Control valve, in particular an electrohydraulic control valve

Claim 1

A control valve for a diesel engine fuel injection pump comprising a housing having at least an inlet bore a return bore, and plural control bores, said inlet bore, return flow bore and control bores being disposed axially with respect to each other, a slider means having an axis for guided axial movement within the housing, the slider means having at least a first control edge means disposed axially adjacent the inlet bore and control bores for performing one of communicating or blocking fluid passage between the inlet bore and the control bores, a second control edge means disposed adjacent the return flow bore and the control bores for performing one of communicating or blocking fuel passage between the return flow bore and the control bores, and means for actuating said slider means for causing said first and second control edge means to perform said communicating or blocking operations, leakage line means disposed within said slider means, and means communicating said leakage line means with said return flow bore, means for inducing oil to flow between said leakage line means and said return flow bore, the control bores having axes lying substantially in a single plane at right angles to the axis of the slider means said axes of the control bores lying substantially radially with respect to the axis of the inlet and outlet bores and slider means, surfaces of the plural control bores intersecting at their inner extremities to form a chamber substantially cylindrically shaped and disposed about the slider means.