Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Kazumi Kawai

Kyoichi Mishima

Hideo Hirai

Tsuneo Shaura

Takahide Mizuno

Takaji Nagai

Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Eiichi Takami

Kuniharu Uto

Toshimi Kumasaki

Tadashi Yamaguchi

Mitsunobu Higashi

Motonobu Yasuhuku

A toothed belt power transmission system having a belt tooth configuration and pulley groove configuration providing for clearances between the belt tooth root and pulley groove outer surface, and between the belt tooth tip surface and pulley groove inner surface. A power transmitting surface on a midportion of the tooth has facial engagement with a confronting sidewall surface at the midportion of the pulley groove side surface. Locations of the centers of the different arcuate surfaces of the pulley tooth and belt groove for providing the extended life, low noise operation of the drive are disclosed. A number of different constructions embodying the invention are disclosed.

Power transmission belt and drive

A power transmission toothed belt drive having a belt tooth power transmission surface defined by an arc having a radius centered on a point approximately one-half the belt tooth pitch from the centerline of the tooth. The pulley groove has a sidewall surface which confronts the power transmission surface of the belt tooth centered on the same point when the belt tooth is fully meshed with the pulley groove in the operation of the drive. A relatively small clearance with the pulley is provided adjacent the belt tooth root and a relatively large clearance is provided between the pulley groove inner surface and the tip surface of the belt tooth. In one form of the invention, both the power transmission surface and tip surface of the belt tooth are defined by a single radius and the confronting pulley groove sidewall surface and inner surface confronting the belt tooth power transmission surface and tip surface have a constant clearance therewith and are defined by continuous circular arcs.

Power transmission toothed belt and drive

A belt drive having a belt provided with longitudinally spaced teeth arranged to have a preselected clearance between the side flanks thereof and the side flanks of pulley teeth with which the belt teeth are meshed in a driving operation. The clearance is caused to be a maximum at the belt tooth tips and decrease to a minimum or zero at the belt tooth roots. Different belt tooth side flank curvatures are disclosed wherein the curvatures are centered on axes located at different locations relative to the belt body. The locations of the pulley tooth flank curvature axes are related to the positions of the belt tooth flank curvature axes and a number of different relative positions thereof are disclosed.

Toothed drive belt

An antistatic driving belt having a durable destaticizing function and long surface life. A cushion rubber layer is disposed between a tension rubber layer and a compression rubber layer, and tension members are buried in the cushion rubber layer. A layer of conductive rubber blended with conductive material and having a high abrasion resistance is arranged on the underside of the cushion rubber layer. The ends of the layer of conductive rubber are exposed on both sides of the belt. Preferably, the conductive rubber layer is formed of rubber containing 5 to 50 parts by weight of conductive material to 100 parts by weight of rubber. The conductive rubber layer should be 0.1 mm or thicker, and should have a thickness less than half the total thickness of the compression layer.

Antistatic driving belt

A timing belt having an outer section defined by cogged ribs defining a preselected controlled coefficient of friction obtained by providing controlled size grooves extending transversely through the ribs. The ratio of the effective side area of the grooves to the side area of the cogs defined in the ribs by the grooves, in the illustrated embodiment, is in the range of approximately 1/2 to 21/2 where the coefficient of the rib material is approximately 0.35. The cogs are raw edged and provided with a cover fabric. The provision of the cogged ribs permits the belt to be used as a double timing belt as well as providing improved functioning with backside rib pulleys. The effective coefficient of friction obtained by reducing the side area of the ribs as a result of the provision of the grooves is preferably in the range of 0.15 to approximately 0.90. The total area of all of the side faces of the cogs and effective side areas of the grooves is approximately equal to the height of the outer section defined by the cogs and grooves multiplied by the length of the belt.

Timing belt with controlled friction backside ribs

A method of making a ribbed belt having a plurality of longitudinally extending ribs is provided, wherein a vulcanized belt sleeve is put into one mandrel or said belt sleeve laid over two mandrels and cut with a milling attachment combining multiple double angle milling cutters in such a manner that the rotation of the milling attachment is opposed to that of the mandrel and the revolution speed of the milling attachment is greater than that of the mandrel, thus precisely defining a ribbed section of the belt in a simultaneous manner.

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Kobe, Japan

Hiroyuki Tanaka