Method for installing a sealing ring

{
  "publication_number": "US9840996B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Method for installing a sealing ring",
  "abstract": "A method for installing a sealing ring in a ring groove of an injector, in particular a fuel injector, in which the diameter of the sealing ring is enlarged with the aid of an enlarging tool and is inserted into the ring groove, and the enlarged sealing ring accommodated in the ring groove is reshaped to a predefined sealing dimension with the aid of a calibration tool. For the purpose of shifting a residual ring gap remaining in the ring groove during the reshaping process to the groove flank of the ring groove facing away from the combustion chamber, the reshaping process of the sealing ring is carried out by removing the calibration tool from the fuel injector.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A method for installing a sealing ring on a fuel injector for an internal combustion engine in a ring groove formed at the injector, the ring groove having groove edges with a groove edge diameter that is greater than the groove base diameter, the method comprising: enlarging a diameter of the sealing ring with the aid of an enlarging tool; inserting the sealing ring into the ring groove in an insertion direction that is from a first end of the injector towards a second end of the injector; subsequent to the insertion of the sealing ring into the ring groove, positioning a calibration tool on the injector at a position between the sealing ring and the second end of the injector; and subsequent to the positioning, shifting the calibration tool towards the first end of, and removing the calibration tool from, the injector, thereby reshaping the enlarged sealing ring in the ring groove, the reshaping of the sealing ring lessening an outer dimension of the sealing ring to a predefined sealing dimension; wherein a residual gap is present between the sealing ring and one of the groove edges, and a raised, circumferential, narrow bead, which is pressed into the inner ring surface of the sealing ring, is formed at the groove base.",
    "2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the reshaping is carried out by a hollow cone that is formed in the calibration tool and tapers against a removal direction of the calibration tool, a smallest inner cone diameter of the hollow cone being adapted to a predefined sealing dimension of the sealing ring.",
    "3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the enlarging tool has a cylinder section and a cone section connected thereto and tapers toward a free end, the enlarging tool being placed with the cylinder section on a front side on the fuel injector, the sealing ring being pushed over the cone section and the cylinder section onto the fuel injector and inserted into the ring groove, and then the enlarging tool being removed from the fuel injector.",
    "4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the fuel injector has a valve housing and a valve seat support protruding axially from the valve housing, and the ring groove is inserted from an outside into the valve seat support.",
    "5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising installing the fuel injector in a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine, wherein: the groove edges include a first edge and a second edge, the second edge being further from the internal combustion engine than the first edge the reshaping carried out by the removal of the calibration tool shifts the residual gap away from the first edge towards the second edge, with the sealing ring being braced against the first edge the bead retains the bracing of the sealing ring against the first edge throughout the installation of the fuel injector in the cylinder head.",
    "6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the positioning of the calibration tool on the injector includes applying multiple parts of which the calibration tool is formed to the injector and then closing the calibration tool with an inner conical surface of the calibration tool enclosing the injector at the position that is between the sealing ring and the second end of the injector."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "The present invention relates to a method for installing a sealing ring on an injector, in particular a fuel injector for an internal combustion engine.\n\nFuel injectors which meter fuel under high pressure depending on the driving condition of the vehicle and inject the fuel in a fine spray directly into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine are used for direct injection in internal combustion engines designed as gasoline engines. Such a fuel injector is described in German Patent No. DE 199 46 602 A1, for example. Such a fuel injector is inserted into a bore of a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine that seals a combustion chamber in such a way that the injector tip provided with injection openings protrudes into the combustion chamber and the sealing ring situated on the fuel injector creates a combustion chamber seal between the fuel injector and the bore wall of the cylinder head bore. The sealing ring typically having a rectangular cross section is made of a less elastic plastic, e.g., polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). The sealing ring is inserted into a ring groove present in the fuel injector prior to installation of the fuel injector in the cylinder head. Since the inner diameter of the seal adapted to the diameter of the groove base of the ring groove is smaller than the diameter of the ring groove on the groove edge, an enlarging tool 11 - as schematically shown in FIG. 1 - is placed on the tip of the fuel injector (FIG.",
  "cpc": [
    "F02M 61/14",
    "F02M 2200/858",
    "F02M 2200/95",
    "F02M 61/168"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "F02F 11/00",
    "F02M 61/04",
    "F02M 61/00",
    "F02M 61/14",
    "F02M 61/16"
  ],
  "assignees": [
    "Robert Bosch GmbH"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Thilo Beckmann",
    "Ulrich Fischer",
    "Johann Bayer",
    "Guido Pilgram"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2010-09-06",
  "publication_date": "2017-12-12",
  "grant_date": "2017-12-12",
  "priority_date": "2009-10-14",
  "application_number": "US-201013391234-A",
  "family_id": "43383001",
  "cited_by_count": 1,
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