Bi-directional control groove design for engine rotation reversal on engine with sliding camshaft

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9217340
APP PUB NO 20150233272A1
SERIAL NO

14310596

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A camshaft assembly includes a camshaft rotatable about a cam axis, and a lobe pack slideably attached to the camshaft. The lobe pack includes a barrel cam that defines a control groove disposed annularly about the cam axis. When the camshaft and the lobe pack rotate about the cam axis in a first rotational direction, the control groove is shaped to react against either a first or second shifting pin, to guide the lobe pack along a first or third path respectively, into a first or second axial position respectively. When the camshaft and the lobe pack rotate about the cam axis in a second rotational direction, the control groove is shaped to react against the first and second shifting pins to guide the lobe pack along a second path, into the second axial position.

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GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC300 RENAISSANCE CENTER MAIL CODE 482-C23-B21 P O BOX 300 DETROIT MI 48265

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Certo, Domenic Niagra Falls, CA 8 13
Moon, Joseph J Clawson, US 26 159

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