Low mass direct acting hydraulic valve lifter
CA 2094993 A1 · Owner: Donoghue, Richard Kenneth · Inventors: Gauthier, Daniel George; Warden, Michael Jon; Deangelis, Gary John
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Abstract of the Disclosure, A direct acting hydraulic valve lifter features in a preferred embodiment a follower assembled with a thin wall metal shell and a light plastic baffle to support a lash adjusting hydraulic element assembly. An inlet riser chamber has sufficient cross section to minimize oil flow restriction in cold oil conditions. Dead space between the shell and baffle is filled with a strong lightweight foam to support and retain the baffle and displace oil for low mass.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed April 27, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 27, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 27, 2015.
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