Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd

Izumi Takagi

Haruo Kitai

Noboru Yanagiuchi

Masayuki Asazuma

An improved drive clutch device for a V-belt type automatic transmission wherein a stationary sheave is fixed to a driving shaft while a movable sheave opposed to said stationary sheave is slidably mounted on the driving shaft. A swingable cam weight and a roller in engagement with the cam weight are correlatively supported by driving shaft and movable sheave respectively. The movable sheave is caused to slide toward the stationary sheave by centrifugal force caused by rotation of the cam weight, whereby the pulley diameter is varied. The movable sheave is cylindrical in shape and has at one end an opening which is covered by a cover cast integrally with a starter pulley.

V-belt type automatic transmission drive clutch device

An improved drive clutch device for a V-belt type automatic transmission having a stationary sheave fixed to a driving shaft and a movable sheave slidable along the driving shaft and opposed to said stationary sheave, in which a cam weight having a cam surface and acting as a centrifugal weight and a roller in engagement with the cam surface of said cam weight are pivotally supported on said driving shaft and on said movable sheave respectively and said movable sheave is caused to slide toward said stationary sheave by the centrifugal force caused by rotation of said cam weight to vary the pulley diameter.

Drive clutch for the V-belt type automatic transmission

A driven clutch device for V-belt type automatic transmission which has a movable sheave slidably mounted on a driven shaft, a stationary sheave having a cylindrical portion which has one end open, the stationary sheave being secured to the end portion of the driven shaft through a coupling which seals up the open end of the cylindrical portion of the stationary sheave, and which further has a contact part extending along the shaft and from the back of the stationary sheave, a cam bracket having a cam part which contacts the contact part and a torsional spring interposed between the cam bracket and the stationary sheave for connecting them.

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Akashi, Japan

Izumi Takagi