Aisin Corporation

Hajime Sano

Tomoharu Otake

Hiroki Mukaide

Kenji Ikeda

Kenta Koide

Hideomi Iyanaga

An Oldham coupling includes an engagement arm. At least either a driving-side rotor or an input gear has an engagement portion engaged with the engagement arm and is connected to the Oldham coupling. The engagement arm has a pair of arm flat surface portions perpendicular to a rotational direction of the driving-side rotor. The engagement portion has a pair of engagement flat surface portions that the arm flat surface portions face in a sliding contact manner. Each arm flat surface portion is, within a range where the arm flat surface portion slides against a facing engagement flat surface portion, always in contact with an overlapping portion of the engagement flat surface portion with the arm flat surface portion when viewed from a direction perpendicular to a sliding direction of the Oldham coupling and in which the arm flat surface portion and the engagement flat surface portion overlap each other.

Valve opening-closing timing control apparatus

A valve opening-closing timing control apparatus includes a phase adjustment mechanism. The phase adjustment mechanism includes an input gear and an elastic member that applies biasing force to the input gear in such a way that the input gear meshes with an output gear. An eccentric member includes one first concave portion along a circumferential direction thereof, being formed on an outer circumferential surface. The elastic member includes a supported portion supported by the first concave portion, and a curved portion and a biasing piece portion that generate biasing force. The elastic member is supported by the first concave portion at two different boundaries in the circumferential direction.

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Kariya, Japan

Hajime Sano