The invention relates to a fuel
injector (3) for operation with
combustible gas, wherein the fuel
injector (3) has, at a
nozzle end (25), a gas
nozzle assembly (23) having at least one gas
nozzle opening (27); wherein the fuel
injector (3) has at least one gas nozzle needle (21), which is associated with the gas nozzle
assembly (23) and is accommodated in an axial holder (29) in such a way that the
stroke of the at least one gas nozzle needle can be controlled, wherein each gas nozzle opening (27) leads out of the holder (29) having a radial direction component at the nozzle end (25); wherein the fuel injector (3) has, in the holder (29), a needle seat (31) upstream of the particular nozzle opening (27), which needle seat is provided for selectively blocking a combustible-gas flow path to the associated gas nozzle opening (27) in interaction with the gas nozzle needle (21); wherein the one or more gas nozzle openings (27) are distributed merely over part of the circumference in the circumferential direction (A) of the gas nozzle needle (21), wherein the holder (29), adjoining the needle seat (31) and extending away therefrom axially in the upstream direction, is asymmetric with respect to an axial center axis (B) through the gas nozzle needle (21), wherein the
asymmetry results from a cross-section expansion (33) of the holder (29) on a side of the holder (29) that lies radially opposite the at least one gas nozzle opening (27), such that a greater
mass flow rate of
combustible gas can be conducted in the holder (29) by means of the cross-section expansion (33) than on the gas nozzle opening side (35) opposite thereto; wherein the holder (29) is also shaped to apply a flow direction oriented toward the radially opposite at least one gas nozzle opening (27), already upstream of the needle seat (31) and by means of the cross-section expansion (33), to a combustible-gas flow (C) guided to the needle seat (31) by the cross-section expansion (33).