Patent ID: 7918200

Claim:
A rocker arm made of thin-walled sheet steel for pivotable, suspended arrangement under a girder carrier of a valve train of an internal combustion engine, said rocker arm comprising two side walls that, together with a crossbar which connects the side walls, form a substantially inverted U-shaped profile, a support for a gas exchange valve being arranged on one end of an underside of the crossbar, inner surfaces of the side walls forming guide sections, an upper side of the crossbar in a region of the support being stamped toward the underside, so that an M-like cross-section comprising a longitudinal channel on the upper side is formed, the rocker arm merging at another, fork-shaped open end ( 11 ) into an angularly bent region that is bent toward the underside, and a roller forming a cam contacting surface arranged in the angularly bent region wherein the crossbar has a substantially smooth-faced, closed configuration extending from the one end up to the angularly bent region on the other end.