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Endless belt power transmission systems or components July category listing 07/10

20100190592 - Vibration compensating pulley: A pulley has a hub and a rim. The hub is configured to be mountable on a driving shaft. A driving connection between the hub and rim is provided. In a first embodiment, a drive mechanism is operable to configure the rim between a circular profile and a non-circular profile.... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20100190593 - Chain transmission: There is disclosed a chain transmission comprising a driving shaft provided with one or more sprockets and a driven shaft provided with complementary sprockets, which is coupled to the driving shaft via a chain. Preferably, two chain-moving elements are provided between the driving shaft and the driven shaft, near the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100190595 - Eccentric tensioning device: An eccentric tensioning device for tensioning a traction means is provided. The eccentric tensioning device includes a track roller device having a running disk and a rolling bearing, a work eccentric for supporting the track roller device, the work eccentric being supported on an adjustment eccentric, a single torsion spring... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20100190594 - Pulley tensioner for an oil wet belt drive: A tensioner (1) for a belt drive, comprises a base (2) defining an axis (A), a mobile eccentric element (3) hinged about axis (A) and loaded by a spring (5), a pulley (4) idly connected to the mobile element (3). Specifically, the pulley (4) defines a single body with the... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20100190596 - Quiet sprocket device: The present invention is an improved ball-chain drive which is quiet and less prone to jamming. The ball-chain drive includes a sprocket having a plurality of regularly spaced peripheral pockets, the pockets being configured to mesh with the balls of the ball chain. The pockets of the sprocket are each... Agent: Elias Borges

20100190597 - Pulley for a cableway system and set of pulleys for producing a belt drive: A pulley for the production of a belt drive, in particular for driving deceleration wheels, conveying wheels and acceleration wheels in cableway systems, is formed in its central region with a hub for connecting it to a drive shaft and at its periphery with an annular belt surface, in particular... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100190598 - Chain with tooth type rollers: A chain with tooth type rollers comprises a plurality of links that are levelly arranged and horizontally overlapped with each other, a plurality of pins for connecting the overlapped portions of the adjacent links and a plurality of tooth type rollers taking the respective pin as a center and positioned... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20100184543 - Continuously variable transmission, actuator and intermediate terminal: Since a threaded shaft 111 of a ball screw mechanism is disposed parallel to a pulley shaft 201 and an axial displacement of the threaded shaft 111 is converted into an axial displacement of a movable sheave 207 by a fork member 300 which swings, the inertia of a nut... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20100184544 - Hydraulic control system for transmission: In a hydraulic control system for a transmission, line pressure Pl is adjusted in accordance with a second solenoid pressure Psls if the ratio of a first sheave pressure Pin with respect to a second solenoid pressure Psls is equal to or less than the gain α. If not so,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100184545 - Bicycle derailleur: A bicycle derailleur is basically provided with a base member, a movable member, a coupling member and a cable actuation ratio control mechanism. The movable member supports a chain guide. The coupling member movably couples the movable member to the base member. The cable actuation ratio control mechanism includes first... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20100184546 - Damping device of a mechanical tensioning system for a traction mechanism drive: A damping device of a mechanical tensioning system for a traction mechanism drive for damping pivoting movements of a tensioning arm. The tensioning arm is supported at one end by a tensioning roller on a traction mechanism and is rotatably mounted at the other end on a positionally fixed housing... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20100184547 - Debris ejecting sprocket and system: A debris ejecting sprocket comprising a body (100), a plurality of teeth (101) projecting from the body, a plurality of grooves (102) in alternating arrangement with the teeth, each groove receives a belt tooth, a cavity (103) disposed radially inward from each groove and communicating with the groove, the cavity... Agent: The Gates Corporation

20100184548 - Injection molded pulleys having low levels of out-of-roundness: Injection molded plastic pulleys (10) reinforced with glass fibers (at least 15 weight percent) are provided which exhibit low levels of out-of-roundness. The low levels of out-of-roundness can be achieved without the need for machining through the use of disc gating and perimeter venting. The pulleys (10) have belt-engaging surfaces... Agent: Maurice M Klee

20100179008 - Link plate for a silent chain: The present invention provides a link plate for a silent chain that can introduce and maintain adequate lubricant in the pin aperture without decreasing the strength of the link plate. A silent chain (1) is comprised of a plurality of link plates (2) each having a pair of teeth (22)... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Brown & Michaels, PC

20100173735 - Hydraulic tensioner with overtravel limiter: A hydraulic tensioner for a drive system, including a flexible, inextensible drive element, has a bi-directional travel limiter associated with a hydraulically biased tensioning cylinder. The travel limiter is bi-directional because it limits not only loading of the tensioning cylinder against a tensioner shoe in a direction tending to tighten... Agent: Jerome R. Drouillard

20100173736 - Method and system for verifying alignment of power transmission pulleys: A method and system for verifying the spatial and coplanar alignment of a number of power transmission pulleys, particularly as used with an automotive internal combustion engine. A planar light source is provided at a reference location associated with the power transmission pulleys, and an illumination plane emitted by the... Agent: Jerome R. Drouillard

20100173737 - Tool for mounting a belt on a pulley: The invention relates to a tool for mounting a belt in a ribbed groove of a pulley of a transmission system, the tool being characterized in that it presents a nose region (10) presenting a catching edge (11) that acts during mounting to form a bearing surface for at least... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20100173738 - Automatic belt tensioner: The invention relates to an automatic belt tensioner comprising a basic part that is connected to a tensioning part so as to be rotatable about a common axis of rotation, a helical spring that is joined to the basic part and the tensioning part, and a wrapping bush which is... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20100173739 - Timing chain driving system: In a timing chain drive, a hybrid driving sprocket, having roller-engaging teeth and side sprocket teeth, cooperates with a hybrid chain having rollers that mesh with the roller-engaging teeth and toothed link plates that mesh with the side sprocket teeth. A driven sprocket from which the chain travels toward the... Agent: Howson & Howson LLP

20100173740 - V-ribbed belt and method for manufacturing same: A V-ribbed belt that includes a ribbed surface covered with fabric is provided. The fabric is stretchable in two predetermined directions. A method for manufacturing the V-ribbed belt is also provided. The method includes placing a belt matrix about a mandrel, placing a fabric about the external circumference of the... Agent: The Gates Corporation

20100167852 - Driven pulley for a continuously variable transmission: The driven pulley is part of a continuously-variable transmission (CVT). The driven pulley comprises two coaxially-disposed sheaves defining between them a belt-receiving groove. It also has at least two axisymmetric ramp surfaces attached to one of the sheaves and at least two axisymmetric followers attached to the other sheave, each... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP

20100167853 - V-belt type continuously variable transmission: A V-belt type continuously variable transmission according to the present invention includes a drive pulley assembly provided in a drive shaft, a driven pulley assembly provided in a driven shaft, a V-belt looped over both the pulley assemblies, and a transmission case assembly housing both the pulley assemblies and the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100167854 - Transmission device for a cycle: A transmission device for a cycle, such as a bicycle, which includes a bottom bracket fixed relative to the remainder of the cycle frame. The device includes a cylindrical main body centered about a first axis and a secondary body centered about a second axis, the second axis being parallel... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100167855 - Chain or synchronous belt drive and tensioning or guiding element for integrating into a chain or synchronous belt drive: A chain or synchronous belt drive having at least one chain or synchronous belt wheel (3) is provided which is integrated into the drive, whereon the chain or synchronous belt (2) is guided. The chain or synchronous belt includes an over-jump protection element which overlaps, at least partially, the chain... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20100167856 - Device for driving a generator by a belt drive of an internal combustion engine: A device for connecting a generator to a belt drive of an internal combustion engine is provided, which includes a belt pulley (1) that is guided so that it can rotate relative to a hub (2) set on a shaft (3). At least one spring element is arranged between the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20100167857 - Resonance tension reducing sprocket with combined radial variation and sprocket wrap: In a chain and sprocket assembly, the order of the sprocket and the wrap angle of the chain are selected such that the resonance tension of the chain and sprocket assembly is minimized.... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20100167858 - Narrow seal chain: In a seal chain having ring-shaped seals sealed between outer plates and inner plates, by reducing the thickness of the outer plates and the inner plates, a distance between inner side surfaces of the both inner plates and a distance between outer side surfaces of the both outer plates are... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100167859 - high-load drive v-belt: The present invention aims at improving the shock resistance of a block without lowering the power transmission property or the wear resistance of a belt while suppressing the separation of the contact portion off of the reinforcing member. A high-load drive V-belt B includes: at least one tension band 10... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20100167860 - V-ribbed belt and method for manufacturing same: A V-ribbed belt that includes a ribbed surface covered with fabric is provided. The fabric is stretchable in two predetermined directions. A method for manufacturing the V-ribbed belt is also provided. The method includes placing a belt matrix about a mandrel, placing a fabric about the external circumference of the... Agent: The Gates Corporation

20100167861 - Friction transmission belt: A friction transmission belt, which comprises a compressed rubber layer containing an ethylene-α-olefin elastomer, a short fiber and silica and having a single-layer structure. The friction transmission belt can inhibit a noise owing to the slip caused when the friction drive section of the belt is covered with water and... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald