Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Masaru Tamura

Masaaki Takizawa

Yoshiyuki Hattori

Kazuma Matsui

Hideyuki Hayakawa

Yasunobu Jufuku

Hiroji Kinbara

Noboru Matsubara

Tooru Kosuda

Hiromi Katou

Tsutomu Hiyoshi

A torque transmission system has driving and driven pulley units around which an endless V-belt extends. Each pulley unit has a stationary pulley part rotatable with a shaft and a movable pulley part disposed to define with the stationary pulley part a circumferentially continuous groove for receiving the V-belt. The movable pulley parts of the pulley units are axially resiliently biased so that the radii of the circle along which the V-belt engages the driving and driven pulley units are varied to change the speed-change ratio of the transmission system. The movable pulley part of the driven pulley unit is axially shifted by the action of fly weights held between a stationary plate fixed to the shaft and a holder fixed to the movable pulley part. One of the holder, movable pulley part and stationary plate is provided with surfaces extending parallel to the axis of the shaft and directed radially inwardly to radially inwardly support the fly weights when they are centrifugally moved to their radially outermost positions whereby the axial thrust force imparted by the radially outward movement of the fly weights to the V-belt is limited.

Torque transmission system

An apparatus for controlling the feed of the oil discharged from an oil pump in an internal combustion engine having an oil pump which feeds lubricating oil to the engine by an oil delivery pipe and which feeds working oil to a hydraulic actuator for controlling valve timings of the engine by a branch pipe connected to the oil delivery pipe, comprising valve means in said oil delivery pipe downstream of the connection between the oil delivery pipe and the branch pipe, which opens in accordance with the delivery pressure of the discharged oil to control the amount of the lubricating oil flowing therethrough.

Apparatus for controlling feed of oil discharged from oil pump

A torque transmission system has driving and driven pulley units around which an endless V-belt extends. Each pulley unit has a stationary pulley part rotatable with a shaft and a movable pulley part disposed to define with the stationary pulley part a circumferentially continuous groove for receiving the V-belt. The movable pulley parts of the pulley units are axially resiliently biased so that the radii of the circle along which the V-belt engages the driving and driven pulley units are varied to change the speed-change ratio of the transmission system. The movable pulley part of the driven pulley unit is axially shifted by the action of fly weights held between a stationary plate fixed to the shaft and a holder fixed to the movable pulley part. A cover is provided to cover the outer end of the movable pulley part, the stationary plate and an adjacent end of the shaft and cooperates with the stationary plate to define therebetween a first space which is communicated through a port in the stationary plate with a second space defined between the stationary plate and the holder. The first space is also communicated with the atmosphere through an axial bore extending axially through the shaft. A third space defined between the stationary and movable pulley parts is communicated with the axial bore through a second communication port formed radially in the shaft, whereby the three spaces are maintained substantially at the atmospheric pressure regardless of changes of the volumes of the spaces due to axial movements of the axially movable members, so that the torque transmission system can be free from any adverse effect which would otherwise be caused by the compression of air in the mentioned spaces.

Power transmission system

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Susono, Japan

Masaru Tamura