Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Biermzan, Muserlian and Lucas
  • Patent number: 6170447
    Abstract: An internal sealing of a vane-type adjusting device comprising a drive pinion (2) connected to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine by a toothed belt or a timing chain and has a hollow space (9) into which a winged wheel (13) is inserted and rotationally fixed to a camshaft of an internal combustion engine, the drive pinion (2) comprising on the inner surface of its circumferential wall (3) at least one working chamber (5), and the wings of the winged wheel (13) divide each working chamber (5) into two pressure chambers (10, 11) and to avoid pressure medium leakage between the pressure chambers (10, 11) of each working chamber (5) and between the individual working chambers (5), each wing of the winged wheel (13) is configured as a separate wing segment (18) which is displaceable within a guide (15) in the winged wheel (13) and is sealed leak-tight radially by the radial centrifugal force which results from the rotation of the vane-type adjusting device (1) during engine operation, and axially by at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Ina Schaeffler oHG
    Inventors: Mike Kohrs, Jochen Auchter, Jens Schafer