US Patent Issued to DAIMLER TRUCK on April 15 for "Valve train for an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, and internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,213, issued on April 15, was assigned to DAIMLER TRUCK AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Valve train for an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, and internal combustion engine" was invented by Matthias Lahr (Schwabisch Gmund, Germany) and Patrick Rohde (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a valve train (10) for an internal combustion engine, having a first rocker arm (32) which is mounted on a rocker shaft (30) so as to be pivotable around a pivot axis (44) in relation to the rocker shaft (30), having a first gas exchange valve (18) which can be actuated by pivoting...