Patent ID: 6959676

Claim:
A cam follower provided with a sheet metal rocker arm comprising: a sheet metal rocker arm formed of a metal plate and provided with a pair of side walls substantially parallel to each other, and a connecting portion connecting the side walls to each other; a pivot fixed to bridge over said paired side walls by plastically deforming both end portions of the pivot to the inner peripheral surfaces of a pair of through holes formed at positions aligned with each other on the side walls, bridging the through holes; and a roller supported rotatably around a middle part of the pivot; wherein a gap between the portions provided with said through holes on the paired side walls prior to the plastically deforming of both end portions of said pivot is made wider than a gap between said portions when both end portions of said pivot have been plastically deformed, so as to make said paired side walls parallel to each other when both end portions of the pivot have been plastically deformed.