Internal-combustion engines – Poppet valve operating mechanism – With means for varying timing
Patent
1992-03-06
1993-03-02
Cross, E. Rollins
Internal-combustion engines
Poppet valve operating mechanism
With means for varying timing
123 9031, 123 9033, 123198C, 123 9012, 74568R, 74567, F01L 134, F16D 310, F16H 3508, F15B 1517
Patent
active
051899990
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a device for adjusting a relative angle of rotation of an internal combustion engine camshaft to a drive wheel and, more particularly, to a device in which a hydraulic linear motor is the actuating arrangement which acts upon an actuating mechanism between the drive wheel and the camshaft.
A device of this general type is known, for example, from EP-A-0 245 791 wherein the linear motor interacts with an adjusting mechanism which is used essentially in a front-face recess of the angularly adjustable shaft or camshaft. To this adjusting mechanism, which insignificantly influences the overall length of the internal-combustion engine, the linear hydraulic motor is assigned on a detachable engine power section cover with integrated hydraulic pipes and a control device for utilizing the space to the front-face end of the adjustable shaft or of the adjusting mechanism. The actuating of the linear hydraulic motor takes place by a hydraulic system which is separate from the internal combustion engine and has a separately driven pump.
In addition, a device has been suggested for adjusting the relative angle of rotation of a shaft to a drive wheel as seen in EP-A-0 363 600 in which a rotor of a hydraulic motor, which interacts with the adjusting mechanism of a first adjustable camshaft of an internal-combustion engine, is acted upon by the delivered flow of a hydraulic pump driven by a second camshaft. In this device, the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor, including the hydraulic pipes, form a unit which is assigned to the above-mentioned shafts and which is integrated in a power section area of the internal-combustion engine which is used for driving the shafts.
The present invention is based on the object of combining a device of the above-mentioned type with a hydraulic pump such that a compact space-saving unit is achieved for the structural integration in or on the internal combustion engine.
This object has been achieved in accordance with the present invention by such that a hydraulic pump with a pump rotor is arranged coaxially with respect to the longitudinal or adjustment axis of the linear motor.
The combination of the hydraulic pump, also known as a hydrostatic pump, and the linear motor in a coaxial arrangement advantageously results in a compact space-saving unit. This unit may, at the same time, serve as the smallest structural or assembly unit. For achieving a particularly compact space-saving unit, the linear motor and the hydraulic pump are arranged coaxially with respect to the shaft with the adjustable angle of rotation on a detachably constructed engine power section cover, in which case the unit according to the present invention and the engine power section cover form the next larger structural or assembly unit. In this arrangement, parts of the unit according to the present invention comprising the hydraulic pump and the linear motor may be an integral component of the engine power section cover. However, a separate construction of the unit according to the invention and of the engine power section cover is also conceivable.
The present invention can be implemented particularly advantageously by the selection of a radial piston pump and a linear motor constructed as a cylinder/piston unit. The radial piston pump, which is relatively small in size but has a sufficient delivered flow and a very high delivery pressure, therefore promotes the compact construction of the unit, in which the selected construction of the linear motor permits a good constructional adaptation to the selected radial piston pump. Consequently, an especially advantageous embodiment is achieved by the arrangement of the radial piston pump on the engine power section cover on the side of the shaft, in which the pump rotor is disposed in a rotatably movable manner on the periphery of the cylinder of the linear motor. For this extremely compactly configured unit, the drive of the radial piston pump can be achieved elegantly by simple devices by prov
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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
Cross E. Rollins
Lo Weilun
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