US4940450A
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Power transmission system using toothed belt of engine for vehicle
Assignee: Mitsubishi Motors Corp
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Filing: 1988-06-13
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Granted: 1990-07-10
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Expires: 2008-06-13
Abstract
Abstract A power transmission system transmits rotative power from a driver pulley to a driven pulley through a toothed belt. The tooth tips (27b) and/or tooth bottoms (27c) of teeth of at least the driven pulley (10) lie in a plane including a central axis l 2 of rotation of the driven pulley and are inclined with respect to the central axis l 2 . When the toothed belt (14) is operated to transmit the rotative power, the position where teeth of the pulley (10) and teeth of the toothed belt (14) start meshing with each other is progressively displaced, thus lowering the level of impact sounds produced when the teeth mesh with each other.
Inventors
- 👤 Noriyuki Miyamura
- 👤 Seizo Iwasa
- 👤 Hiroshi Asano
- 👤 Isamu Nagai
- 👤 Hayato Hamada
- 👤 Shuji Sasaki
- 👤 Takeshi Kinoshita
- 👤 Masaru Sui
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 09:57
CPC Classifications
F; F16; F16H; F16H7/00; F16H7/02; F16H7/023; F01; F01L; F01L1/00; F01L1/02; F01L1/024; F02; F02B; F02B67/00; F02B67/04; F02B67/06; F16H55/00; F16H55/02; F16H55/30; F01L1/04; F01L1/047; F01L1/053; F01L2001/0535; F02B2275/00; F02B2275/06; F02B2275/20
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim
222 words
A power transmission system using toothed belt of engine for vehicle comprising: (a) a toothed drive pulley mounted on a drive shaft of an engine, having tooth tips lying in a plane in parallel with a rotational axis of said drive pulley; (b) a toothed driven pulley mounted on a drive shaft, having tooth tips tapered so that the diameter of said driven pulley at one axial end thereof is larger than the diameter thereof at the other axial end thereof, and a guide disposed at said one axial end of said toothed driven pulley and having a diameter larger than any diameter of said toothed driven pulley, wherein cross-sectional profiles of said tapered tooth tips of said driven pulley are the same at opposite axial ends of said tooth tips as seen in a plane perpendicular to said driven shaft; (c) a toothed belt trained around said toothed drive pulley and said toothed driven pulley, said toothed belt having teeth lying in plane parallel to the width of said belt, whereby when said toothed belt is rotated by the drive force of said drive shaft, said toothed belt sequentially meshes with said toothed driven pulley from the larger diameter portion thereof to the smaller diameter portion thereof, thereby transmitting the drive force of said drive shaft to said toothed driven pulley.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
222 words
A power transmission system using toothed belt of engine for vehicle comprising: (a) a toothed drive pulley mounted on a drive shaft of an engine, having tooth tips lying in a plane in parallel with a rotational axis of said drive pulley; (b) a toothed driven pulley mounted on a drive shaft, having tooth tips tapered so that the diameter of said driven pulley at one axial end thereof is larger than the diameter thereof at the other axial end thereof, and a guide disposed at said one axial end of said toothed driven pulley and having a diameter larger than any diameter of said toothed driven pulley, wherein cross-sectional profiles of said tapered tooth tips of said driven pulley are the same at opposite axial ends of said tooth tips as seen in a plane perpendicular to said driven shaft; (c) a toothed belt trained around said toothed drive pulley and said toothed driven pulley, said toothed belt having teeth lying in plane parallel to the width of said belt, whereby when said toothed belt is rotated by the drive force of said drive shaft, said toothed belt sequentially meshes with said toothed driven pulley from the larger diameter portion thereof to the smaller diameter portion thereof, thereby transmitting the drive force of said drive shaft to said toothed driven pulley.
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