Caterpillar Inc.

Michael Joseph Motyl

John Stephen Pipis, Jr

Indrajith Kizhakkethara

Prabhu Nagaraj

Mallikarjuna Masala

Karen E Snelling

Leonard Wade Matheny

John Warren Edenburn

Kelly Brockhouse, Legal Representative

James K Jaszarowski

Ronald Wayne Conklin

A rocker base is disclosed for use with a valve actuation system. The rocker base may have a housing with a top, a bottom, side walls connecting the top to the bottom, and end walls disposed between the side walls. The rocker base may also have rocker arm supports located inside the housing and integrally formed with the side walls, and an injector spring pad extending from one of the end walls toward a center of the housing. The rocker base may further have a rib connecting the injector spring pad to one of the rocker arm supports.

Rocker base for valve actuation system

A gray cast iron alloy is disclosed. The gray cast iron alloy includes carbon from about 3.05 to about 3.40 weight percent, niobium from about 0.05 to about 0.3 weight percent, and silicon from about 1.75 to about 2.3 weight percent. The gray cast iron alloy also includes nickel less than or equal to about 0.06 weight percent.

High strength gray cast iron

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Dunlap, IL, United States of America

Michael Joseph Motyl