Claims
- 1. A valve train of an internal combustion engine with the components tappet (1), cylinder head (7) and cams (9) of a camshaft (10) having the following features:
- the tappet (1) is installed for longitudinal displacement by an outer peripheral surface (5) of its hollow cylindrical skirt (2) in a reception bore (6) of the cylinder head (7) and is loaded by at least one of the cams (9) of the camshaft (10) in the region of a top surface (8) of its disc-shaped bottom (4);
- in its interior (11), tappet (1) has a hydraulic clearance compensation element (13) which cooperates through its pressure piston (14) at least indirectly with at least one gas exchange valve, an annular element (16) which is spaced from the bottom (4) and surrounds the clearance compensation element (13) being arranged in the interior (11) and serving to form an annular oil reservoir (17) which extends towards the bottom (4);
- at least one through-aperture (19) having an inlet (24) for supplying hydraulic medium to the reservoir (17) is arranged in a direct bottom region of the skirt (2) closely adjacent to the bottom (4), which aperture (19) can be fed with hydraulic medium from a supply gallery (21) arranged in the cylinder head (17), and an end (20) of the supply gallery (21) is situated lower and farther away from the bottom than the aperture (19) of the skirt (2) during a base circle phase of the cam (9);
- in the outer peripheral surface (5) of the skirt (2), there is arranged an ascending groove (28) which communicates with the aperture (19) of the skirt (2) and whose lower end (29) intersects the end (20) of the supply gallery (21);
- wherein the aperture (19) can be fed from the end (20) of the supply gallery (21) only in the base circle phase of the cam (9), and, as seen in a side view of the tappet (1), the ascending groove (28) extends at a slant or substantially in an L-shape;
- the outer peripheral surface (5) of the skirt (2) has a completely smooth cylindrical shape except for a sparing for an anti-rotation device (22), which is made as a cylindrical body such as a roller needle, and the ascending groove (28);
- the anti-rotation device (22) projecting radially beyond the skirt (2) extends in the sparing; and
- the oil reservoir (17) is defined only by an undersurface (4a) of the bottom (4), an inner peripheral surface (15) of the skirt (2), the annular element (16) and an outer peripheral surface (18) of the clearance compensation element (13).
- 2. A valve train of claim 1, characterized in that, as seen in the direction along the camshaft axis, the bottom (4) of the tappet (1) is cylindrical in shape.
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PRIOR APPLICATIONS
This application is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/117,548 filed Sep. 11, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,032,631 which is a 371 of PCT/EP96/05134 filed Nov. 21, 1996.
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