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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:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2002
Ulrich Grau, Emskirchen, DE;
INA-Schaeffler KG, , DE;
Abstract
The invention concerns an electrically rotatable shaft, and more particularly, an adjusting shaft ( ) of a fully variable mechanical valve train of an internal combustion engine, said shaft comprising an adjusting cam ( ). The rapid and exact rotation of the adjusting shaft ( ) that is required for the fully variable valve train is achieved by the fact that the valve train comprises an actuator ( ) that comprises an adjusting lever ( ) connected rotationally fast to the adjusting shaft ( ), and the free end of the adjusting lever is articulated through a forked lever ( ) on a screw nut (( ) of a screw-and-nut drive ( ) that is driven by an electromotor ( ).
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