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Switchable support element

US6435148B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

INA Wälzlager Schaeffler oHG · DE

Inventors

Michael Haas · Weisendorf, DE
Bodo Rorig · Herzogenaurach, DE
Dieter Schmidt · Steinhagen, DE
Joachim Seitz · Frensdorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 5, 2001
Grant date	Aug 20, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 5, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF01L2201/00
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A switchable support element (1) requiring only a small design space. For this purpose, a slide (12) that serves to couple an inner element (6) to an outer housing (3) in the support element (1) is positioned laterally in a housing (2) arranged in the cylinder head (5). At the same time, a bore (8) in the inner element (6) for the slide (12) is made as a pocket bore, the housing (2) being seated through an annular extension (11) directly in a bore (9) of the outer housing (3). The slide (12) can be displaced electromagnetically or hydraulically in at least

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