Stepless transmission
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorYuji Nishimura
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Abstract
A one-way clutch 17 in a stepless transmission 1 locks a swing link 18 to an output shaft 3 when a swing end 18a moves away from an input shaft 2. The distance Lcon between an input-side fulcrum P3 and an output-side fulcrum P5 satisfies the following conditional expression: Lcon<√(Lp2+R12−R22) where Lp is the distance between the rotational center axis P1 of the input shaft and the rotational center axis P4 of the output shaft, R1 is the distance between the rotational center axis P1 of the input shaft and the input-side fulcrum P3 when the amount of eccentricity of a rotational radius adjusting mechanism 4 is a predetermined value, and R2 is the distance between the rotational center axis P4 of the output shaft and the output-side fulcrum P5.
Claims4
1-4. (canceled)
A stepless transmission comprising:
- an input shaft to which a drive force of a drive source is transmitted;
- an output shaft disposed in parallel with the input shaft;
- a lever crank mechanism that includes:
- a rotational radius adjusting mechanism rotatable about the input shaft and having an adjustable rotational radius;
- a swing link pivotally supported by the output shaft;
- and a connecting rod connecting the rotational radius adjusting mechanism and the swing link, and that converts rotational motion of the input shaft into swing motion of a swing end of the swing link;
- and
- a one-way rotation blocking mechanism that locks the swing link to the output shaft when the swing link rotates about the output shaft so that the swing end moves away from the input shaft, and lets the swing link idle with respect to the output shaft when the swing link rotates so that the swing end moves toward the input shaft,
- wherein a distance Lcon between an input-side fulcrum and an output-side fulcrum is set so that an angle between a straight line passing through the input-side fulcrum and the output-side fulcrum and a straight line passing through a rotational center axis of the output shaft and the output-side fulcrum is a right angle at a time at which a torque accumulated in the output shaft when the swing link swings with a predetermined amount of eccentricity reaches a maximum, the input-side fulcrum being a connecting point between the rotational radius adjusting mechanism and the connecting rod, and the output-side fulcrum being a connecting point between the swing end and the connecting rod, and
- wherein the distance Lcon satisfies the following conditional expressions
- Lcon<√(Lp2+R12−R22)
- √(Lp2−R22)−R1≦Lcon
- where Lp is a distance between a rotational center axis of the input shaft and the rotational center axis of the output shaft, R1 is a distance between the rotational center axis of the input shaft and the input-side fulcrum when an amount of eccentricity of the rotational radius adjusting mechanism is the predetermined amount of eccentricity, and R2 is a distance between the rotational center axis of the output shaft and the output-side fulcrum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.