Patent ID: 7188789

Claim:
An atomizer nozzle for a fuel, comprising: a modular system of a nozzle body formed as a hollow cylinder and at least one disk-shaped nozzle body insert; the nozzle body having spray-discharge orifices that discharge into a metering space, and having at least one metering aperture, the spray-discharge orifices being situated at elevation levels so as to have a radial directional component with respect to a center line of the nozzle body, each elevation level having at least one of the spray-discharge orifices, and the at least one spray-discharge orifice of at least one elevation level being directly connected to at least one channel of the at least one disk-shaped nozzle-body insert that has at least one flow-through opening; and wherein the at least one disk-shaped nozzle body insert has an indentation on its outer diameter forming a section of reduced wall thickness.