Patent ID: 8689749

Claim:
A valve timing controller controlling a valve timing of a valve opened and closed by a torque transmitted to a camshaft from a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, the valve timing controller comprising: a housing rotating with the crankshaft; a vane rotor rotating with the camshaft and partitioning an interior space of the housing into an advance chamber and a retard chamber in a rotation direction, a rotation phase of the vane rotor relative to the housing being changed in an advance direction or a retard direction by introducing working fluid into the advance chamber or the retard chamber; a control valve disposed in an interlocking rotor constructed by the vane rotor and the camshaft, the control valve having a sleeve in which the working fluid flows and a spool reciprocating in the sleeve in an axial direction, the control valve controlling a flow of the working fluid relative to the advance chamber and the retard chamber based on a reciprocation of the spool in the sleeve; and a linear solenoid driving the spool to reciprocate in the axial direction, the linear solenoid including a coil generating a magnetic flux by being supplied with electricity, a fixed core through which the magnetic flux passes, a movable member integrally having a movable core disposed on an inner circumference side of the fixed core and an output shaft to which the spool is contact, the output shaft reciprocating in the axial direction together with the movable core when the magnetic flux passes through the fixed core and the movable core, and a bearing portion supporting an outer circumference side of the movable member in a manner that the movable member reciprocates and rotates, wherein the output shaft has an end surface that contacts a sphere-shaped end face of the spool, at a contact position offset in a radial direction from a center axis of the spool.