Daido Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masahiro Nagae

Shoichi Honda

Nobuyuki Matsui

Hiroshi Fukumoto

There is provided a double-face driving silent chain wherein the size of each inner link plate of an exterior driving link train to a back face thereof is set to be equal to or greater than the size of each link plate of an interior driving link train. Thereby, inner side planes of the back face of the inner link plate abut against the both side planes of an interior driving sprocket and guide and prevent the silent chain from engaging with the sprocket in twist. All the link plates, other than the inner link plates of the exterior driving link train, have the same shape when seen from the side and the outermost link plate of the interior driving link train is thin as compared to the other link plates.

Double-face driving silent chain and silent chain power transmission device using the same

A chain constituted by an endlessly connected link plate groups each consisting of a plural number of link plates with paired pin-receiving holes and successively connected with adjacent link plate groups with the respective link plates intermeshed with the link plates of adjacent groups and with a shift of one pitch from the latter, by means of paired rocker pins inserted in the pin-receiving holes of the intermeshed link plates in back-to-back relation with each other, the rocker pins being formed in an arcuate shape and spaced from each other by a predetermined gap space when the centers of the pin-receiving holes of the intermeshed link plates are brought into alignment with each other. The chain may be assembled in such a manner as to maintain the gap space when the chain is lapped around a rotational drive member and a driven member, or in such a manner that the pin-receiving holes of the preceding and succeeding link plate groups are offset in the direction of the pitch line when the chain is fitted in position.

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Kaga, Japan

Masahiro Nagae