US 8,272,984 B2 · Endless metal belt

Endless metal belt

AssigneesAisin Aw Co., Ltd., Toyota Jodosha Kabushiki Kaisha, CVTC Co., Ltd

InventorsKoji Kato, Masashi Hattori, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Hideharu Ushida, Masaki Saito, Katsumori Fujii, Shinichiro Yajima, Koichi Tanaka, Hirofumi Nozawa, Keisuke Ninomiya, Satoru Ando, Yuji Hattori, Tomohito Suzuki, Miyoshi Kakiuchi, Toshiaki Oomori, Kazuhiro Hanaki, Keiichiro Irie

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Abstract

An endless metal belt including a ring formed by laminating endless metal plates; and multiple elements continuously attached to the ring. Each of the elements has a body, a head connected to the body by a pillar, and slots formed between the body and the head on left and right sides of the pillar, respectively, for receiving the ring. The elements satisfy the equations (h/t)<1 and (S/h)>40, where h is a width of the slots, t is a plate thickness of the elements, and S is an area of the head.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An endless metal belt, comprising:

a pair of rings formed by laminating a plurality of endless metal plates;
and
a multiplicity of elements continuously attached to the ring, wherein
each of the elements has a body, a head connected to the body by a pillar, and slots formed between the body and the head on left and right sides of the pillar, respectively, for receiving the respective rings, and
the elements satisfy (h/t)<1 and (S/h)>40 mm,
where h is a width of the slots, t is a plate thickness of the elements, and S is an area of the head.

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