Patent · US Expired

Valve drive of an internal combustion engine

US5706770A · kind A · utility

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2Claims

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Assignee

INA-WALZLAGER SCHAEFFLER KG · DE

Inventors

Dieter Schmidt · Steinhagen, DE
Arndt Ihlemann · Herzogenaurach, DE
Bodo Rorig · Herzogenaurach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 2, 1996
Grant date	Jan 13, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 2, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T74/20882
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A finger lever for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine which finger lever is contacted in a central region by a control cam and cooperates at one end with a gas exchange valve in the opening direction while being pivoted at another end by a bore on a shaft for pivoting relative to a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine by means projecting radially beyond a peripheral surface of a shaft in the region of a surrounding cam follower.

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