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US 4,903,650 AGranted
Apparatus for relative angular adjustment between two shafts in drive connection
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsRolf Ohlendorf, Willy Treyz, Gerhard Doll, Wolfgang Speier
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Abstract
An angular adjustment is provided between a crankshaft and camshaft by a hydraulically operated rotary vane, which is pivotably mounted on the camshaft and is supported on a sprocket wheel carrier driven by a crankshaft rotation of the vane causing a relative rotation to take place between the crankshaft and camshaft. The rotary vane is held in each of its two end positions by a spring device.
Claims20
Apparatus for obtaining a relative angular adjustment between a crankshaft and at least one camshaft wherein:
- a camshaft is positively connected to an end plate of a flange shaft and via an actuating means to a cylindrical hollow shaft, which surrounds the actuating means and has a driving wheel connected to a crankshaft;
- the actuating means divides an annular space located between the hollow shaft and the end plate and flange shaft into two separate working spaces;
- said actuating means being alternatingly connected with pressure oil, supplied from an engine oil circuit and returned again to it, as a function of the position of a control element located in the flange shaft,
- said actuating means being designed as a rocker which is mounted pivotably on the flange shaft about a pivot axis running parallel to an axis of the camshaft and wherein said rocker is in driving engagement with the hollow shaft and is caused to alternatively assume one of two end positions in the annular space between hollow shaft and flange shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.