Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.

Ryosuke Dan

Hayato Shimamura

Katsuya Imai

Takashi Morimoto

Tomokazu Ishida

Makoto Haraguchi

An auto-tensioner includes: a base having a cylindrical part; an arm; a pulley around which a belt is to be wound; a friction member sandwiched between an inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical part and the arm; and a coil spring pressing the friction member against the arm in the axial direction and rotationally biasing the arm in one direction with respect to the base, in which the friction member includes: an arcuate surface, a first locking part, locked to the arm, and inclined with respect to the radial direction so as to face the one direction side as the first locking part goes toward an outside in the radial direction, and a second locking part, and the friction member and the arm include a restricting unit which restricts the friction member from moving toward the one direction side with respect to the arm.

Automatic tensioner

A pulley structure may be equipped with an outer rotating body, an inner rotating body, and a coil spring provided between the outer rotating body and the inner rotating body. The coil spring is configured so as to undergo torsional deformation in a diameter-expanding or a diameter-contracting direction, thereby engaging the outer rotating body and the inner rotating body and transmitting torque, and to undergo torsional deformation in the direction opposite the direction in which torque is transmitted, thereby entering a disengaged state in which the coil spring slides with the outer rotating body or the inner rotating body, thus interrupting the transmission of torque. The number of windings of the coil spring is in a range between [M-0.125] and M (both inclusive), where M is a natural number.

Pulley structure

A pulley structure may be equipped with an outer rotating body, an inner rotating body, and a coil spring. The pulley structure has a cross section of the spring wire of the coil spring along a direction running along the rotational axis and parallel to the rotational axis being a trapezoidal shape, and the length of an inner-diameter-side portion in the rotational axis direction in the cross section being greater than the length of an outer-diameter-side portion in the rotational axis direction in the cross section.

A pulley structure includes a cylindrical outer rotation body, an inner rotation body, and a pair of bearings which is disposed between the outer rotation body and the inner rotation body. Of the pair of bearings, one bearing is a sliding bearing, and the other bearing is a rolling bearing. The sliding bearing is made of a thermoplastic resin and is formed into an ended ring shape. A thickness of the sliding bearing at each of both circumferential end portions is smaller than a reference dimension of a thickness of the sliding bearing.

Pulley structure, sliding bearing, and production method for sliding bearing

A pulley structure may include: a tubular outer rotating body having a belt looped thereon; an inner rotating body which is disposed radially inside the outer rotating body and which is rotatable relative to the outer rotating body; and a torsional coil spring which is arranged in a spring accommodating space formed between the outer rotating body and the inner rotating body. At least in a state in which the pulley structure has not been operated even once, grease containing a rust inhibitor is applied to an opposing surface of the inner rotating body opposing an inner peripheral surface of the torsional coil spring.

Pulley structure and method for manufacturing pulley structure

The present invention relates to a pulley structure containing a first rotatable body, a second rotatable body and a torsional coil spring, in which the torsional coil spring has one end region, the outer circumferential surface of which is in contact with one rotatable body due to the self elastic restoring force when the pulley structure is in a stopped state, the other end region, the inner circumferential surface of which is in contact with the other rotatable body when the pulley structure is in the stopped state, and a middle region, and in which when the torsional coil spring is twisted in the diameter increasing direction, the inner circumferential surface of at least a circumferential portion of the other end region of the torsional coil spring separates from the other rotatable body.

An automatic tensioner includes a base, a rotary member to which a pulley around which a belt is wound can be attached, a coil spring including one end locked on the base and the other end locked on the rotary member, an elastic element including one end locked on one of the rotary member and the base and the other end which is a free end and extending along an inner circumferential surface of the other of the rotary member and the base, and a friction member connected so as to be brought into contact with the inner circumferential surface, wherein the coil spring is disposed in such a state that the coil spring is compressed in an axial direction and the friction member is pressed against the one of the rotary member and the base by a repulsive force attempting to expand in an axial direction.

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Hyogo, Japan

Ryosuke Dan