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US 2003/0125159 A1Published application
Intrinsically safe control system for a variable-ratio transmission
OwnerAntonio Francisco Cesaroniinventor
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A control system for a variable-ratio transmission of the type in which the variation is controlled by displacing two elements of the transmission relative to one another along a displacement axis, and in which these elements can give rise to a thrust having a component along the displacement axis, which component is correlated with the torque transmitted by the transmission, is described. The system includes operative control means interposed between actuator means and at least one of the two transmission elements in order to instigate the displacement upon the operation of the actuator means; resilient means are also interposed between the operative control means and the actuator means and can yield resiliently as a result of the thrust component along the displacement axis when the said component exceeds a predetermined threshold value corresponding to a value of the maximum torque transmitted by the transmission.
A control system for a variable-ratio transmission of the type in which the variation is controlled by displacing two elements of the transmission relative to one another along a displacement axis, and in which the elements can give rise to a thrust having a component along the displacement axis, which component is correlated with the torque transmitted by the transmission, the system including operative control means interposed between actuator means and at least one of the two transmission elements in order to instigate the displacement upon the operation of the actuator means, characterized in that resilient means are interposed between the operative control means and the actuator means and can yield resiliently as a result of the thrust component along the displacement axis when the said component exceeds a predetermined threshold value corresponding to a maximum value of the torque transmitted by the transmission.
A control system according to one or more of the preceding claims in which the operative control means comprise a rod guided in a housing of the springs and the springs are compressed between respective shoulders of the housing and an annular projection of the rod.
A control system according to one or more of the preceding claims in which the displaceable elements comprise a ring gear and a pinion at the output from the transmission.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.