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Title:
VARIABLE VALVE DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2014/073259
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Provided is a variable valve device that is for an internal combustion engine and that can increase engine performance by enabling a large amount of maximum valve lift of an air intake valve while suppressing an excessive amount of lost motion of a lost motion mechanism. The present invention is provided with: air intake-/exhaust-side swing arms (6, 64) that cause the opening/closing motion of air intake valves (3a, 3b) and air exhaust valves (61a, 61b) for cylinders #1 and #2; an air intake-/exhaust-side hydraulic lash adjuster (10a, 10b, 65a, 65b) that comprises the fulcrum of reciprocation of the swing arms; a variable mechanism that continuously varies the amount of valve lift of each air intake valve; and a lost motion mechanism (11) that causes the air intake-/exhaust-side hydraulic lash adjuster at the #1 cylinder side to halt the opening/closing motion of the air intake/exhaust valves by means of lost motion. The maximum valve lift amount of each air intake valve is controlled in a manner so as to be greater than the valve lift amount of the air exhaust valves, and the minimum valve lift amount of each air intake valve is controlled in a manner so as to be less than the valve lift amount of the air exhaust valves.

Inventors:
NAKAMURA MAKOTO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2013/073614
Publication Date:
May 15, 2014
Filing Date:
September 03, 2013
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Assignee:
HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS LTD (JP)
International Classes:
F01L13/00; F01L1/255; F02D13/02
Foreign References:
JP2004316571A2004-11-11
JP2006052737A2006-02-23
JP2009209879A2009-09-17
JP2010127074A2010-06-10
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
KOBAYASHI, Hiromichi et al. (JP)
Hiromichi Kobayashi (JP)
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