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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2001
Katsuyuki Fukuhara, Hyogo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kinugawa, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A valve timing control device has a hydraulic pressure supply passage for supplying a hydraulic pressure used for releasing lock due to the lock member. If a hydraulic pressure applied to the hydraulic pressure supply passage reaches a required pressure, a hydraulic pressure subjected to a major diameter section of the lock member is larger than the sum total of the biasing force of two biasing members. Thus, the lock member is returned in a direction of releasing the lock due to the lock member. The sliding member is moved backward while the lock member is also moved backward. The stroke of the sliding member is extremely shorter than that of the lock pin. With a locked state of leaving the engagement of a minor diameter section of the lock member with an engagement hole, a rear end face of a minor diameter section of the sliding member abuts with a rear wall face of a backward pressure chamber. Thus, it is difficult that a backward pressure space defined between the lock member and the sliding member communicates with a discharge hole. Since the opening area of the discharge hole substantially is throttled, a speed of discharging the backward pressure is considerably delayed.