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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2013
Applicant:
Jtekt Corporation, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
JTEKT CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16G 13/02 (2006.01); F16G 5/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16G 13/02 (2013.01); F16G 5/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
Adjacent chain elements transmit a tension by allowing two pins to contact each other. When a chain which has been in a linear state starts to bend, a contact point moves from one point to another. Such movement of the contact point generates a force couple. This force couple causes the rear end of the chain element to move in a lifted manner. An increasing rate of this amount of movement with respect to a relative angle to an adjacent chain element is set such that the increasing rate is small when the relative angle is small, and becomes larger when the relative angle becomes larger.