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Patent Inventor Names
Jeff Hewitt0
Thomas Ullein0
Bolko Schuseil0
Date of Patent
May 22, 2007
0Patent Application Number
103108990
Date Filed
December 5, 2002
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
In a chain drive for an internal combustion engine, said chain drive comprising a driving wheel (2), a driven wheel (3), an endlessly circulating chain (1) that connects the driving wheel (2) and the driven wheel (3), a chain tensioner (9) acting on the slack strand (7) of the chain (1), and an additional tensioning device (12) that is loaded by a spring (13) and acts on the tight strand (6) of the chain (1) while being arranged for pivoting, a further driven wheel (4) is installed in the tight strand (6) of the chain drive and is used as a driving wheel for a rotatably mounted compensating shaft for offsetting free forces and moments that occur during operation of the internal combustion engine.
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