Volkswagen Ag

Alfred Beier

Dietrich Distler

Panagiotis Adamis

Paul Gnegel

Adamis Panaqiotis

Christian Nesselrath

Helmut Wittke

A control cam or a gear wheel having a plurality of layers of flat material placed one on top of the other. Each of the layers of flat material is of a multi-part form with partition lines that extend in a direction of planes over the layers of material. At least some of the partition lines of neighboring layers of the flat material are offset in relation to one another. The partition line of a layer of flat material is arranged so that in both circumferential directions it lies approximately equally spaced in relation to a partition line of a neighboring layer of flat material.

Member comprising several layers of a flat material and method for making the same

To secure a control element in the axial direction on a shaft member, the control element is pushed onto a region of the shaft member which has a slightly enlarged diameter, displacing shaft material in the process to form a burr on one side of the control element. Then a punch is pushed onto the enlarged diameter region to produce another burr by displacement of shaft material on the other side of the control element which is thus held axially on the shaft member in a positive manner in both directions. The control element is preferably formed from a multiplicity of layers of flat stock.

Control shaft carrying a control element and method for its manufacture

A laminar cam for the control of gas-exchange valves of an internal combustion engine is made of a plurality of punched-out layers of flat stock assembled in adjacent and aligned relation and joined together by a pin and by laser welds.

Laminar cam arrangement

A camshaft arrangement includes a cam mounted for angular motion on a camshaft with the angular motion being limited by cooperating stops in the camshaft and in a neck portion of the cam defining an interchamber filled with damping fluid. Damping fluid is supplied to the interchamber by a passage in a camshaft bearing sleeve which is in communication with a longitudinal passage in the camshaft through a valve designed to prevent the longitudinal passage from draining.

Camshaft arrangement having a cam mounted for limited angular motion

A camshaft arrangement has a series of cams mounted on a camshaft for limited angular motion relative to the camshaft in response to force applied by a closing spring for the associated valve and a series of fixed cams separated by spacer sleeves. All of the cams and spacer sleeves are assembled on the shaft by sliding them on from one end and are retained between stops on the shaft so that they seal recesses in the movable cams which are filled with a damping fluid.

Camshaft arrangement having angularly movable cams

In the embodiment of the invention described in the specification, two inlet valves associated with a cylinder of an internal combustion engine are supplied through two separate inlet lines. One of the inlet valves is supplied with air and fuel at all engine speeds, and the other inlet valve is supplied with supplementary air at higher engine speeds only. The valve opening curves are so chosen that gas return flows are avoided in the case of the gas and air inlet valve, and a scavenging effect is achieved by maintaining the supplementary air inlet valve open for a longer time.

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Braunschweig, Germany

Alfred Beier