# US 10,119,434 B2 · Camshaft adjusting device

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- Number: US 10,119,434 B2
- Document ID: US10119434B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/126,956
- Filed: 2015-01-14
- Published: 2017-05-11
- Granted: 2018-11-06
- Earliest claimed: 2014-03-26
- Assignees: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Applicants: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Inventors: Torsten Zschieschang; Steffen Raecklebe
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10119434B2

## CPC

- F01L 1/3442: {using hydraulic chambers with variable volume to transmit the rotating force}
- F01L 2001/34453: {Locking means between driving and driven members}
- F01L 2001/34459: {Locking in multiple positions}
- F01L 2001/34463: {Locking position intermediate between most retarded and most advanced positions}
- F01L 2001/34466: {with multiple locking devices}
- F01L 2001/34476: {Restrict range locking means}
- F01L: CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES

## Abstract

A camshaft adjusting device, including a vane cell adjuster having a stator connectable to a crankshaft and a rotor, which is rotatably supported in the stator and connectable to a camshaft. Webs on the stator, divide an annular space between the stator and the rotor into pressure chambers, wherein the rotor has a rotor hub and vanes extending radially outward from the rotor hub, which vanes divide the pressure chambers into two groups of working chambers having a different acting direction, into each of which working chambers pressure medium flowing in or out in a pressure-medium circuit can be admitted, and a central locking device for locking the rotor in relation to the stator. The central locking device has two spring-loaded locking pins in an accommodating space, and lockable in a locking slot secured to the stator and lock in the locking slot when the rotor rotates from the direction of an “early” or “late” stop position into the locking position from different directions, wherein the locking pin forms a valve device together with the particular accommodating space, wherein the locking pin is a step pin.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A camshaft adjusting device comprising:
a vane cell adjuster including a stator connectable to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; and a rotor rotatably mounted in the stator connectable to a camshaft, multiple webs being provided on the stator, the multiple webs subdividing an annular space between the stator and the rotor into a plurality of pressure chambers, the rotor including a rotor hub and a plurality of vanes extending radially outwardly from the rotor hub, the plurality of vanes subdividing the plurality of pressure chambers into two groups of working chambers having a different operating direction, each of which may be acted upon by pressure medium flowing into or out of a pressure medium circuit, and
a central locking device for locking the rotor in at least one locking position relative to the stator, the central locking device including at least two spring-loaded locking pins lockable in a locking slot secured to the stator in an accommodating space, the at least two spring-loaded locking pins locking in the locking slot when the rotor rotates from a direction of an “early” or “late” stop position into the at least one locking position from different directions, one of the at least two spring-loaded locking pins together with the accommodating space forming a valve device, the one of the at least two spring-loaded locking pins forming a valve pin, and the valve pin being a stepped pin,
the valve device being fluidically connectable to a respective one of the working chambers via a first or a second outflow pressure medium line, an inflow pressure medium line being connected only to the second outflow pressure medium line in a first switching position of the valve device, and the first outflow pressure medium line and the second outflow pressure medium line being fluidically connected to the inflow pressure medium line in a second switching position.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The camshaft adjusting device as recited in claim 1 wherein in a first switching position of the valve device, the inflow pressure medium line is fluidically connected to the respective one of the working chambers exclusively via at least one check valve, and the valve device in a second switching position free flowingly connects at least one inflow pressure medium line to a respective one of the plurality of pressure chambers.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The camshaft adjusting device as recited in claim 2 wherein the check valve is situated in such a way that a flow through the check valve is possible only in the case of a through-flow from the inflow pressure medium line in the direction of the respective one of the plurality of pressure chambers.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The camshaft adjusting device as recited in claim 2 wherein the check valve is formed by a band check valve.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The camshaft adjusting device as recited in claim 4 wherein the band check valve is situated on the valve pin.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The camshaft adjusting device as recited in claim 4 wherein the band check valve in the first and in the second switching position is fluidically connected to the inflow pressure medium line and to the second outflow pressure medium line.

### Claim 7 (depends on 4)

The camshaft adjusting device as recited in claim 4 wherein a band of the band check valve is pre-stressed radially outwardly.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The camshaft adjusting device as recited in claim 1 wherein a check valve is provided in the second outflow pressure medium line.