Endless belt power transmission systems or components inventions 12/06

20060293133 - Dual pivoting pawl tensioner: A tensioner including a housing, a piston, a piston spring, a first pawl and a second pawl. The housing has a bore for slidably receiving a piston. The piston has a plurality of teeth formed along at least a portion of the outer circumference of the piston. The piston spring... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20060293134 - Pivoting mechanical tensioner with compliant blade spring: A tensioner for imparting tension to a chain having a body, a resilient chain guide element, at least one blade spring, and at least one bracket. The body of the tensioner has a surface with a profile of the path of a new chain and a groove found longitudinally along... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20060293135 - Belt tensioner with damping member: A tensioner for tensioning a belt includes a support housing at least in part defining a spring cavity. A damping member having a first friction bearing surface is at least partially disposed in the spring cavity. An arm pivotally attached to the support housing has a second friction bearing surface.... Agent: Dayco Products, LLC

20060293136 - Mechanical chain tensioner with compliant blade spring: A tensioner for imparting tension to a chain having a body, a resilient chain guide element, at least one blade spring, and at least one bracket. The body of the tensioner has a surface with a profile of the path of a new chain and a groove found longitudinally along... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20060293137 - Pulley hub: A hub assembly having a hub body. The hub body includes a generally circular outer wall, a leg portion extending from the hub body and a central body portion. The outer wall is adapted for engagement with a driving belt. The central body portion is adapted to fixedly attached the... Agent: Freudenberg-nok General Partnership Legal Department

20060293138 - Rigidizable chain: Projectile ramming apparatus includes a rammer pawl for engaging the base of a projectile with a rigidizable chain attached to the rammer pawl for providing reciprocating movement thereto. The rigidizable chaining includes a plurality of rows of links having adjacent links pivotally attached to one another. A perimeter of each... Agent: Walter A. Hackler, Ph.d. Patent Law Office

20060293139 - Plate-link chain: A plate-link chain, in particular a toothed plate-link chain, made up of a plurality of plates that form sets of plates which are connected to neighboring sets of plates with a hinged connection. One rocker member of a hinged connection is connected to the plates of a set of plates... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20060293140 - Banded power transmission v-belt: A single strand banded V-belt is described featuring at least one ply of a band fabric which traverses the bottom surface and each of the side surfaces of the belt body so as to cover the load-carrying section at the position that it intercepts the side surfaces of the belt... Agent: Curtis Castleman The Gates Corporation

20060287146 - Belt alternator starter accessory drive with dual tensioner: An accessory drive for an engine has a belt driven starter generator adapted for driving and being driven by the engine. In an exemplary embodiment, the drive includes a first engine drive pulley and a second starter drive pulley. A drive belt engages the drive pulleys for driving either pulley... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20060287147 - Shock absorbing endless belt for a treadmill: Disclosed is an energy absorbing endless belt comprises a polymeric gel and a substrate enveloped by a top and bottom layer. The top layer may serve as the running surface for the treadmill and may be made of a different material than the bottom layer. The substrate has a density... Agent: Steven L. Schmid

20060287148 - Fabric treatment for reinforced elastomeric articles: A fabric or cord is treated with an elastomeric compound comprises 20-80 parts per hundred cross-linkable materials of liquid elastomer. The liquid elastomer has a complex dynamic viscosity less than 5 McP (5,000 N*s/m2) at a temperature between 20° C. and the maximum flow temperature TF, and the elastomeric compound... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20060281594 - Mechanical chain tensioner with a rotational ratcheting device: A blade tensioner comprising a blade shoe with a proximal end pivotally attached to the bracket and a distal end of a clevis shape having a raised portion and a recessed portion for receiving a semicircular ratchet wheel, with an edge of the raised portion defined by a radial journal... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20060281595 - Tensioner: A tensioner that includes a piston supported slidably in a piston bore formed in a housing, a piston spring biasing the piston in the protruding direction, and a circlip member having an expandable ring-shaped body that is engageable with the rack teeth of the piston. In the piston bore, the... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20060276279 - Belt type continuously variable transmission: Usually, the speed change control of the transmission is carried out in accordance with a real speed ratio “i” provided based on a primary pulley rotation speed “N1” and a secondary pulley rotation speed “N2”. While, when, at the time of stopping the vehicle, the real speed ratio fails to...

20060276280 - Utility machinery and associated control arrangements: A power transmission device for utility machinery is disclosed, the device including: a) a sleeve supporting a first sheave member having a first face; b) a hub received through said sleeve and moveable axially in relation thereto, said hub supporting a second sheave member having a second face that opposes...

20060276281 - Utility machinery and associated control arrangements: A power transmission device for utility machinery is disclosed, the device including: a) a sleeve supporting a first sheave member having a first face; b) a hub received through said sleeve and moveable axially in relation thereto, said hub supporting a second sheave member having a second face that opposes...

20060276282 - Utility machinery and associated control arrangements: A power transmission device for utility machinery is disclosed, the device including: a) a sleeve supporting a first sheave member having a first face; b) a hub received through said sleeve and moveable axially in relation thereto, said hub supporting a second sheave member having a second face that opposes...

20060276283 - Mobile machine for screeding floor surfaces and the like: A mobile machine for screeding floor surfaces and the like comprises a planet disk, which is rotatably supported and driven by a drive motor, and which carries at least one screeding disk, operatively connected to the drive motor and defining one screeding plane. The operative connection comprises at least one...

20060276284 - Automotive accessory drive system and method of operation: The present invention provides an automotive accessory drive system and method having a selectively lockable flexible drive belt tensioner with a damper element filled with a variable viscosity fluid with magneto-rheological or electro-rheological properties. When the combined alternator/starter motor of a belt alternator starter (BAS) system is commanded to restart...

20060276285 - Common link dual arm tensioning device: A chain tensioning device links multiple tensioning arms to a common link, causing the tensioning arms to rotate into and displace chain strands with a single applied force and motion. The two tensioning arms rotate and tension proportionally, and when the pivot pin distances are equal, the two tensioning arms...

20060276286 - Power transmission chain with ceramic joint components: Power transmission chains (10, 40, 60) which are suitable for automotive uses as well as other uses and which have a reduced susceptibility to wear and corrosion, in which such chains (10, 40, 60) are constructed to include a plurality of sets (12, 14) of links (11, 13) joined at...