Belt

Continuous variable transmission belt (3), comprising:

• an endless carrier (4) for taking up tensile forces within said belt (3) and, in operation between two pulleys, having an upper pushing crossing trajectory between the two pulleys;
• and
• a plurality of transverse elements (5) having a tapered lower element part and an upper element part,
• said elements provided moveable in a longitudinal direction along said carrier,
• said elements provided with a saddle surface (8) contacting the carrier, said saddle surface defining a mutual position of said carrier and said elements relative to each other within the belt in a radial direction,
• the upper element extending radially beyond the carrier,
• the lower element part having a rocking edge (9), the rocking edge having a beginning edge and an ending edge so that the lower element part terminates with the ending edge,
• the upper element (10) part extending from ending edge of said rocking edge and terminating with a radial outer end,
• the upper element having a first thickness, in a longitudinal direction of the belt, at or near the ending edge of said rocking edge and a greater second thickness, in the longitudinal direction of the belt, at or near the radial outer end, wherein,
• a thickness of the upper element part, in the longitudinal direction of the belt, is notionally larger than a largest thickness of the tapered lower element part, and
• the upper element part has a thickest part near the radial outer end relative to the first thickness, such that an array of the elements being pushed against one another within said belt, when mutually contacting through their upper element parts, form a convex arc shape, as seen in an axial side elevation, at the upper pushing crossing trajectory between the two pulleys.

Continuous variable transmission belt (3), comprising:

• an endless carrier (4) taking up tensile forces within said belt (3) and, in operation between two pulleys, having an upper pushing crossing trajectory between the two pulleys;
• and
• a plurality of transverse elements (5) having a tapered lower element part with a rocking edge (9) and an upper element (10) part extending from said rocking edge,
• said elements provided moveable in a longitudinal direction along said carrier,
• said elements provided with a saddle surface (8) contacting the carrier, said saddle surface defining an ultimate mutual position of said carrier and said elements relative to each other within the belt in a radial direction,
• the upper element extending radially beyond the carrier, wherein,
• a thickness of the upper element part, in a longitudinal direction of the belt, is notionally larger than a largest thickness of the tapered lower element part, and
• the upper element part has a thickest part near a radial outer end relative to a thickness of the upper element part at or near the rocking edge, such that an array of the elements being pushed against one another within said belt, when mutually contacting through their upper element parts, form an arc as seen in an axial side elevation convexly shaped in the upper pushing crossing trajectory between the two pulleys.