US Patent Issued to DAIMLER TRUCK on Aug. 4 for "Valve bridge for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle, and internal combustion engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,731, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DAIMLER TRUCK AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Valve bridge for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle, and internal combustion engine" was invented by Patrick Rohde (Esslingen, Germany), Matthias Lahr (Schwabisch Gmund, Germany) and Andreas Ruess (Leutenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to a valve bridge (42) for a valve train (10) of an internal combustion engine, having a bridge actuation area (44), via which the valve bridge (42) can be actuated by means of a first rocker lever (32) of the valve train (10) and can...