Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kiyoomi Sato

Kiyohito Murata

Fumihiro Ushijima

Yasunobu Jufuku

Susumu Okawa

Yudai Tatara

A drive mechanism of the limited slip type having driving and driven members to be drivingly connected, wherein a friction clutch is operatively associated with the driving and driven members to drivingly connect the members in its engaged condition, and a fluid pump is arranged between the driving and driven members to be driven by relative rotation therebetween and located adjacent one side of the clutch, the fluid pump being movable in a direction to effect engagement of the clutch when applied at one side thereof with a discharge pressure thereof, and wherein a communication passage for fluid circulation is connected at one end thereof to a discharge port of the pump and at the other end thereof to a suction port of the pump, and a flow control valve is disposed in the communication passage to control an amount of fluid under pressure passing through the communication passage.

Drive mechanism in part-time four-wheel drive vehicle

A pair of pulleys for a belt-and-pulley type continuously variable transmission wherein the pulleys are connected by a transmission belt such that the belt is partially in contact with contact surfaces of the pulleys. At least one of the pair of pulleys has a contact surface which has a plurality of raised and recessed portions that are spaced apart from each other at irregular angular intervals in a circumferential direction of the pulley.

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Kiyoomi Sato