Patent ID: 8677958

Claim:
A switchable lever for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine, comprising: an elongated housing having two side walls, one end of the housing having a crossbar for a gas-exchange valve system and another end of the housing for a bearing; an axle transverse to and fixed in the housing; an axially fixed low-lift cam roller rotatable on, centrally positioned and concentric with the axle; high-lift cam rollers flanking the axially fixed low-lift cam roller on each side of the axially fixed low-lift cam roller, the high-lift cam rollers being transversely displaceable between a first position and a second position; a first servo device actuatable for positioning the high-lift cam rollers in the first position where the high-lift cam rollers displaced away from each other on the axle; and a second servo device actuatable for positioning the high-lift cam rollers in the second position where the high-lift cam rollers displaced toward each other on the axle.