Abstract:
A continuously variable valve lift mechanism for an internal combustion engine includes a cam, a cam follower, a valve follower, a rocker shaft, and a rocker arm. The cam follower includes a first roller driven by the cam and a second roller. The valve follower includes a driven face in contact with the second roller of the cam follower and a driving face. The rocker shaft contacts the valve follower. Rotational movement of the rocker shaft about a rocker shaft rotational axis results in movement of the driven face with respect to the second roller. The rocker arm has a pivot axis and is in contact with the driving face of the valve follower.
Abstract:
A rocker arm has a first roller for engaging a first rotatable cam surface, whereby at least part of the rocker arm can be pivoted by at least the first rotatable cam surface to move a valve to cause a first valve event, and a further roller for engaging a further rotatable cam surface, whereby at least part of the rocker arm can be pivoted by the further rotatable cam surface to move the valve to cause a second valve event which is different from the first valve event. The rocker arm is configurable in a first mode of operation in which one of the first and second valve events occur and a second mode of operation in which both the first and second valve events occur or the other of the first and second valve events occur.
Abstract:
A continuously variable valve lift mechanism for an internal combustion engine includes a cam, a cam follower, a valve follower, a rocker shaft, and a rocker arm. The cam follower includes a first roller driven by the cam and a second roller. The valve follower includes a driven face in contact with the second roller of the cam follower and a driving face. The rocker shaft contacts the valve follower. Rotational movement of the rocker shaft about a rocker shaft rotational axis results in movement of the driven face with respect to the second roller. The rocker arm has a pivot axis and is in contact with the driving face of the valve follower
Abstract:
Provided are a drive cam having an improved wear resistant sliding surface that gives the drive cam enhanced durability and a valve operating system in an engine with such a drive cam. The drive cam of the present invention, made of a nitriding steel, has on its sliding surface, a hardened surface formed by nitrocarburizing wherein the hardened layer lies on top of the sliding surface. It is preferred that the driven mechanism used in combination with the drive cam has, in its sliding surface against which the drive cam slides, a chrome-plated layer and thereon a diamond-like carbon coating.
Abstract:
A camshaft may have an inner shaft and an outer shaft, each rotatable relative to the other. An adjusting device may include a first phase adjuster and a second phase adjuster. The outer shaft may be mounted in a stationary counter bearing adjacent to the adjusting device and the adjusting device may have a first phase adjuster and a second phase adjuster. The counter bearing may be designed as a slide bearing and oil supply to the phase adjusters may take place via the slide bearing. The slide bearing may have a first, second and third oil channel. The first oil channel may act on the first phase adjuster with corresponding oil flows, the second oil channel may act on the second phase adjuster with a first oil flow, and the third oil channel may act on the second phase adjuster with a second oil flow.
Abstract:
A cam target wheel for a vehicle may include a camshaft; and a lobe, formed on an outer circumferential surface of the camshaft, for recognizing a ridge and valley of a cam vibration waveform.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a shaft-hub connection, in particular of assembled camshafts (10) for combustion engines, at which at least two functional parts (14, 16, 18) are shrunk or pressed onto corresponding rotationally symmetric shaft sections (24, 26, 28) with the hub thereof, wherein in an assembly direction (30) of the functional parts (14, 16, 18), the first section (24) is designed with a larger exterior circumference than the second section (26). According to the invention, the exterior circumference of the first shaft section (24) has a configuration, which varies between two base circles (dImin) and (dIf), over which first shaft section (24) the second functional part (16) with a corresponding interior circumference can be slid, which varies between two base circles (DIIf) and (DIImax), wherein in the assembly state the smaller base circle (DIIf) and the larger base circle (DIImax) of the second functional part (16) have a larger dimension than the corresponding base circles (dIf) and (dImin) of the first shaft section (24).
Abstract:
A variable displacement internal combustion engine having a cylinder block and a cylinder head attached thereto. The variable displacement internal combustion engine includes at least one switching hydraulic lash adjuster. A lash adjuster oil feed passage is at least partially defined by one of the cylinder block and the cylinder head. The lash adjuster oil feed passage is operable to communicate pressurized oil to the at least one switching hydraulic lash adjuster. A distributed accumulator is disposed within the lash adjuster oil feed passage and operates to attenuate oil pressure spikes within the lash adjuster oil feed passage.
Abstract:
The present invention is to provide a high-precision sintered cam lobe part which has high dimensional accuracy even when producing a cam lobe having a complicated shape and needs no grinding processing after fabricated while it has high wear resistance and pitting resistance. In order to attain the above object, the high-precision sintered cam lobe part of the present invention is a sintered cam lobe part obtained by subjecting a sintering powder to compression-molding and sintering one time only or two or more times repetitively to make the powder into a predetermined form and by carrying out thermal refining of the resulting body as required, wherein the cam lobe part is made of an iron-based sintered alloy comprising one or both of 0.3 to 5.0% by weight of Ni and 0.2 to 4.0% by weight of Cu, 0.5 to 1.2% by weight of C and unavoidable impurities, which is balanced with Fe, and has a density of 7.3 g/cm3 or more, the hardness of the outer periphery of the cam lobe of 45 HRC or more and the rate of dimensional change from the molded body obtained in the final compressing process to the sintered body obtained in the final sintering process within ±0.5%.
Abstract translation:本发明提供一种高精度烧结凸轮凸部,即使在制造形状复杂的凸轮凸角时也具有高尺寸精度,并且在制造时不需要研磨加工,同时具有高的耐磨性和耐点蚀性。 为了达到上述目的,本发明的高精度烧结凸轮凸部是烧结凸轮凸部,其通过对烧结粉末进行压缩成型和烧结一次,重复一次或两次以上, 粉末成预定形式,并根据需要进行所得体的热精炼,其中凸轮凸角部分由铁基烧结合金制成,其包含0.3至5.0重量%的Ni和0.2至4.0重量%中的一个或两个, 的Cu,0.5〜1.2重量%的C和不可避免的杂质,其与Fe平衡,并且具有7.3g / cm 3以上的密度,外周的硬度 45HRC以上的凸轮凸角和从最终压制工序得到的成型体到在最终烧结工序中得到的烧结体的尺寸变化率在±0.5%以内。
Abstract:
A line of small internal combustion engines, including twin cylinder engines and single cylinder engines. The engines each include a crankcase, and one or more cylinder members attached to the crankcase, the cylinder members being separate components from the crankcase. A number of different crankcases are provided for various types of single and two cylinder engines, the crankcases having common mounting structure to which the cylinder members may be attached. Thus, the manner in which the cylinder members are attached to the crankcases is the same for each of the different types of crankcases. Two different types of cylinder members are provided, one having a side valve or “L-head” valve train, and the other having an overhead cam (“OHV”) valve train. The cylinder members are therefore modular components which may be selectively used in a variety of different types of engines.