Fuel injection valve for enhancing penetration spray of injected fuel in an internal combustion engine

Claim 1

A fuel injection nozzle comprising: (a) a nozzle body extending axially, having a guide hole opening at a lower end thereof, and a fuel pool chamber disposed at an upper location of said guide hole; (b) a poppet valve including a stem axially slidably received in said guide hole of said nozzle body, and a valve portion formed on a lower end of said stem and having a diameter larger than that of said stem, said valve portion being faced with the lower end of said nozzle body, said stem being provided with a plurality of first injection ports and a plurality of second injection ports formed in an area in the vicinity of said valve portion, each injection port having a first end and a second end, said first ends of said first and second injection ports being open at an outer peripheral surface of said stem and said second ends being in communication with said fuel pool chamber through a fuel passageway formed in said stem, said first ends of said first injection ports being spacedly circumferentially aligned, said first ends of said second injection ports being likewise generally spacedly circumferentially aligned, said first ends of said second injection ports being located downwardly of said first ends of said second injection ports, said first ends of said first and second injection ports being generally axially aligned, and wherein an axis of said first injection port and an axis of said second injection port extend in generally parallel relation; and (c) a first and a second spring, said poppet valve being normally upwardly biased by said first spring, so that said valve portion sits on the lower end of said nozzle body, when said valve portion being in a sitting-state, said first and second injection ports being blocked with a peripheral wall of said nozzle body which defines said guide hole, when a fuel pressure, which is higher than a first pressure level but lower than a second pressure level, is supplied to said fuel pool chamber, said poppet valve being moved downwardly against said first spring, thereby opening said first injection ports to inject fuel from said first injection ports, in this case said poppet valve being prevented from being lifted more than a predetermined lift amount by said second spring so that said second injection ports are closed, when a fuel pressure, which is higher than said second pressure level, is supplied, said poppet valve being moved downwardly extending said predetermined lift amount against both of said first and second springs so that not only first injection ports but also said second injection ports are opened and fuel are injected from both of said first and second injection ports.