Patent ID: 6220213
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: F01L

Abstract:
A rocker arm installed in a cylinder head of a valve train of an internal combustion engine, said rocker arm comprisingon a first end of an undersurface, a support for a cam-actuated push rod, on a second end of the undersurface, a contact surface for at least one gas exchange valve, and between the first and second ends, a cross-bore through which the rocker arm is pivoted on an axle,the rocker arm can be uncoupled in a region of the axle from a pivoting movement in a region of the axle when the rocker arm is subjected to a tilt loading by the push rod thus deactivating the valve,the axle is guided in a slot of a pedestal fixed on the cylinder head, said slot extending in a direction toward the cylinder head,each of the axle and the pedestal comprises at least one reception for at least one respective locking element,wherein, for uncoupling the pivoting movement, said locking element extends entirely in one of the receptions, and wherein for uncoupling the pivoting movement, the locking element is displaced into the the receptions of the axle and the pedestal.