Patent ID: 8166938

Claim:
An engine comprising: an engine cylinder head; first and second camshafts mounted to the engine cylinder head and rotatable about axes of rotation extending in a longitudinal direction; first and second hydraulically-actuated camshaft phaser assemblies mounted to the first and second camshafts, respectively; a camshaft cover at least partially covering the first and second camshafts and the first and second hydraulically-actuated camshaft phaser assemblies and connected to the cylinder head; first and second oil control valves mounted to the camshaft cover and operable to control the first and the second camshaft phaser assemblies, respectively; wherein the camshaft cover defines a feed passage in communication with the first and second oil control valves and with the cylinder head and that directs pressurized fluid from the cylinder head to the first and second oil control valves for control of the first and second hydraulically-actuated camshaft phaser assemblies; and wherein the feed passage is in communication with the cylinder head laterally outward of the camshafts in a transverse direction substantially nonparallel to the longitudinal direction of the axes of rotation of the camshafts.