Patent ID: 8875676

Claim:
A roller tappet, comprising a housing having a drive side end on which are arranged two diametrically opposing flats that are pressed in from an outer peripheral surface of the housing, each of said flats comprising a receptacle, a pin carrying a cam roller being mounted in said flats, an inner peripheral surface of the housing, as viewed in a drive distal direction, being penetrated axially below the cam roller by a bridge member, and a driven side end of the bridge member comprising a support for a tappet follower, the outer peripheral surface of the housing, except for the flats, is configured without steps as a closed circumferential ring that, as viewed in a drive direction, extends directly above upper sides of the flats, said upper sides extend with a bowstring-like shape through the housing, said circumferential ring being adjoined by the drive side end, and the receptacles in the flats being configured in form of semi-shell-shaped recesses that start from said upper sides and are in osculating contact with the pin.