Patent ID: 8671900

Claim:
Device for variably adjusting control times of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine comprising: a drive element, a driven element, and at least one lateral cover, the drive element can be brought into driven connection with a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, the driven element can be brought into a driving connection with a camshaft of the internal combustion engine and is arranged for rotation relative to the drive element, the lateral cover is arranged on an axial lateral face of the driven element or the drive element and is locked in rotation with the drive element or the driven element, a spring element is arranged on a side of the lateral cover facing away from the drive and the driven element, and the lateral cover has a disk-shaped section from which several attachment elements project in an axial direction that are arranged on a side of the lateral cover facing away from the drive element, the disk-shaped section has, on a lateral face facing the spring element, at least one bulge that is opposite at least one spring winding of the spring element in an axial direction of the device.