Patent ID: 7434555
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: F01L,F02B,F16H

Abstract:
1. A V configuration internal combustion engine comprised of a pair of angularly disposed cylinder blocks each having at least one cylinder bore in which a respective piston is supported for reciprocation, the axes of said cylinder bores intersecting at an axis at one end of said cylinder bores, a crankshaft journalled for rotation about said axis and driven by connecting rods connecting said pistons to said crankshaft, first and second valve operating shafts disposed on opposite sides of a plane containing said axis for operating valves associated with respective ones of said cylinder bores and driven by said crankshaft, at least two poppet valves associated with each cylinder bore disposed on opposite sides of the respective cylinder bore, one of said valve operating shafts drives the cam shafts of one cylinder head and the other of said valve operating shafts drives the cam shafts of the other cylinder head, one of said valve operating shafts is driven directly from said crankshaft and the other of said valve operating shafts is driven by said one operating shaft.