Internal-combustion engines – Poppet valve operating mechanism – With means for varying timing
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-04
2010-10-26
Chang, Ching (Department: 3748)
Internal-combustion engines
Poppet valve operating mechanism
With means for varying timing
C123S090150, C123S090120, C464S160000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07819099
ABSTRACT:
A rotary hydraulic coupling is described for use in an engine having a camshaft, a hydraulic phaser for driving the camshaft, and an oil feed manifold secured to the body of the engine and incorporating oil galleries for supplying oil to the phaser. The rotary coupling, which serves to connect the oil galleries of the oil feed manifold to rotating oil ducts which lead to hydraulic working chambers within the phaser, comprises a cylindrical first element rotatably received within and sealed relative to an annular second element, each of the first and second elements having bores that communicate with annular grooves in a mating surface of at least one of the two elements to establish fluid flow communication between the bores in the two elements, the bores in the first element being connected to axially extending oil passages formed within the first element. In the invention, the first element is formed of an outer tube and an inner spool, and the axially extending oil passages in the first element are formed by channels and/or holes in the inner spool.
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Lancefield Timothy Mark
Lawrence Nicholas James
Methley Ian
Chang Ching
Chernoff Vilhauer & McClung & Stenzel
Mechadyne PLC
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