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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dietmar Lagies, Wolfsburg, DE;
Assignee:
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01L 1/02 ; F02B 7/522 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01L 1/02 ; F02B 7/522 ;
Abstract
A control device for camshaft systems of an internal combustion engine with n banks of cylinders arranged in a V-shaped configuration. The control device has a distribution system with a first distributor gear which intermeshes with an output gear arranged on a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. The distribution system has m<n secondary distributor gears which intermesh with the first distributor gear and transmit a driving force to the n camshaft systems of the n banks of cylinders through n endless-chain drives.