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US 10,309,264 B2Granted
Roller finger follower
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsMyungsik Choi, Younghong Kwak
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Abstract
A vehicle roller finger follower may include a main body including a supporting portion and a wall portion having one end portion integrally extending in a width direction of the supporting portion at both sides; and a pallet portion formed toward an outside in the width direction of the main body at the other end portion of the wall portion, wherein the wall portion has a mounting hole to mount a bearing, and a connection portion is formed at a lower portion of the wall portion at a position corresponding to the mounting hole.
Claims11
A vehicle roller finger follower apparatus comprising:
- a main body including a supporting portion and a wall portion having a first end portion integrally extending in a width direction of the supporting portion at a first side and a second side thereof;
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- a pallet portion formed toward an outside in a width direction of the main body at a second end portion of the wall portion,
- wherein the wall portion has a mounting hole to mount a bearing,
- wherein a connection portion is formed at a lower portion of the wall portion at a position corresponding to the mounting hole,
- wherein a first end portion of the connection portion is formed to be inclined downward by a predetermined angle from the supporting portion toward the pallet portion with respect to an imaginary horizontal line passing through the supporting portion and a lower portion of the pallet portion, and
- wherein the connection portion connects the lower portion of the wall portion and prevents a contact thereof with the bearing so that a load is dispersed while the connection portion supports the load acted from the bearing to the wall portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.