Patent ID: 8371516

Claim:
A fuel injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, comprising: an injection valve member for opening and closing at least one injection opening; control valve embodied as a magnet valve for triggering the injection valve member; a sealing face embodied on an armature of the magnet valve, the sealing face being positioned into a valve seat of a valve element to close the control valve; and a pressure rod which is a separate element from the valve element, being received in a bore in the armature for receiving axial pressure forces, a diameter of the bore being essentially equal to an inside diameter of the sealing face, the pressure rod being directly braced against an end face of a bore in a stroke stop sleeve thereby transmitting the axial pressure forces from the pressure rod to the end face in the stroke stop sleeve, wherein the armature is movable without armature guidance between an upper stroke stop and a lower stroke stop, wherein a resilient guide lip is embodied on the armature and rests on the lower stroke stop on a bearing face thereof which is radially spaced apart from the valve seat, so that the armature is aligned and the bearing face and the valve seat of the valve element are ground to the same height, and wherein the guide lip is embodied on an outside diameter of the armature.