A hydraulic device in an internal combustion engine for adjusting a rotation
angle
of a camshaft in relation to a crankshaft includes a tubular stator and a rotor
connected in fixed rotative engagement with the camshaft and having plural vanes
in spaced apart relationship to define pressure chambers on both sides of the vanes.
The stator is connected in fixed rotative engagement with a crankshaft-drive timing
pulley and formed in single-piece construction with an end wall to thereby exhibit
a pot-shaped structure. The pot is made without material removal from a sheet metal
part and constructed to define with the rotor vanes the pressure chambers. Pressure
medium is supplied to or purged from the pressure chambers to selectively adjust
the position of the rotor in relation to the stator and thereby the position of
the camshaft in relation to the crankshaft.