Configuration of a tank connection in a camshaft adjuster with volume accumulator
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsJens Schafer, Martin Steigerwald, Michael Busse, Jurgen Plate, Andreas Wedel, Olaf Boese, Steffen Racklebe
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Abstract
A camshaft adjuster (b 4) for a camshaft (12) of an internal combustion engine (2). The camshaft adjuster (4) includes a stator (20), a rotor (22) housed concentrically in the stator (20) and mounted rotatably about a rotational axis (78) relative to the stator (20), and a volume accumulator (70) for receiving a hydraulic fluid from a pressure chamber (44) formed between the rotor (22) and the stator (20). The volume accumulator (70) has an outlet (76) in a direction of the rotational axis (78).
Claims10
A camshaft adjuster for a camshaft of an internal combustion engine, comprising a stator, a rotor housed concentrically in the stator and mounted rotatably about a rotational axis relative to the stator, and a volume accumulator for receiving hydraulic fluid from a pressure chamber formed between the rotor and the stator, the volume accumulator has an outlet in a direction of the rotational axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.