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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
Tetsuya Nakayasu, Saitama, JP;
Mikio Sagara, Saitama, JP;
Kyo Takahashi, Saitama, JP;
Noritoshi Iwase, Saitama, JP;
Hajime Yamada, Saitama, JP;
Atsushi Murakami, Saitama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an exhaust control valve having a valve housing and a valve body rotatably contained in the valve housing, a transmission member is fitted to an outer end of the valve shaft and protrudes from the outside of the valve housing. A bearing bushing for rotatably bearing an external circumferential surface of the valve shaft by its internal circumferential surface and rotatably bearing an end face of the valve body by its end face is mounted in the valve housing. The valve body is urged by load from a thrust spring for achieving a pressure contact seal condition between the opposed end faces of the bearing bush and the valve body.