Patent ID: 7721695

Claim:
A connecting element for a cam follower, which serves for actuating a gas-exchange valve of an internal combustion engine, on a support element which has a spherical end which merges in a stepless fashion or without an undercut from a cylindrical section and on which the cam follower is mounted, by means of a spherical-cap-shaped formation, so as to be pivotably movable in the direction of the gas-exchange valve about a centre of rotation, with the connecting element engaging around the cylindrical section with elastically deformable projections, which proceed from central webs, parallel to the pivot axis of the cam follower in a way that the connecting element is connected to the cylindrical section merely in a frictionally-engaging manner, wherein the elastically deformable projections are embodied as lugs which are angled away from the central webs and which extend in a direction pointing away from the cam follower, so that, the elastically deformable projections are elastic in shape.