Patent ID: 7832369

Claim:
Device for modifying the control times of gas-exchange valves of an internal combustion engine comprising a drive wheel in driven connection with a crankshaft and a swashplate gear mechanism, which has at least one housing, a swashplate, and a driven element in driving connection with a camshaft, the housing and the driven element define a ring-shaped hollow space, in which the swashplate is arranged and at least one of the drive wheel or the housing is supported on a radial bearing which comprises a slide bearing so that it can rotate relative to the driven element via the slide bearing, a first radial bearing surface is formed on an outer casing surface of the driven element and a second radial bearing surface is formed on an inner casing surface of the housing or the drive wheel, and lubricant is fed from a region of the ring-shaped hollow space to the slide bearing through at least one lubricant channel formed as a bore in the driven element that connects the ring-shaped hollow space to the second radial bearing surface.