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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
May. 01, 1997
Dieter Schmidt, Nurnberg, DE;
Gunter Eisenhardt, Neuhaus, DE;
Norbert Geheeb, Bamberg, DE;
Peter Sailer, Erlangen, DE;
Helmut Engelhardt, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Wolfgang Mayer, Seukendorf, DE;
INA Walzlager Schaeffler KG, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Abstract
A device for securing an actuating lever, e.g. a finger lever, of a valve control mechanism of an internal combustion engine to a support element, with the actuating lever being formed with a concave recess receiving a spherical end of the support element for allowing the actuating lever to pivot relative to the support element includes a connecting element received in an undercut of a displaceable piston of the support element and having a thickness which is smaller than a width of the undercut to effect a free movement of the connecting element within the undercut in all pivoted positions of the actuating lever.