Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.

Toshiaki Aragane

Koji Kitahama

Takashi Masuda

Takehiko Ito

Syunichi Imahigashi

Hiroshi Takano

Masayuki Tanaka

Yasutsugu Kunihiro

Tomizo Kanaoka

Katsuji Tsuji

Katsuyuki Hioki

Hideyuki Akao

A power transmission belt having an endless body with a length, an inside, and an outside. The body has cogs on at least one of the inside and outside of the body and spaced along the length of the body so as to define alternating cog crests and cog troughs. The cog crests each have oppositely facing side surfaces with an apex between the oppositely facing side surfaces. There is a reinforcing fabric on the at least one of the inside and outside of the body. The reinforcing fabric has first and second spaced end portions with a first free end at the first end portion and a second free end at the second end portion. The first and second end portions overlap so that the first and second free ends are each at a side surface on a cog crest.

Power transmission belt and a method of forming a power transmission belt

Power transmission belt

A force transmission belt having a plurality of block bodies each with laterally spaced pulley-engaging surfaces, an endless band to be trained about a pair of pulleys, cooperating structure on the endless band and the block bodies for maintaining the block bodies in an operative position on the endless band with the block bodies slidable lengthwise of the endless band and positioned so that the laterally spaced pulley-engaging surfaces frictionally engage a pulley about which the endless band is trained, and channel structure in at least one of the block bodies for guiding lubricant from a point between adjacent, engaged block bodies and the endless band to a location outside of the one block body to minimize wear between the adjacent block bodies during operation.

High load force transmission belt

A belt-type continuously variable transmission consisting of: an input/drive shaft with a rotational axis; an output/driven shaft with a rotational axis; a first variable speed pulley on the input/drive shaft and having a first pulley part fixed against axial movement relative to the input/drive shaft and a second pulley part movable axially relative to the first pulley part, with the first and second pulley parts cooperatively defining a belt-receiving groove; a second variable-speed pulley on the output/driven shaft and having a third pulley part fixed against axial movement relative to the output/driven shaft and a fourth pulley part movable axially relative to the third pulley part, with the third and fourth pulley parts cooperatively defining a belt-receiving groove; a fluid cylinder; structure for shifting the second pulley part axially relative to the first pulley part in response to a change in pressure in the fluid cylinder; a fluid reservoir on the first variable-speed pulley for rotation with the input/drive shaft; structure for sensing the rotational speed of the fluid in the fluid reservoir as the input/drive shaft is operated; and structure for communicating the sensing structure with the fluid cylinder to establish an equilibrium therebetween and to thereby vary the fluid pressure in the fluid cylinder as an incident of a change in the rotational velocity of the input/drive shaft and the fluid in the fluid reservoir.

Belt-type continuously variable transmission with variable-speed pulley

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Aichi, Japan

Toshiaki Aragane