Internal-combustion engines – Poppet valve operating mechanism – Rocker
Reexamination Certificate
2008-12-24
2011-10-18
Eshete, Zelalem (Department: 3748)
Internal-combustion engines
Poppet valve operating mechanism
Rocker
C074S559000, C123S090430
Reexamination Certificate
active
08037856
ABSTRACT:
A rocker arm includes a pair of side wall portions formed so as to face each other, an engaging portion connecting the pair of side wall portions and adapted to engage with a rocking support member arranged in an engine, and a sliding portion connecting the pair of side wall portions and being adapted to be in slidable contact with a stem front end portion of an engine valve. The engaging portion includes a board surface portion connecting the pair of side wall portions and a protruding portion protruding from the board surface portion toward the rocking support member. In the protruding portion, a spherical concave portion adapted to engage with a spherical protruding portion of the rocking support member is formed as a depression.
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Hiramatsu Naoki
Nozaki Eiichi
Sakurai Masahide
Eshete Zelalem
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
OTICS Corporation
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