Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Cvtec Co., Ltd.

Cvtc Co., Ltd

Miyoshi Kakiuchi

Masashi Hattori

Yuji Hattori

Koichi Tanaka

Keisuke Ninomiya

Hideharu Ushida

Masaki Saito

Satoru Ando

Masaki Nakajima

Hirofumi Nozawa

Koji Kato

Katsumori Fujii

Keiichiro Irie

Kazuhiro Hanaki

Shinichiro Yajima

Tomohito Suzuki

Toshiaki Oomori

Koji Fujimoto

Yoshiaki Sato

Yasuhiro Takeuchi

An apparatus configured to make blanks that would be used to assemble a CVT belt formed from such blanks. The CVT is assembled by arrange a body portion of the blanks on an inner periphery, a head portion on an outer periphery, and a neck portion, which connects the head and body. The apparatus has a die that has an opening shape conforming to a planar shape of the element to be formed. An ejector that has a sectional shape conforming to the opening shape of the blanking blade and is located inside the blanking blade. A punch that has a sectional shape conforming to the opening shape of the blanking blade and moves downward into the blanking blade to blank the element together with the blanking blade, and a pusher that is located around the punch and presses the flat plate-like material against the die.

Element blanking apparatus and method

An endless metal belt including a ring formed by laminating endless metal plates; and multiple elements continuously attached to the ring. Each of the elements has a body, a head connected to the body by a pillar, and slots formed between the body and the head on left and right sides of the pillar, respectively, for receiving the ring. The elements satisfy the equations (h/t)&#x3c;1 and (S/h)&#x3e;40, where h is a width of the slots, t is a plate thickness of the elements, and S is an area of the head.

Endless metal belt

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Tahara, Japan

Miyoshi Kakiuchi