Patent ID: 6877467

Claim:
An internal combustion engine comprising an engine body defining first and second banks together forming a V-shape, a crankshaft extending within the engine body and rotating about a crankshaft axis, first and second camshafts extending within the first bank, third and fourth camshafts extending within the second bank, the first, second, third and fourth camshafts being generally disposed parallel to one another and parallel to the crankshaft, the first and third camshafts being placed next to each other, a first flexible transmitter extending around the crankshaft and the first and third camshafts such that the crankshaft drives the first and third camshafts through the first transmitter, and a second flexible transmitter extending around the second and fourth camshafts and either the first or third camshaft such that the first or third camshaft drives the second and fourth camshafts through the second transmitter, the first and second transmitters being arranged next to each other in a direction extending parallel to the crankshaft axis.