Patent 7540273 was granted and assigned to Bosch (company) on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A support element is provided for the mutual bracing of a fuel injector in a valve seat of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine and a fuel-distributor line. The support element is formed such that the forces acting on the fuel injector act only in the axial direction and have no radial component.