US Patent 7284515 Variable valve apparatus of internal combustion engine

In a variable valve apparatus according to the present invention, a direction of a maximum load generated during valve lift at an oscillating fulcrum of a transmission arm with respect to a control shaft and a rotating direction when the control shaft is varied from the valve lift side to the low-valve lift side are set in the same direction. Consequently, the control shaft is made to easily oscillate in the direction from the high valve lift side to the low valve lift side.