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Article: Michigan, South Carolina Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Valve Train
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 19, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 19 -- Matthew Evans of Warren, Mich., Florin Bugescu of Canton, Mich., and William Dammers of Greenville, S.C., have developed a valve train for an internal combustion engine.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve train for an internal combustion engine is provided, with the valve train having a switchable rocker arm assembly with a plurality of rocker arms for activating at least one gas exchange valve, and also having at least one camshaft with differently contoured cams through which different adjusting displacements can be imparted to individual rocker arms of the rocker arm assembly."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent ...