Valve timing control device
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMakoto Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Kinugawa
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Abstract
A valve timing control device has a case rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an engine. A plurality of projections, which project outwardly in a radial direction of the case, are arranged on an outer circumferential portion of the case at regular intervals. The projection is a chuck site allowing the engagement of a chuck tool of an automatic machine used for an auto-assembly work, the chuck tool being operated in the radial direction. A tapered face is formed at a side, close to the chuck tool, of the projection, the tapered face easily allowing the engagement of the chuck tool when the chuck tool proceeds toward the device.
Claims12
A valve timing control device acting as an actuator, comprising:
- a first rotor rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, the first rotor having a plurality of shoes inside thereof;
- a second rotor fixed on an end of an intake camshaft or an exhaust camshaft of the internal combustion engine and arranged rotatably in the first rotor, the second rotor having a plurality of vanes on the outside;
- an advance side hydraulic pressure chamber and a retardation side hydraulic pressure chamber defined between the vanes of the second rotor and the shoes of the first rotor;
- a lock member locking the first and second rotors at a required angle which the second rotor forms with the first rotor;
- an engagement hole arranged at any one of the first and second rotors to allow insertion of the lock member;
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- a chuck site being chucked by a chucking tool used for fitting the actuator to the engine, which is arranged at least one on the first rotor or on the second rotor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.