Endless belt power transmission systems or components inventions 07/08

20080182688 - Power unit for small vehicle: A power unit including an internal combustion engine with a crankshaft and a power transmission system. The power transmission system being equipped with a belt-type continuously variable transmission having a drive shaft and a driven shaft. The belt-type continuously variable transmission being disposed below the axis of the crankshaft wherein... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080182689 - Bicycle chain guide: A bicycle chain guide includes a first guide plate, a second guide plate, a first connection part and a second connection part. The first guide plate has a first chain engagement surface and the second guide plate has a second chain engagement to form a chain receiving area. The first... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080182690 - Undeformable transmission mechanism: An undeformable transmission mechanism comprises a table, a transmission member, a rotating shaft and a supporting member. The rotating shaft, the transmission member and the supporting member are assembled on the table, and the supporting member is disposed at one end of the rotating shaft. When the transmission member rotates... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080182691 - Chain: A chain includes a connecting unit including two chain plates, and a link unit having first and second link plates parallel to the chain plates and a link pin. The first link plate is formed with a stop block and a retaining hole having an insert hole portion and a... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080182692 - Power transmission chain and power transmission apparatus: A gap with a predetermined size is formed between adjacent links arranged in a chain width direction, the size of the gap is set smaller than a maximum warpage amount of the links.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080176686 - Torque transmission device with enhanced ability to absorb change in rotation between torque input and output member: A torque transmission device which may be used to transmit torque, as inputted from an automotive engine through a belt, to an accessory such as an alternator and is designed to have enhanced ability to absorb a change in rotation of a torque input member relative to an torque output... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080176687 - Tensioner and installation assembly: A tensioner comprising a base (10) having a shaft (70) fixedly connected thereto, the shaft having a bore (72), a pivot arm (40) pivotally engaged with the shaft and having a pivot axis (A-A), a pulley (50) journalled to the pivot arm and having a center of rotation about axis... Agent: The Gates Corporation

20080176688 - Chain transmission device: In a chain transmission, a sprocket having an elastic ring sandwiched between a central hub and an annular toothed outer member, the tooth form is such that the root diameter, that is, the diameter of the tooth gap bottom circle, is greater than the root diameter in a sprocket having... Agent: Howson And Howson

20080176689 - Rotating disk with a periodically changing tooth-space geometry: A rotating disk is provided, which can rotate by a rotational angle about a rotational axis (12) and has a number of teeth (20) arranged on a periphery of the rotating disk (10) and tooth spaces (22) located between the teeth, through whose middle runs a tooth-space middle line (30),... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080176690 - Anti-rewet transfer belt: An endless belt for a press section forces a controlled amount of air into a sheet to relieve a vacuum in the sheet during dewatering of the sheet. The first surface of the belt is impermeable to water and permeable to air and the second surface of the belt is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080176691 - Bicycle chain wheel assembly: A bicycle chain wheel assembly is provided with a chain wheel and a chain wheel cover. The chain wheel has a central mounting portion and an outer gear with a plurality of outer gear teeth. The chain wheel cover is disposed on an exteriorly facing side of the chain wheel.... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080176692 - Belt-driven transmission: A belt-driven transmission having an endless torque-transmitting member that is operatively connected with two power transmitting elements. The transmission includes at least one guide rail assembly that engages the endless torque-transmitting member with free play and that has an outer guide rail and an inner guide rail so that the... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20080176693 - Plate-link chain: A plate-link chain for a belt-driven conical-pulley transmission having a continuously variable transmission ratio. Individual rocker joints that join chain links formed by plate sets are designed as pairs of rocker members inserted into openings in the plates and having rolling surfaces that bear against each other. Three plates lying... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20080176694 - Plate-link chain: A plate-link chain having a plurality of link plates hingedly connected with each other by pairs of rocker members that each include two rocker members. The rocker members extend transversely to the longitudinal direction of the plate-link chain and are situated with play in openings in the link plates. The... Agent: Alfred J Mangels

20080171622 - Flatband torsion spring and tensioner: A tensioner comprising a base (20), a pivot arm (30), a pulley (90) journalled to the pivot arm, a torsion spring (10) engaged between the base and the pivot arm, the torsion spring biasing the pivot arm, the torsion spring comprising a cross-sectional form having a major axis (Z-Z) and... Agent: The Gates Corporation

20080171623 - Structure of belt driven mechanism designed to ensure stability of operation of bearing: A belt driven mechanism which may be employed to transmit engine torque to an automotive electric rotary accessory such as an alternator. The belt driven mechanism is equipped with bearings disposed between a pulley around which a belt is wound and a torque output rotor. The belt driven mechanism also... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080171624 - Chain transmission device: In a chain transmission, vibration reduction is improved by an elastic member, sandwiched between an inner hub of a sprocket and a toothed outer circumferential member, in combination with a sprocket tooth configuration in which two or three different tooth form pitch angles are arranged irregularly along the sprocket's pitch... Agent: Howson And Howson

20080167148 - Bicycle front derailleur: A bicycle front derailleur includes a fixed member, a movable member, a chain guide and a linking member. The fixed member is coupled to a bicycle frame. The movable member is movably coupled to the fixed member. The chain guide is coupled to the movable member and extends in a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080167149 - Belt drive mechanism: A drive mechanism mounted on a frame (10) equipped with a body (16) containing at least one inner bearing race (24) defining an axis of rotation (26), comprises a single-piece drum (48) located entirely on a first side of a radial plane of reference (34). This drum is equipped with... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080167150 - Tensioning roller device: Tensioning roller device including a non-rotating part about which there is rotationally mounted a pulley-forming rotating assembly designed to collaborate with a belt or a chain and a rolling bearing positioned between the non-rotating part and the pulley and including a rotating ring, a non-rotating ring and rolling elements, the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080167151 - Link plate for silent chain: In a link plate for a silent chain, outer flanks of the teeth have a protruding surface and a retracted surface, the protruding surfac and the retracted surface being connected by a step, and the protruding surface being farther than the retraced surface from the back of the link plate.... Agent: Howson And Howson

20080161141 - Water pump pulley for cooling system of vehicle: A water pump pulley for a cooling system for a vehicle is provided. The water pump pulley for a cooling system of a vehicle includes an outer rotational member formed of thermoplastic resin, the outer rotational member being provided at an outer circumference with one or more V-shaped circumferential grooves... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080161142 - Power unit having engine and continuously variable transmission, configuration thereof, and vehicle incorporating same: A power unit includes an engine having a crankshaft, and a continuously variable transmission having a drive pulley operatively connected with the crankshaft, a driven pulley, and a belt extended between and wrapped around the drive pulley and the driven pulley. The power unit further includes a transmission input clutch,... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080161143 - Orbital speed reducer by belt: It is an epicyclic gear system for use in speed reducer or overdrive, however using an inner pulley, an external ring and a driving belt or a tire instead of using toothed gears. The system particularity is an inner pulley drivingly coupled to an external ring and the torque transmission... Agent: Valmor Da Cunha Gravio

20080161144 - Chain transmission device: In a chain transmission a standard ISO roller chain meshes with a modified sprocket having a root diameter larger than the root diameter of a standard sprocket designed for use with the standard chain. The angular tooth pitches can be either of two kinds. In a first version, the sprocket... Agent: Howson And Howson

20080161145 - Bicycle chain wheel with fastener cover: A bicycle chain wheel assembly is provided with a chainring mounting structure, at least one chainring, a plurality of fasteners and a plurality of fastener covering structures. The chainring mounting structure has an exterior facing side and an interior facing side with a plurality of chainring mounting openings on the... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080161146 - Bicycle chain wheel with fastener covers: A bicycle chain wheel assembly is provided with a chainring mounting structure, at least one chainring, a plurality of fasteners and a plurality of fastener covering structures. The chainring mounting structure has an exterior facing side and an interior facing side with a plurality of chainring mounting openings on the... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080161147 - Oil-free chain: An oil-free chain has bushings which protrude from the outer surfaces of the inner link plates into which they are press-fit, and extend into bushing supporting bores formed in the inner surfaces of the outer link plates of the chain. These bushing supporting bores are formed by a pressing operation... Agent: Howson And Howson

20080161148 - Power transmission chain and power transmission device: A chain (1) includes plural links (2) and plural pairs of first and second pins (3 and 4) to couple the links each other. The first pin (3) comes into rolling and sliding contact with the second pin (4) at the contact portion (D). The first pin (3) includes a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc