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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2000
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A laminated ring is manufactured by severing a cylindrical drum, which comprises a sheet of maraging steel with welded opposite ends, into a plurality of rings of predetermined width, rolling the rings to a predetermined target circumferential length, correcting circumferential lengths of the rings, aging and nitriding the rings, and laminating the rings into a laminated ring for transmitting power in a continuously variable transmission. A load applied to a circumferential edge of each of the rolled rings and a load applied to another circumferential edge thereof are measured while supporting an inner circumferential surface of the ring and applying a tensile load in a direction to expand the ring. The difference between circumferential lengths of the circumferential edges of the ring is detected based on the difference between the loads applied to the circumferential edges when the difference between the loads is maximum.