Patent ID: 7017552
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: F02B,F02D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An operating mechanism, comprising: an operating lever; an adjusting lever; a valve element that is rotatably disposed in a channel, wherein said adjusting lever is connected with said valve element via a shaft; and a coupling element for interconnecting positions of said operating lever and said adjusting lever, wherein a distance of a pivot axis of said adjusting lever from a connection of said coupling element with said adjusting lever is variable as a function of a position of said adjusting lever, so that the pivot axis of the adjusting lever has a predetermined first distance from the connection of the coupling element to the adjusting lever in a first position of the adjusting lever and a predetermined second distance in a second position of the adjusting lever, wherein the first distance is less than the second distance, and wherein the distance depends on the position of the adjusting lever.