Patent ID: 8146839

Claim:
A fuel injection device for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a housing; a fuel outlet opening disposed in the housing; a valve seat embodied by the housing in the vicinity of the fuel outlet opening; a valve element disposed in the housing and cooperating with the valve seat, the valve element having at least one first part and at least one second part; a hydraulic coupler coupling together the at least one first part and at least one second part of the valve element, the hydraulic coupler having a coupling chamber; a sleeve guided on the first part of the valve element, the sleeve at least partially delimiting the coupling chamber and being separate from the housing; and a guide element guiding an end region of the first part of the valve element oriented toward the second part of the valve element, the guide element being separate from the second part of the valve element, wherein the guide element has a fluid conduit with a through opening that connects a pressure chamber in the region of the valve seat at least indirectly to a high-pressure connection, and wherein the sleeve is acted on by a first spring that rests against a shoulder embodied on one side of an annular element, another side of the annular element is acted on by a second spring which rests at least indirectly against the housing, the annular element being coupled to the valve element in its closing direction by means of a coupling element.