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Title: Structure of cam shaft for engine

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6269103

This patent describes the structure of a cam shaft for an engine having a crankshaft provided with a helical crank gear and a cam shaft provided with a helical cam gear meshing with the crank gear and rotatably supported at both ends thereof by journal bearing boxes, characterized inn that either one of the journal bearing boxes is communicated with a pressure oil supply passage, thereby causing the oil pressure produced within the one journal bearing box to act upon the end face of the cam shaft so that the cam shaft is normally biased in a constant axial direction.

Assignee:
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Patent Number(s):
US 4805565
OSTI ID:
6269103
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 14 Oct 1987
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English