Patents Represented by Attorney Knobbe, Martens, Olsson & Bear, LLP.
  • Patent number: 7069890
    Abstract: A valve train device for an engine is adapted to pivot a rocker arm supported on a rocker arm support shaft to drive a valve which opens and closes a valve opening formed in a combustion chamber. The device comprises a valve drive device and a swing member pivotally supported on a swing member support shaft and driven to pivot about the swing member support shaft by the valve drive device. An intermediate rocker member is pivotally supported on the rocker arm support shaft. The intermediate rocker member is provided between a swing cam surface formed on the swing member and a rocker face formed on the rocker arm, for transmitting the movement of the swing cam surface generated by the valve drive device to the rocker face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Fujita, Koichi Hatamura
  • Patent number: D550210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Diver Entertainment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rany Polany, Carl Wilhelm Pettersen, Kari Kristian Rauhala, Stephanie Ann Griffin, Jim Abelardo Pena