Patent ID: 8006662

Claim:
An inner lever for a switchable cam follower of a valve train of an internal combustion engine, which can be arranged so that it can pivot relative to an outer lever in a longitudinal recess of the outer lever, the inner lever comprising a main part with two opposing, upright, thin-walled lateral walls, which are connected at a first end by an upright, thin-walled transverse bar, which includes a driver surface thereon for a coupling slide that can be driven longitudinally by the outer lever, and opposite from the first end the opposing, upright, thin-walled lateral walls have two strongly crimped together, upright, thin-walled arms, which extend in a direction toward a second end of the inner lever, opposite the first end, and form upright, thin-walled longitudinal bars with aligned openings for a shaft for the pivoting connection to the outer lever, the upright, thin-walled longitudinal bars contact each other at inner sides thereof, a cam contact surface is located between the opposing, upright, thin-walled lateral walls, and the inner lever made from steel sheet metal is formed using punch-bending techniques.