Patent ID: 7823554
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: F01L

Abstract:
1. Device for adjusting an angle of rotation between first and second rotating shafts, the first shaft being a drive shaft and the second shaft being a camshaft of an internal combustion engine, the device comprising a rotation element, which is locked in rotation with the drive shaft, a rotor, which is locked in rotation with the camshaft, a device for adjusting the angle of rotation, and a locking device, which has at least one locking bolt mounted movably in one of the rotation element or the rotor and at least one corresponding opening in the other of the rotation element or the rotor, wherein the locking bolt can be displaced into and out of the opening by spring force or hydraulic force, and a contact region of the locking bolt coming into active connection with the opening has an outwardly curved contour wherein the contact region of the locking bolt has a spherical barrel-shaped contour.