Question about a curious injector thingy...
Question about a curious injector thingy...
Guys,
I have a question.
As you may read in my thread about the ELITE project, I found this thingy:
This thingy is usually used here, number 22:
But then:
So I thought: naaah ... lets take the hydraulic press and push that out. But the shape is rather unexpected:
See ? The 6 notches do not touch, and are appreximately 3/4 of the length of the whole pin.
The obvious question is: What is this? And why ?
I can think of (major) flow restriction, and thus dampening of high-frequent pressure pulses...
Does somebody know?
Kind regards,
Evgeniy
AHA!
It appears to be called an EDGE FILTER
https://www.google.com/patents/US6536417
Very interesting...