| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 074568000 | Adjustable | 26 |
| 20080257104 | Camshaft Assembly - The invention relates to a camshaft assembly comprising an inner shaft, an outer tube rotatable relative to the inner shaft, and two groups of cams mounted on the outer tube, the first group of cams being fast in rotation with the outer tube, and the second group being rotatably mounted on the outer surface of the tube and being connected for rotation with the inner shaft by means of connecting members that pass through circumferentially elongated slots in the outer tube. In the invention, the outer tube surrounds the inner shaft with clearance and the members connecting different ones of the cams of the second group to the inner shaft are inclined relative to one another and act to locate the axis of the inner shaft relative to the outer tube. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080264200 | Feeder for a Camshaft Adjuster - A feeder for a camshaft adjuster is provided, including a central screw, a camshaft, and at least one flow resistance element. The camshaft is provided with a bore for accommodating the central screw. A channel is located between the camshaft and the central screw, in which the flow resistance element is provided in order to affect a flow of a fluid in the channel. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090095124 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A CAMSHAFT - An adjustment device for a camshaft includes a brake system and a superposition gear system connected on a drive output side to the camshaft and on the drive input side to the crankshaft, such that to adjust the camshaft the superposition gear system dissipates part of the energy from the drive side into the brake system. The brake system is a frictional brake system, such that the necessary braking force is produced by a friction lining that operates in a slipping condition. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20100071503 | Adjustable Arc Cam - The present invention is directed toward a cam assembly comprising a cam, a drive shaft and an adjustable screw. The cam includes a first side, a second side opposite the first side, an outer perimeter and a thickness between the first and second sides. The cam further has a first elongated bore through the first and second sides and the thickness of the cam, wherein the first elongated bore has a length radially oriented in the cam and a first end and a second end. The cam further has an elongated threaded hole extending from the outer perimeter to and being in communication with the first elongated bore. The drive shaft extends through the first elongated bore. The adjustment screw is within the elongated threaded hole and is engaged with the drive shaft, wherein the cam assembly is constructed and arranged such the drive shaft can be adjustably positioned and fixedly secured relative to the cam at a plurality of positions along the length of the first elongated bore. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20130025403 | CAM PHASER CENTRALLY LOCATED ALONG CONCENTRIC CAMSHAFTS - A camshaft assembly for extending duration of a valve event including a hollow outer shaft, an inner shaft received within the hollow outer shaft, a plurality of cam lobes, and a phaser located between the plurality of cam lobes approximately in the middle of the inner and outer shaft. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130036860 | VARIABLE CAM, PARTICULARLY FOR MACHINES FOR APPLYING CLOSURES - A variable cam comprises a cylindrical skirt with a track followed by a roller movable along a guide comprised within a rotating structure, which is coaxial to the skirt. The track is interrupted at a portion in the region of maximum elevation of the roller. The cam comprises two arc-like elements proximate to the track portions proximate, on opposite sides, to the interruption. Each arc-like element is guided along a path in which, in each position a portion of a first portion of a side of the element is adjacent to the corresponding portion proximate lo the interruption. A second portion of the side. Joined with the first portion, is contained within a plane perpendicular to the skin axis. The presence is determined of a track portion within a plane perpendicular to the skirt axis between the ends of the arc-like elements and is adjacent, in every position occupied by the arc-like elements, to a portion of the second portion. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130091979 | DEVICE FOR PRESSING A TOOTHED RACK - A device for pressing a rack onto a pinion engaged with the rack, for a steering system of a motor vehicle, is equipped with a pressure piece, which can be loaded in the direction of the rack by way of a compression spring and is displaceably guided in a housing, and with an adjusting device for compensating play that occurs in the steering system. A spring washer is disposed between the adjusting device and the pressure piece, wherein the adjusting device has shoulder and the pressure piece has a recess or the pressure piece has a shoulder and the adjusting device has a recess in the region of the spring washer. The adjusting device further comprises two adjusting disks which are rotatable relative to one another and beat against one another at contact surfaces, and the contact surfaces have at least two beveled edges. The complete adjusting device is preinstalled as an assembly unit comprising the pressure piece, the spring washer, and the compression spring with the use of a spring pin. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130186231 | Pole Operating Device in a Medium-Voltage Electric Control Apparatus - The present invention relates to a device D for controlling the poles of an electric protective apparatus capable of driving a shaft ( | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130220069 | ADJUSTABLE CAMSHAFT - An adjustable camshaft may include an inner shaft and an outer shaft coaxially surrounding the inner shaft. A cam may have a cam body and a ring collar axially projecting from the cam body. The ring collar may be slidingly arranged with a radial gap on the outer shaft and have a receptacle for pinning together the cam and the inner shaft with a pin. A seal may be arranged in a region of the ring collar for sealing the gap. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130228039 | SLIDING CAM SYSTEM HAVNIG SLIDE GROOVES AND LOCKING MEANS - A sliding cam system having sliding cams ( | 09-05-2013 |
| 20140144283 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A camshaft adjuster ( | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140165776 | CAMSHAFT WITH AN AXIALLY DISPLACEABLE CAM PACK - A camshaft includes a carrier shaft to be mounted rotatably along a shaft axis and at least one cam pack or package axially displaceably disposed on the carrier shaft. The cam pack includes at least two cams and at least one adjusting member for axial adjustment of the cam pack. The cams and the at least one adjusting member are connected to one another in an axially adjacent configuration and can be mounted axially displaceably as a composite structure in a direct configuration on the carrier shaft by a rolling element guide with rolling elements. A cam pack or package and a method for producing a camshaft are also provided. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140208891 | CAM DEVICE - In order to make it easy to change the size of a cam device in the course of press mold design, there is provided a cam device including: a cam holder; a cam slider; and a cam driver, wherein the cam devices are grouped depending on the basis of width dimensions in combination of hardness of a sliding contact surface of the cam holder and a sliding contact surface on the cam slider end, and hardness of a cam surface of the cam driver and a cam surface of the cam slider, and the design structures of the respective groups are determined in such a manner that the maximum process ability in a certain group among the groups is larger than the minimum process ability of an adjacent group having a larger width dimension, and smaller than the maximum process ability in an adjacent group having a smaller width dimension. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140216202 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, including a drive rotation member, a follower rotation member, an electric motor serving to change a relative rotational phase of the drive rotation member and the follower rotation member, a torsion spring accommodated in an annular accommodation space having an axial closed end which is formed between an inner periphery of the drive rotation member and an outer periphery of the follower rotation member, and a stop plate fixed to the drive rotation member so as to cover a part of an axial open end of the annular accommodation space, the stop plate cooperating with the follower rotation member or a camshaft to restrict relative rotation of the drive rotation member and the follower rotation member within a predetermined angular range. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140283643 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND LOCK RELEASE MECHANISM OF VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control system includes: a check valve which is provided between an oil pump driven by the engine, and the lock release passage; an electromagnetic valve which is disposed between the check valve and the lock release passage; an accumulator disposed between the check valve and the electromagnetic valve; and a passage which is disposed between the check valve and the electromagnetic valve, in which the flow of the oil is stored, and which is arranged to release the restriction of the lock mechanism by a pressure of the accumulator by energizing the valve driving solenoid of the electromagnetic valve. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140352488 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTING DEVICE - A camshaft adjusting device having a vane-type adjuster which includes | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140373671 | SHAFT ASSEMBLIES SUITABLE FOR CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND RELATED CIRCUIT BREAKERS - Shaft assemblies include an elongate shaft having a plurality of closely spaced apart external notches with wall segments having a greater outer diameter than an outer diameter of the notches residing therebetween and at least one self-retaining locking ring that engages one of the notches to axially lock into position on the shaft and provide a pull out force that is between about 100 lbf to about 1000 lbf. The notches can have a width that is between about 0.010 inches to about 0.020 inches, on average, and a depth that is between about 0.001 inches to about 0.010 inches, on average | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150033906 | AXIALLY COMPACT ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN CAMSHAFT PHASER - A camshaft phaser for controllably varying the phase relationship between a crankshaft and a camshaft of an internal combustion engine includes a housing having a bore with an open and extending along a longitudinal axis. The camshaft phaser also includes a harmonic gear drive unit having an outer first spline, an outer second spline which is axially adjacent to the outer first spline and disposed within the housing, a flexspline disposed radially within the outer first spline and the outer second spline, a wave generator disposed radially within the flexspline, and a rotational actuator connectable to the wave generator such that rotation of the rotational actuator causes relative rotation between the outer first spline and the outer second spline. The outer first spline is fixed to the housing in order to prevent relative rotation therebetween and serves to close the open end of the housing. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150040716 | DUAL INDEPENDENT PHASER WITH DUAL-SIDED LOCKING COVER - A dual independent phaser, including: one only single locking cover; a first phaser section including a first stator, a first rotor, a first plurality of chambers formed by a first rotor and the first stator, and first locking pin non-rotatably engaged with the first rotor and axially displaceable to non-rotatably connect the first rotor and the one only single locking cover; and second phaser section including second stator, a second rotor, a second plurality of chambers formed by a second rotor and the second stator, and second locking pin non-rotatably engaged with the second rotor and axially displaceable to non-rotatably connect the second rotor and the one only single locking cover. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150059519 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER AND SEPARATING SLEEVE FOR A CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A camshaft adjuster has a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator with a hub for receiving a camshaft. First supply ducts and second supply ducts penetrate the hub radially, and a separating sleeve inserted with an end section into the hub and forms an outer axial supply space and an inner supply space which is separate from the former, wherein the outer axial supply space is connected in flow terms to the first supply ducts and the inner axial supply space is connected in flow terms to the second supply ducts. On the outer shell, the separating sleeve includes a number of axial grooves at least partially forming the outer axial supply space connected to the first supply ducts. The separating sleeve includes a number of radial apertures which connect the inner supply space to a second supply line. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150114170 | MAIN SHAFT FOR A SLIDING CAM VALVE TRAIN - A main shaft ( | 04-30-2015 |
| 20160017768 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A drive element ( | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160032789 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A cam shaft adjuster a drive element and an output element, wherein the drive element and the output element are arranged so as to be rotatable relative to one another and the camshaft adjuster includes a cover element which is fastened non-rotatably to the drive element or to the output element, wherein the drive element or the output element has a through-bore through which a screw passes, wherein the screw engages in a threaded bush, wherein the threaded bush projects both into a through-bore of the cover element and into the through-bore of the drive element or output element. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160108913 | ROTOR FOR A CAM PHASER WITH IMPROVED PROPERTIES - The invention relates to a rotor for a cam phaser wherein the rotor is provided for a rotation about a rotation axis and includes at least one first vane essentially radially extending away from the rotation axis, wherein a surface of the rotor includes at least one first face, at least one second face that is parallel to the first face, at least one first outer circumferential partial surface of the first vane, wherein a protrusion profile is provided at the surface. The invention also relates to a method for producing the rotor. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20150033907 | VARIABLE VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS - A variable valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotation member rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a driven-side rotation member integrally rotating with a camshaft of the internal combustion engine, an intermediate lock mechanism being selectively switchable between a locked state and an unlocked state, a plurality of hydraulic chambers, at least one of the plurality of hydraulic chambers being positioned at a lower side than an axis of the camshaft, a plurality of partition portions, each of the plurality of partition portions dividing each of the hydraulic chambers into an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber, an electromagnetic valve including a supply and discharge port that is positioned at an upper side than the axis of the camshaft and switching supply and discharge of fluid relative to the hydraulic chambers, and a pump supplying fluid to the electromagnetic valve. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150354416 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A drive element ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 074568000 | Timer devices | 2 |
| 20080257104 | Camshaft Assembly - The invention relates to a camshaft assembly comprising an inner shaft, an outer tube rotatable relative to the inner shaft, and two groups of cams mounted on the outer tube, the first group of cams being fast in rotation with the outer tube, and the second group being rotatably mounted on the outer surface of the tube and being connected for rotation with the inner shaft by means of connecting members that pass through circumferentially elongated slots in the outer tube. In the invention, the outer tube surrounds the inner shaft with clearance and the members connecting different ones of the cams of the second group to the inner shaft are inclined relative to one another and act to locate the axis of the inner shaft relative to the outer tube. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080264200 | Feeder for a Camshaft Adjuster - A feeder for a camshaft adjuster is provided, including a central screw, a camshaft, and at least one flow resistance element. The camshaft is provided with a bore for accommodating the central screw. A channel is located between the camshaft and the central screw, in which the flow resistance element is provided in order to affect a flow of a fluid in the channel. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090095124 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A CAMSHAFT - An adjustment device for a camshaft includes a brake system and a superposition gear system connected on a drive output side to the camshaft and on the drive input side to the crankshaft, such that to adjust the camshaft the superposition gear system dissipates part of the energy from the drive side into the brake system. The brake system is a frictional brake system, such that the necessary braking force is produced by a friction lining that operates in a slipping condition. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20100071503 | Adjustable Arc Cam - The present invention is directed toward a cam assembly comprising a cam, a drive shaft and an adjustable screw. The cam includes a first side, a second side opposite the first side, an outer perimeter and a thickness between the first and second sides. The cam further has a first elongated bore through the first and second sides and the thickness of the cam, wherein the first elongated bore has a length radially oriented in the cam and a first end and a second end. The cam further has an elongated threaded hole extending from the outer perimeter to and being in communication with the first elongated bore. The drive shaft extends through the first elongated bore. The adjustment screw is within the elongated threaded hole and is engaged with the drive shaft, wherein the cam assembly is constructed and arranged such the drive shaft can be adjustably positioned and fixedly secured relative to the cam at a plurality of positions along the length of the first elongated bore. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20130025403 | CAM PHASER CENTRALLY LOCATED ALONG CONCENTRIC CAMSHAFTS - A camshaft assembly for extending duration of a valve event including a hollow outer shaft, an inner shaft received within the hollow outer shaft, a plurality of cam lobes, and a phaser located between the plurality of cam lobes approximately in the middle of the inner and outer shaft. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130036860 | VARIABLE CAM, PARTICULARLY FOR MACHINES FOR APPLYING CLOSURES - A variable cam comprises a cylindrical skirt with a track followed by a roller movable along a guide comprised within a rotating structure, which is coaxial to the skirt. The track is interrupted at a portion in the region of maximum elevation of the roller. The cam comprises two arc-like elements proximate to the track portions proximate, on opposite sides, to the interruption. Each arc-like element is guided along a path in which, in each position a portion of a first portion of a side of the element is adjacent to the corresponding portion proximate lo the interruption. A second portion of the side. Joined with the first portion, is contained within a plane perpendicular to the skin axis. The presence is determined of a track portion within a plane perpendicular to the skirt axis between the ends of the arc-like elements and is adjacent, in every position occupied by the arc-like elements, to a portion of the second portion. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130091979 | DEVICE FOR PRESSING A TOOTHED RACK - A device for pressing a rack onto a pinion engaged with the rack, for a steering system of a motor vehicle, is equipped with a pressure piece, which can be loaded in the direction of the rack by way of a compression spring and is displaceably guided in a housing, and with an adjusting device for compensating play that occurs in the steering system. A spring washer is disposed between the adjusting device and the pressure piece, wherein the adjusting device has shoulder and the pressure piece has a recess or the pressure piece has a shoulder and the adjusting device has a recess in the region of the spring washer. The adjusting device further comprises two adjusting disks which are rotatable relative to one another and beat against one another at contact surfaces, and the contact surfaces have at least two beveled edges. The complete adjusting device is preinstalled as an assembly unit comprising the pressure piece, the spring washer, and the compression spring with the use of a spring pin. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130186231 | Pole Operating Device in a Medium-Voltage Electric Control Apparatus - The present invention relates to a device D for controlling the poles of an electric protective apparatus capable of driving a shaft ( | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130220069 | ADJUSTABLE CAMSHAFT - An adjustable camshaft may include an inner shaft and an outer shaft coaxially surrounding the inner shaft. A cam may have a cam body and a ring collar axially projecting from the cam body. The ring collar may be slidingly arranged with a radial gap on the outer shaft and have a receptacle for pinning together the cam and the inner shaft with a pin. A seal may be arranged in a region of the ring collar for sealing the gap. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130228039 | SLIDING CAM SYSTEM HAVNIG SLIDE GROOVES AND LOCKING MEANS - A sliding cam system having sliding cams ( | 09-05-2013 |
| 20140144283 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A camshaft adjuster ( | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140165776 | CAMSHAFT WITH AN AXIALLY DISPLACEABLE CAM PACK - A camshaft includes a carrier shaft to be mounted rotatably along a shaft axis and at least one cam pack or package axially displaceably disposed on the carrier shaft. The cam pack includes at least two cams and at least one adjusting member for axial adjustment of the cam pack. The cams and the at least one adjusting member are connected to one another in an axially adjacent configuration and can be mounted axially displaceably as a composite structure in a direct configuration on the carrier shaft by a rolling element guide with rolling elements. A cam pack or package and a method for producing a camshaft are also provided. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140208891 | CAM DEVICE - In order to make it easy to change the size of a cam device in the course of press mold design, there is provided a cam device including: a cam holder; a cam slider; and a cam driver, wherein the cam devices are grouped depending on the basis of width dimensions in combination of hardness of a sliding contact surface of the cam holder and a sliding contact surface on the cam slider end, and hardness of a cam surface of the cam driver and a cam surface of the cam slider, and the design structures of the respective groups are determined in such a manner that the maximum process ability in a certain group among the groups is larger than the minimum process ability of an adjacent group having a larger width dimension, and smaller than the maximum process ability in an adjacent group having a smaller width dimension. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140216202 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, including a drive rotation member, a follower rotation member, an electric motor serving to change a relative rotational phase of the drive rotation member and the follower rotation member, a torsion spring accommodated in an annular accommodation space having an axial closed end which is formed between an inner periphery of the drive rotation member and an outer periphery of the follower rotation member, and a stop plate fixed to the drive rotation member so as to cover a part of an axial open end of the annular accommodation space, the stop plate cooperating with the follower rotation member or a camshaft to restrict relative rotation of the drive rotation member and the follower rotation member within a predetermined angular range. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140283643 | VALVE TIMING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND LOCK RELEASE MECHANISM OF VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A valve timing control system includes: a check valve which is provided between an oil pump driven by the engine, and the lock release passage; an electromagnetic valve which is disposed between the check valve and the lock release passage; an accumulator disposed between the check valve and the electromagnetic valve; and a passage which is disposed between the check valve and the electromagnetic valve, in which the flow of the oil is stored, and which is arranged to release the restriction of the lock mechanism by a pressure of the accumulator by energizing the valve driving solenoid of the electromagnetic valve. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140352488 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTING DEVICE - A camshaft adjusting device having a vane-type adjuster which includes | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140373671 | SHAFT ASSEMBLIES SUITABLE FOR CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND RELATED CIRCUIT BREAKERS - Shaft assemblies include an elongate shaft having a plurality of closely spaced apart external notches with wall segments having a greater outer diameter than an outer diameter of the notches residing therebetween and at least one self-retaining locking ring that engages one of the notches to axially lock into position on the shaft and provide a pull out force that is between about 100 lbf to about 1000 lbf. The notches can have a width that is between about 0.010 inches to about 0.020 inches, on average, and a depth that is between about 0.001 inches to about 0.010 inches, on average | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150033906 | AXIALLY COMPACT ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN CAMSHAFT PHASER - A camshaft phaser for controllably varying the phase relationship between a crankshaft and a camshaft of an internal combustion engine includes a housing having a bore with an open and extending along a longitudinal axis. The camshaft phaser also includes a harmonic gear drive unit having an outer first spline, an outer second spline which is axially adjacent to the outer first spline and disposed within the housing, a flexspline disposed radially within the outer first spline and the outer second spline, a wave generator disposed radially within the flexspline, and a rotational actuator connectable to the wave generator such that rotation of the rotational actuator causes relative rotation between the outer first spline and the outer second spline. The outer first spline is fixed to the housing in order to prevent relative rotation therebetween and serves to close the open end of the housing. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150040716 | DUAL INDEPENDENT PHASER WITH DUAL-SIDED LOCKING COVER - A dual independent phaser, including: one only single locking cover; a first phaser section including a first stator, a first rotor, a first plurality of chambers formed by a first rotor and the first stator, and first locking pin non-rotatably engaged with the first rotor and axially displaceable to non-rotatably connect the first rotor and the one only single locking cover; and second phaser section including second stator, a second rotor, a second plurality of chambers formed by a second rotor and the second stator, and second locking pin non-rotatably engaged with the second rotor and axially displaceable to non-rotatably connect the second rotor and the one only single locking cover. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150059519 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER AND SEPARATING SLEEVE FOR A CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A camshaft adjuster has a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator with a hub for receiving a camshaft. First supply ducts and second supply ducts penetrate the hub radially, and a separating sleeve inserted with an end section into the hub and forms an outer axial supply space and an inner supply space which is separate from the former, wherein the outer axial supply space is connected in flow terms to the first supply ducts and the inner axial supply space is connected in flow terms to the second supply ducts. On the outer shell, the separating sleeve includes a number of axial grooves at least partially forming the outer axial supply space connected to the first supply ducts. The separating sleeve includes a number of radial apertures which connect the inner supply space to a second supply line. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150114170 | MAIN SHAFT FOR A SLIDING CAM VALVE TRAIN - A main shaft ( | 04-30-2015 |
| 20160017768 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A drive element ( | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160032789 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A cam shaft adjuster a drive element and an output element, wherein the drive element and the output element are arranged so as to be rotatable relative to one another and the camshaft adjuster includes a cover element which is fastened non-rotatably to the drive element or to the output element, wherein the drive element or the output element has a through-bore through which a screw passes, wherein the screw engages in a threaded bush, wherein the threaded bush projects both into a through-bore of the cover element and into the through-bore of the drive element or output element. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160108913 | ROTOR FOR A CAM PHASER WITH IMPROVED PROPERTIES - The invention relates to a rotor for a cam phaser wherein the rotor is provided for a rotation about a rotation axis and includes at least one first vane essentially radially extending away from the rotation axis, wherein a surface of the rotor includes at least one first face, at least one second face that is parallel to the first face, at least one first outer circumferential partial surface of the first vane, wherein a protrusion profile is provided at the surface. The invention also relates to a method for producing the rotor. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20150033907 | VARIABLE VALVE TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS - A variable valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotation member rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a driven-side rotation member integrally rotating with a camshaft of the internal combustion engine, an intermediate lock mechanism being selectively switchable between a locked state and an unlocked state, a plurality of hydraulic chambers, at least one of the plurality of hydraulic chambers being positioned at a lower side than an axis of the camshaft, a plurality of partition portions, each of the plurality of partition portions dividing each of the hydraulic chambers into an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber, an electromagnetic valve including a supply and discharge port that is positioned at an upper side than the axis of the camshaft and switching supply and discharge of fluid relative to the hydraulic chambers, and a pump supplying fluid to the electromagnetic valve. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150354416 | CAMSHAFT ADJUSTER - A drive element ( | 12-10-2015 |
