Patent ID: 6901894

Claim:
A finger lever of a valve train of an internal combustion engine, said finger lever being switchable to different valve lifts for at least one gas exchange valve and comprising an outer lever having two arms between which an inner lever is arranged for pivoting relative to the outer lever, which outer and inner levers can be coupled to each other by a coupling means, the outer lever comprising on one closed end a support for a gas exchange valve and the finger lever comprising on an opposite end, a complementary surface for a support element, the inner lever having a fulcrum in a region of the opposite end, the complementary surface for the support element is arranged on the outer lever and is configured as one of a cup-shaped recess and a cylindrical recess, and an upper side of said recess comprises a semi-shell-shaped support on which the inner lever is supported through the fulcrum thereof, and at least this inner lever comprising a contact surface for a cam, wherein the outer lever has a substantially open fork-like configuration, the contact surface for the cam on the inner lever is configured as a rotatable roller and the coupling means comprises at least one slide that extends crosswise to a longitudinal direction of the finger lever, an axial line of the at least one slide coincides with an axial line of the roller, and the fulcrum of the inner lever is situated at least approximately at a same point on a length of the finger lever as a fulcrum of the outer lever in a region of the complementary surface of the finger lever.