Patent ID: 7780144

Claim:
In a valve for a high-pressure pump of a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine, the valve having a valve member which cooperates with a valve seat formed in a housing part on which valve seat the valve member rests when the valve is closed in order to close a bore through the housing part, the valve seat having an at least approximately conical seat face which is located at a transition of the bore from a portion of small diameter to a portion of large diameter, the conical seat face being formed as a section of a cone having a first cone angle between the seat face and a diametric longitudinal axis of the valve seat, the improvement wherein the conical seat face, on its side oriented toward the portion of large diameter, is adjoined by a first conical surface formed as a section of a cone having a second cone angle between the first conical surface and the longitudinal axis which is larger than said first cone angle, wherein the conical seat face, on its side oriented toward the portion of small diameter, is adjoined by a second conical surface formed as a section of a cone having a third cone angle between the second conical surface and the longitudinal axis which is smaller than said first cone angle, wherein the first conical surface is adjoined by a third conical surface formed as a section of a cone having a fourth cone angle between the third conical surface and the longitudinal axis which is larger than said second cone angle, and wherein the second conical surface is adjoined by a fourth conical surface formed as a section of a cone having a fifth cone angle between the fourth conical surface and the longitudinal axis which is smaller than said third cone angle, resulting in an overall shape of the adjoined surfaces being a stepped trumpet bell shape, which flares out from the portion of small diameter to the portion of large diameter.