1670results about "Driving belts" patented technology

A belt made up of an elastomeric belt body, an electrically conductive tensile cord such as carbon fiber cord in a cord layer reinforcing the belt body, an outer layer of electrically conductive thermoplastic material such as polypropylene film, and an electrically conductive fabric layer residing between the tensile cord layer and the outer layer and providing electrical continuity between the outer layer and the tensile cord. An electrically conductive thread may be woven in the fabric and may present at both surfaces of the fabric and contact both the outer layer and the tensile cord to provide the electrical continuity there between.

A track assembly for providing traction to a vehicle, such as an agricultural vehicle, a construction vehicle, or another work vehicle The track assembly is mountable to an axle of the vehicle The track assembly comprises a plurality of wheels comprising a leading idler wheel and a trailing idler wheel spaced apart in a longitudinal direction of the track assembly, an axis of rotation of the axle of the vehicle being located between an axis of rotation of the leading idler wheel and an axis of rotation of the trailing idler wheel in the longitudinal direction of the track assembly, and a driver wheel for rotating when the axle of the vehicle rotates The track assembly also comprises an endless track disposed around the wheels The endless track comprises an inner side facing the wheels and a ground-engaging outer side for engaging the ground The endless track engages the driver wheel such that rotation of the driver wheel imparts motion to the endless track.

A multi-layered belt, in particular a continuous running and / or transport and / or processing belt, includes a traction layer and a functional layer that contains a gel. To reduce the stress placed on the transported goods, in particular persons, the gel is an unplasticized gel and the functional layer consist of a coating containing the interspersed gel. In addition, to a method for producing a belt of this type is provided, in which the gel is poured in a continuous method onto the traction layer and a mixer and delivery unit is guided back and forth in a reversible manner perpendicular to the displacement direction of the traction layer in such a way that a gel layer with a uniform thickness is applied to the traction layer. Furthermore, the use of said belt as a running belt for persons, in particular as a running belt for training and / or fitness equipment is described.

A belt tensioning device for a belt drive which comprises a driving machine with a driving belt pulley drivable by a driveshaft around a driving axis, and a plurality of further belt pulleys and with an infinite belt which is wrapped around the driving belt pulley and the further belt pulleys wherein the belt tensioning device comprises a housing in which two tensioning arms are supported so as to be pivotable around a common pivot axis, in which tensioning arms there are supported tensioning rollers with axes of rotation extending parallel to the driving axis, wherein the tensioning arms are supported relative to one another by spring means, wherein, with the driving belt pulley mounted at the driving machine, the housing can be mounted in that, in an annular region surrounding the driveshaft of the driving belt pulley, the housing is contact-free relative to the driving machine.

A camera holder (1) for a stand with a mounting screw (25) provided in a carrier plate (22 / 60) screwable into the mounting thread (32) of a camera (33), wherein the carrier plate (22 / 60) is mounted directly or indirectly on a rotation plate (6), wherein it is adjustable in a plane perpendicular to the vertical rotation axis (37) of the rotation plate (6) and wherein the rotation plate (6) is fixable in any desired rotation position by means of a clamping device (10). The carrier plate (22 / 60) is steplessly adjustable in two horizontal axis perpendicular to each other relative to the rotation axis (37) of the rotation plate (6), by means of a cross sled (14), wherein the cross sled (14) exhibits a first lower profile rail (15) with a thereupon adjustable first sled (16), which on the rotation plate (6) is secured.

A thermoplastic endless belt (100) has a smooth outer surface substantially free of discontinuities and an inner surface with a plurality of teeth (106) at a given belt pitch. The teeth are adapted to engage a pulley (102) with circumferentially spaced sheaves (104) at a pulley pitch greater than the belt pitch. The belt is slightly stretchable so that the pulley can drive the endless belt when engaging the teeth within a range of load on the belt. Means (132, 136, 138) are provided to minimize friction between the belt and the drive pulley. Also, a position limiter (200) ensures that the driven tooth stays engaged optimally with the drive sheave.

The object is to provide a carbon fiber-reinforced rubber material which is superior in heat resistance, water resistance, and dimensional stability and exhibits resistance to fatigue from flexing at a practical level. The present invention relates to a prepreg comprising a liquid rubber composition having a viscosity in a range of 0.01 Pa.s to 100 Pa.s at 70° C. and substantially containing no solvent, the liquid rubber being impregnated into a reinforcing fiber, and relates to a fiber-reinforced rubber material comprising the prepreg in which the liquid rubber is crosslinked. Also, the present invention relates to a fiber-reinforced rubber material comprising a substrate comprising a rubber component, the substrate being reinforced by a core material comprising a prepreg of a reinforcing fiber impregnated with the same rubber component.

A sprocket and a roller chain drive system including same are disclosed. The sprocket is a random engagement sprocket comprising a first plurality of A-profile teeth formed with a first asymmetric profile and a second plurality of B-profile teeth formed with a second asymmetric profile. The A-profile teeth each define a first pressure angle and the B-profile teeth each define a second pressure angle that is at least 5 degrees greater than said first pressure angle so that a minimum separation Δ is defined. The sprocket is defined with added chordal pitch reduction of 0.2% up to 1% relative to the link pitch of the associated roller chain. The sprocket can be defined with root relief and / or can comprise resilient cushion rings. Initial roller contacts made with the A-profile and B-profile teeth are modulated owing to the pressure angle separation and added chordal pitch reduction.

A power transmission belt having a main belt body portion of elastomeric material, a tensile reinforcement such as carbon fiber cord, disposed in said body portion, and a sheave contact portion integral with said main body portion. The elastomeric material includes the reaction product of a polyisocyanate prepolymer composition and a chain extender. The polyisocyanate prepolymer composition is prepared by reacting a diisocyanate and a polyol substantially free of moieties oxidative at less than about 150° C. and at least one triol crosslinker selected from the same group of polyols. Either before or after reacting the prepolymer, a plasticizer selected from the group consisting of alkyl-ether di-alkylesters such as polyethylene glycol di-alkylester is added thereto. The chain extender is an aromatic symmetric primary or secondary diamine chain extenders.

A belt with a tensile cord embedded in an elastomeric body, having a polyurea-urethane adhesive composition impregnating the cord and coating the fibers. The composition is reaction product of a polyurethane prepolymer and a diamine curative or water. The prepolymer is a reaction product of a compact, symmetric diisocyanate and a polyester, polyether, or polycarbonate polyol. The belt body may be of cast polyurethane, vulcanized rubber, or thermoplastic elastomer. The cord may have an adhesive overcoat.

The present invention relates to molded polyurethane / urea elastomers, and specifically to improved polyurethane / urea elastomers having high temperature stability to about 140–150° C. and low temperature flexibility at about −35–(−40)° C., for use in dynamic applications. These elastomers are particularly useful for application in belts, specifically in automotive timing or synchronous belts, V-belts, multi V-ribbed or micro-ribbed belts, flat belting and the like. The polyurethane / urea elastomers of the present invention are prepared by reacting polyisocyanate prepolymers with symmetric primary diamine chain extenders, mixtures of symmetric primary diamine chain extenders and secondary diamine chain extenders, or mixtures of symmetric primary diamine chain extenders and non-oxidative polyols, which are all chosen to eliminate the need for catalysts via standard molding processes, and to improve phase separation. The polyisocyanate prepolymers are reaction products of polyols which are nonoxidative at high temperatures, such as polycarbonate polyols, polyester polyols, or mixtures thereof, with organic polyisocyanates which are either compact, symmetric and aromatic, such as para-phenylene diisocyanate, 1,5-naphthalene diisocyanate, and 2,6-toluene diisocyanate, or are aliphatic and possess trans or trans,trans geometric structure, such as trans-1,4-cyclohexane diisocyanate and trans,trans-4,4′-dicyclohexylmethyl diisocyanate.

The oscillating tooth gear is designed according to the ''sliding vane stepless deformation principle'', its working surface is made up by coinciding lots of sliding vanes (sliding needles), it can utilize sliding vane free stepless slippage to form any shaped meshed tooth profile. Because the slippage direction of sliding vane is different from its stress direction, the sliding vane can be freely deformed with current meshed tooth profile, and the stress direction when the power is trans ferred is perpendicular to free slippage direction or its included angle is in the equivalent frictional angle, so that said sliding vane has the self-locking property, and when the stress is borne by it, it does not change tooth profile form, all the sliding vanes can be formed into an integrated elastic closed ring, therefore it has strong bearing capacity and high transmission efficiency.

Described is an endless track for an industrial or agricultural vehicle consisting of a body formed of a rubber material having an outer surface displaying a series of ground engaging profiles longitudinally spaced along the surface and an inner surface displaying a series of longitudinally spaced drive lugs adapted to be engaged by drive sprockets on the vehicle driving assembly. The body of the endless track is fabric reinforced. One layer of fabric longitudinally extends at a distance from the inner surface of the track and has a width slightly less than the width of the drive lugs so that the fabric may extend inside the drive lugs to increase their rigidity.

A power transmission belt having a body defined by rubber and having an exposed outer surface, a fiber layer on at least a part of the exposed outer surface of the body, and a mixture including a resin adhesive ingredient, a rubber ingredient, and a lubricant that is a fluorine resin powder that is applied to the fiber layer.

A noise suppressor for a straddle-type vehicle provided with a belt type continuously variable transmission having a resin-block-type belt. A portion of an air passage for guiding air to a belt chamber is formed in a closed casing. The closed casing includes a dish-shaped first casing member and a dish-shaped second casing member. An inlet port and an exhaust port are formed in the second casing member. Partition walls in the form of curved plate pieces are formed in the first casing and second casing members. Air flow paths formed by the partition walls are U-shaped, thereby forming a serpentine flow.

An endless track belt for use in an industrial or agricultural vehicle is described. The endless rubber track belt comprises a rubber carcass having an inner surface having one or more drive lugs and an outer surface having tread lugs, the drive lugs having a reinforcement layer of low friction material which extends substantially along the width of the drive lug. The low friction reinforcement material may also optionally extend substantially along the width of the track belt.

1. A liquid crystal device includes a substrate including unit pixels each composed of a plurality of sub pixels arranged in a plurality of rows and one column and having a long side in the row direction and a short side in the column direction, wherein the substrate includes switching elements, an insulating film provided on at least the upper side of each of the switching elements, at least one first transparent electrodes provided on the upper side of the insulating film, other insulating film provided on the upper side of the first transparent electrodes, and at least one second transparent electrode formed on the upper side of the other insulating film and having a plurality of slits formed for each of the sub pixels and generating an electric field, the electric field being generated between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode through each of the slits, and the extending direction of the long side of each of the slits is defined in a direction not the same as the extending direction of the short side of the sub pixels.

The present invention relates to lightweight sprocket, consisting of a central portion (1) made from light metal alloy, to which a peripheral toothed portion (2) made from ferrous alloy is joined, using rivets (3) for joining said portions (1,2), where said joining is created between radial beams (21) of the peripheral toothed portion (2) and pocket-like recess (13) in the central portion (1), radial beams (21) being overlapped across bottoms of pocket-like recesses (13), and where a thickness of radial beams (21), at least over the joining area, is decreased by 10 to 60%, in relation to full thickness of said toothed peripheral portion (2), and a thickness of a bottom of the pocket-like recess (13) in the central portion (1) is decreased by 20 to 70%, in relation to full thickness of the central portion (1) of the sprocket.

A tensioner (10) features a backstop device (40) which allows free rotation of the pivot arm (20) in one direction but not the other. Reverse rotation is prevented by friction that is able to resist torque on the pivot arm (20) under ordinary operating conditions which otherwise could permit belt tooth-skip to occur. In disclosed embodiments, the backstop device (40) includes a stop sleeve (50) and a clamp holder (60) which are axially interlocked and are able to rotate relative to each other. A clutch spring (80) surrounds permits relative rotation between the stop sleeve (50) and the clamp holder (60) in one direction but not the other. A clamp (70) retained within the clamp holder (60) frictionally engages the pivot shaft. A viscous coupling may be used in place of the frictional clamp.

Conveyer belts (10) are deflected many times along a conveying path of the objects to be conveyed. It has been shown that unpleasant squeaking noises are generated in the region of this deflection between the guide means (12) of the conveyer belt (10) and guide rollers or guide drums.The invention is based on the knowledge that the squeaking noises are caused by the relatively high friction value of the material of the conveyer belt (10). The design according to the invention therefore proposes that at least the outer side of the guide means (12) of the conveyer belt (10) is provided with a coating (26) made from a material with a lower frictional value. As a result, it has been shown that undesirable squeaking noices can be effectively avoided.

A sprocket is provided having a plurality of teeth around its circumference. Adjacent teeth are separated by roots each having a root radius defined as the distance between the center of the sprocket and a point along the root closest to the sprocket center in a radial direction. In one aspect of the invention, the sprocket comprises at least two different root radii arranged in a pattern effective to redistribute tensions imparted to a chain by the sprocket at one or more predetermined sprocket orders.

A supporting and drive belt including a belt body or sheathing which encloses tensile carriers. The running surface of the belt can be flat and parallel to the belt back or have trapezium-shaped or semicircular ribs and grooves, wherein the profile of a drive pulley or of a deflecting pulley is approximately complementary to the running surface of the belt. One or more tensile carriers are provided for each rib, wherein the tensile carriers are laid or stranded alternately in the “Z” direction and the “S” direction.

This invention refers to the traction lugs of reinforced elastomeric endless traction bands, and more particularly to those which are used on heavy vehicles like defense vehicles or for skid steer vehicles. More specifically, the invention relates to traction lugs which are angled with respect to the transversal axis of the traction band and preferably disposed in chevrons, which optimize the band's traction while reducing the occurrences of teeth skipping and the level of vibrations and noise induced by the interaction of the traction band with the sprocket.

Belt drive assembly for driving accessory parts of an internal combustion engine comprising a reversible electric machine, comprising a belt with a plurality of longitudinal ribs alternating with grooves and with a plurality of cavities spaced at equal distances from each other longitudinally and obtained transversely with respect to the ribs in such a way as to interrupt them; the pulley comprises a plurality of ribs suited to engage the grooves of the belt and a plurality of teeth transverse with respect to the ribs, spaced at equal distances from each other on the circumference and suited to engage the respective cavities of the belt. The cavities of the belt have a depth at the most equal to the height of the ribs of the belt itself, and the ribs of the pulley have a radial height larger than the teeth, so as to cooperate with the belt continuously along the whole winding arc.