Patent ID: 8342146
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: B23P,F01L,F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A camshaft for use in an internal combustion engine, having a rotatably mounted shaft base body and a plurality of cam parts, each having an opening for its reception on the shaft base body, the shaft base body having a longitudinal profile, wherein at least one cam part is received so as to be rotationally fixed and axially displaceable on the longitudinal profile of the shaft base body, the at least one axially displaceable cam part forms a positive lock with the shaft base body in a circumferential direction with an internal profile corresponding to the longitudinal profile of the shaft base body, at least one cam part being axially secured on an outside circumference of the shaft base body, and the at least one cam part that is to be arranged axially fixed during assembly is pushed along the shaft base body across at least one receiving area for an axially displaceable cam part and then secured.