed normal to a fuel outlet surface of said orifice plate and disposed radially outboard of the corresponding second orifice, wherein the second orifice is disposed at an angle relative to the fuel outlet surface of said orifice plate.