Patent ID: 6935292
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: F01L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A camshaft for an engine having cylinder head bolts, comprising a tube ( 1 ) onto which separately produced cams and/or bearings are positioned and fastened along the tube axis ( 4 ), the tube ( 1 ) having on a part of the circumference of the tube, a single external indentation ( 2 ) pressed transversely to the tube axis into inner and outer surfaces of a wall thickness of the tube at each axial location along the tube axis and not encircling the tube, the indentation being disposed along the tube ( 1 ) and beside the cams and/or bearings with no part of the indentation being covered by the cams and/or bearings and the indentation being sufficiently deep to allow access to the cylinder head bolts of the engine.