The invention relates to an electric camshaft adjuster for adjusting and
securing the phase angle of a camshaft of an internal combustion engine
with respect to its crankshaft, having a three shaft gearing which is
embodied as a harmonic drive (19, 19') of sleeve design, and a drive
wheel (1) which is fixed to the crankshaft and has a first ring gear (2)
as well as an output component (4) which is fixed to the camshaft and has
a second ring gear (5) arranged next to the first ring gear (2) and an
adjustment shaft (10, 10', 10'', 10''') which can be driven by an
electric adjustment motor, with a wave generator (17, 17', 17'') which
has means for elliptically deforming a flexurally elastic, externally
toothed sleeve (18).A way of improving a harmonic drive of sleeve design
is for the expenditure on the construction of the harmonic drive (19,
19') to be lowered by changes to the wave generator (17, 17', 17''), and
for the axial installation space thereof to be lowered by integrating the
ring gears (2, 5) into the drive wheel (1) and output component (4) which
are pushed axially one into the other.