Patent ID: 7610903

Claim:
A multicylinder internal combustion engine comprising: a cylinder head with engine valves arranged therein; valve actuators for openably operating said engine valves, respectively; a cylinder head cover forming, in combination with said cylinder head, a valve actuator chamber with said valve actuators accommodated therein, at least some of said valve actuators being deactivatable to disable their corresponding cylinders; and a crankshaft, wherein said multicylinder internal combustion engine is a V-shaped internal combustion engine provided with a front bank and rear bank, and the cylinders on opposite ends of the crankshaft are set as full-time operating cylinders, being located in the front bank, and the cylinders in the vicinity of a center of the crankshaft are set as deactivatable cylinders, being located in the rear bank; wherein each of the full-time operating cylinders are connected to a position on the crankshaft further toward the end of the crankshaft than each of the deactivatable cylinders is connected.