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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 1991
Filed:
May. 10, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H / ; B25G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
74567 ; 403374 ;
Abstract
A camshaft having a steel shaft and cam pieces made from a sintering iron-base alloy material and fixed to the shaft by sintering. Prior to sintering, the green or pre-sintered cam piece is fitted on the shaft and positioned by a steel positioning pin, which is inserted both into a pin-receiving hole in the shaft and into a pin-receiving groove on the side surface of the cam piece. The positioning pin contains carbon less than the steel shaft. This results in that the carbon diffusion initiates at a predetermined position where the pin and the cam piece are in contact with each other and that the cam piece always shrinks about the position.