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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2008
Bodo Rörig, Weisendorf, DE;
Bodo Rörig, Weisendorf, DE;
Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Abstract
An inner lever () for a switchable finger lever () of a valve train of an internal combustion engine is provided, having a box-like main part () with two lateral walls (), which are connected at a first end () by a transverse bar (), which intrinsically includes a driver surface () for a coupling slide that can be guided longitudinally by the outer lever (), and opposite from the first end (), the lateral walls () have two strongly crimped together, thin-walled arms (), which each extend in the direction toward the second end () of the inner lever () to form a longitudinal bar (). The arms contact each other with their inner sides (), and between the lateral walls (), a cam contact surface () can be provided. The inner lever () made from thin-walled steel sheet metal at least to a large extent using punch-bending techniques.