Patent ID: 6971592

Claim:
In a fuel injection device ( 22 ) for an internal combustion engine, the injection device ( 22 ) having a housing ( 34 ) with an injection region ( 42 ), having a recess ( 44 ) provided in the housing ( 34 ), and having at least two valve elements ( 46 , 48 ), which are disposed coaxial to each other in the recess ( 44 ) and each cooperate with a respective valve seat ( 52 , 56 ) in the injection region ( 42 ), wherein the inner valve element ( 48 ) is shorter than the outer valve element ( 46 ), wherein a loading device ( 57 ) is provided, which at least sometimes acts on the inner valve element ( 48 ) in the opening direction, wherein a control piston ( 92 ) is provided, which cooperates with the inner valve element ( 48 ), and wherein the control piston ( 92 ) has a pressure surface ( 102 ), which delimits a control chamber ( 104 ) and whose force resultant points in the closing direction, the improvement wherein the loading device ( 57 ) exerts an approximately constant opening force on the inner valve element ( 48 ), and wherein a fluid pressure prevails in the control chamber ( 104 ), which can be temporarily reduced.