Eaton Intelligent Power Limited

Michael James Stanton

James Edward McCarthy, Jr

Robert Philip Benjey

Dale Arden Stretch

Austin Robert Zurface

Anthony Leon Spoor

Brian Karl Vandeusen

Michael J Campbell

Eric Yankovic

Thomas Michael Tembreull

Petr Liskar

Nicholas Peter Gillette

Jiri Cecrle

Tomas Drabek

A valvetrain for an internal combustion engine of the type that has a combustion chamber, a moveable valve having a seat formed in the combustion chamber, and a camshaft includes a rocker arm assembly, a pivot providing a fulcrum for a rocker arm of the rocker arm assembly, and a latch assembly. An electrical device mounted to the rocker arm assembly receives power or communicates through a circuit that includes an electrical connection formed by abutment between surfaces of two distinct parts. The rocker arm assembly is operative to move one of the two abutting surfaces relative to the other in response to actuation of the cam follower. Forming an electrical connection through abutting surfaces that are free to undergo relative motion may reduce or eliminate the need to run wires to a mobile portion of the rocker arm assembly.

Sliding contact for electrically actuated rocker arm

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Hastings, MI, United States of America

Michael James Stanton