Method of joining belt materials
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaaki Fujita, Ugeun Shin, Hiroshi Matsui, Kazuma Fujiwara, Kuniaki Akutsu
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Abstract
A first recessing-and-projecting line is formed in a trailing end of a preceding first belt material and a second recessing-and-projecting line is formed in a leading end of a newly fed out second belt material, and the first recessing-and-projecting line and the second recessing-and-projecting line are fitted to each other, thereby joining the first belt material and the second belt material. Note that the first recessing-and-projecting line and the second recessing-and-projecting line pass through a holding section that holds an element in the first belt material or the second belt material.
Claims6
A method of joining belt materials comprising:
- a joining step in which a trailing end of a first belt material which is fed out ahead and a leading end of a second belt material which is fed out after the first belt material, are opposed, and a first recessing-and-projecting line is formed in the trailing end of the first belt material while a second recessing-and-projecting line is formed in the leading end of the second belt material, and then the first recessing-and-projecting line and the second recessing-and-projecting line are fitted to each other thereby joining the first belt material and the second belt material;
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- a punching step in which the first belt material and the second belt material are fed out and punched in a shape of an element of a belt for continuously variable transmission,
- in the joining step, the first recessing-and-projecting line and the second recessing-and-projecting line being formed in a position that passes through a holding section holding the element in the first belt material or the second belt material, thereby joining the first belt material and the second belt material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.