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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2002
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A valve train for an internal combustion engine includes a rocker shaft ( ) provided with an oil passage, first and second rocker arms ( ) having support parts ( ) provided with bores ( ) to receive the rocker shaft ( ) therein so as to be supported on the rocker shaft ( ) for rocking motion, and a rocker arm interlocking mechanism ( ) for selectively engaging or disengaging the first and the second rocker arms ( ). The first rocker arm ( ) is provided with a pressure chamber ( ) holding a piston ( ) therein, a straight connecting passage connected to the pressure chamber ( ) and an oil passage ( )formed in the rocker shaft ( ). An open end surface ( ) of the bore ( ) of a first support wall ( ) of the rocker arm ( ) is on an axially outer side of the pressure chamber ( ). The straight connecting passage ( ) is inclined to the axis of the bore ( ) so that an imaginary passage ( ) on an extension of the connecting passage ( ) extended toward the open end surface ( ) intersects the open end surface ( ). The outermost side surface ( ) of the first support wall ( ) has an inclined section inclined to the axis of the bore ( ) along the connecting passage ( ).