Internal-combustion engines – Poppet valve operating mechanism – Plural valve trains – single actuator
Patent
1997-03-25
1998-09-15
Lo, Weilun
Internal-combustion engines
Poppet valve operating mechanism
Plural valve trains, single actuator
123 9039, 123 9041, F01L 126
Patent
active
058064770
ABSTRACT:
A connector member for a valve train mechanism of an internal combustion engine and in which the connector member takes the form of a separate element shaped as a block that is inserted within the grooved bottom end of one arm of a crosshead or the arm of a finger follower and provides surface-to-surface engagement with the side walls of the groove within the crosshead or finger follower so as to prevent rattles between the two parts and has the bottom surface of the connector provided with an opening which serves to accommodate the terminal end of a valve stem.
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Chrysler Corporation
Lo Weilun
MacLean Kenneth H.
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