Patent ID: 6055951
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: F01L,Y10T

Abstract:
A cam follower of a valve train of an internal combustion engine in the form a finger lever or a rocker arm for the simultaneous loading of three identically operating gas exchange valves whereinat one end, the finger lever or the rocker arm faces the gas exchange valves with a bottom surface, the finger lever comprising at another end, and the rocker arm comprising approximately centrally, a pivot;the finger lever is loadable on a top surface, and the rocker arm is loadable at another end on a bottom surface at least indirectly by at least one cam;the finger lever or the rocker arm possesses in the region of the gas exchange valves, hydraulic clearance compensation elements cooperating therewith;a passage for hydraulic medium to the clearance compensation elements starts from a bore of the pivot;whereinsaid passage is configured centrally and extends along or immediately next to a central transverse plane of the lever;said clearance compensation elements are connected to one another by a cross-passage in the form of a through-bore, into which cross-passage said passage opens;on each side of the central clearance compensation element in the cross-passage, there is fixed a hollow bolt on which a cam-contacting element configured as a rotatable ring is arranged.