Internal-combustion engines – Poppet valve operating mechanism – Rocker
Patent
1987-06-12
1988-03-01
Lazarus, Ira S.
Internal-combustion engines
Poppet valve operating mechanism
Rocker
123 905, 123 9039, F01L 118
Patent
active
047278323
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a roller rocker arm comprising a rocker arm body having a rocking center hole through which a rocker shaft is inserted and adapted to be rockably supported to the rocker shaft; a pair of forked projections projecting from the rocker arm body in a direction perpendicular to a tangent of a circle about a rocking center axis of the rocker arm body; a pair of pin holes formed through the pair of forked projections; a hollow roller pin inserted into the pair of pin holes and fixed between the pair of forked projections; a cam follower roller through which the roller pin is inserted; a plurality of needle rollers interposed between the cam follower roller and the roller pin for rotatably supporting the cam follower roller to the roller pin in such a manner as to extend in parallel one another in a longitudinal direction of the roller pin; a pair of disk-like spacers rotatably supported to the roller pin and interposed between ends of the needle rollers and the projections; and an adjuster mounted in the rocker arm body and adapted to abut against a valve.
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Miyamura Noriyuki
Nagano Shuji
Lazarus Ira S.
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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