Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16G—BELTS, CABLES, OR ROPES, PREDOMINANTLY USED FOR DRIVING PURPOSES; CHAINS; FITTINGS PREDOMINANTLY USED THEREFOR
  • F16G5/00—V-belts, i.e. belts of tapered cross-section
  • F16G5/16—V-belts, i.e. belts of tapered cross-section consisting of several parts
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16H—GEARING
  • F16H9/00—Gearings for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio, or for reversing rotary motion, by endless flexible members
  • F16H9/02—Gearings for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio, or for reversing rotary motion, by endless flexible members without members having orbital motion
  • F16H9/04—Gearings for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio, or for reversing rotary motion, by endless flexible members without members having orbital motion using belts, V-belts, or ropes
  • F16H9/12—Gearings for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio, or for reversing rotary motion, by endless flexible members without members having orbital motion using belts, V-belts, or ropes engaging a pulley built-up out of relatively axially-adjustable parts in which the belt engages the opposite flanges of the pulley directly without interposed belt-supporting members
  • F16H9/125—Gearings for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio, or for reversing rotary motion, by endless flexible members without members having orbital motion using belts, V-belts, or ropes engaging a pulley built-up out of relatively axially-adjustable parts in which the belt engages the opposite flanges of the pulley directly without interposed belt-supporting members characterised by means for controlling the geometrical interrelationship of pulleys and the endless flexible member, e.g. belt alignment or position of the resulting axial pulley force in the plane perpendicular to the pulley axis
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16H—GEARING
  • F16H9/00—Gearings for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio, or for reversing rotary motion, by endless flexible members
  • F16H9/02—Gearings for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio, or for reversing rotary motion, by endless flexible members without members having orbital motion
  • F16H9/24—Gearings for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio, or for reversing rotary motion, by endless flexible members without members having orbital motion using chains or toothed belts, belts in the form of links; Chains or belts specially adapted to such gearing

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a continuously variable transmission provided with a pulley with convex sheaves and with a drive belt, as described in the preamble of Claim 1.
• the design and operation of a transmission of this type are deemed to be known, for example from European Patent 1218654, which also shows one of the known types of drive elements, such as drive belts and chains.
• the drive belt shown in EP-A-1218654 is generally known as the Van Doorne push belt and is described in more detail, for example, in patent publication EP-A-1221563.
• This push belt is characterized, inter alia, by a series of transverse elements, each comprising a lower body, a middle body and an upper body.
• the lateral sides or flanks of the lower body are in this case intended for contact with the sheaves of a driving or primary pulley and those of a driven or secondary pulley of the transmission.
• the top body of the transverse elements is located radially outside the tensioning element, while the middle body connects the lower body and top body to one another at the level of the tensioning element.
• the transverse elements are accommodated in the drive belt such that they can move with respect to the circumferential direction of the tensioning element .
• the lower body of the transverse elements is provided with what is known as a tilted edge, namely a generally slightly rounded transition between a top side of the transverse element of virtually constant thickness and a tapering underside which extends in the front or rear surface between the flanks.
• the tilted edge permits a tilting or rolling movement between adjacent transverse elements, with the drive belt following a curved path over its circumferential direction, as is necessary at the location of the pulleys.
• the Van Doorne push belt includes a number of the said transverse elements which is such that virtually the entire circumference of the tensioning element is filled, with a virtually continuous series of transverse elements clamped between the sheaves of the two pulleys, so that a frictional force can be transmitted between them. Partly as a result of this, a driving power can be transmitted between the pulleys of the transmission, by virtue of the transverse elements advancing one another, with support and guidance from the tensioning element .
• Drive belts of this type are in widespread use in a transmission with two pulleys, each provided with two sheaves in the form of straight truncated cones, which together form a V-shaped groove in which the drive belt is held and on which at least one sheave is held such that it can move in the axial direction with respect to the respective other or fixed sheave and a pulley axle of the pulley, in order to allow a running radius of the drive belt between the pulley sheaves and therefore the transmission ratio of the transmission, which latter is given by the quotient of the running radii of the drive belt at the location of the two pulleys, to be changed.
• spherical or convex means that the straight cone shape of the surface of a pulley sheave is replaced by a cone shape which is slightly convexly curved at least in the radial direction.
• the 1 cone surface is also referred to as the drive belt running surface, or the running surface for short, of a pulley sheave.
• the known Van Doorne push belt has long been provided and used with straight flanks
• the push belt, or at least the transverse elements thereof to be provided with a flank which is curved at least in the radial or height direction, in order to allow it to optimally interact with the spherical shape in the running surface of the pulleys, as described for example in ⁇ the abovementioned German Patent Publication.
• each transverse element for example the rear surface
• the respective other main surface thereof for example the front surface
• the projection of one transverse element in each case being received in the recess in. an adjacent transverse element.
• the size of the projection which is to be understood as meaning its cross section, should in this case be sufficient to be able to absorb the couple of forces between the pushing force and the frictional forces without the projection breaking off or being damaged in some other way.
• a larger projection is more difficult to produce and moreover means that other dimensions of the transverse element also have to be correspondingly larger, which has an adverse effect both on the consumption of material in the transverse elements and on the total weight of the drive belt .
• Figure 1 diagrammaticalIy depicts a cross section taken transversely to the axles of a continuously variable transmission provided with two pulleys and a drive belt according to the prior art
• Figure 2 shows a cross section with a spherically shaped running surface of the pulley in accordance with Figure 1, as seen in the tangential direction,
• Figure 3 shows a front view of a transverse element of the drive belt according to the invention, as seen in the direction of movement or circumferential direction of the drive belt,
• Figure 4 shows a side view of the transverse element from Figure 3
• Figure 5 shows a more detailed view of the primary pulley from Figure 1.
• FIG. 1 diagrammaticalIy depicts a cross section through a continuously variable transmission 1 in accordance with the prior art.
• the known transmission 1 comprises a primary pulley 2, which can be driven by an engine (not shown) , with a primary couple (of forces) Tp, and a secondary pulley 3 , which can drive a load (not shown) , with a secondary couple Ts.
• Both pulleys 2, 3 are provided with a substantially conical pulley sheath which is fixedly secured to the respective pulley axle and with a likewise substantially conical pulley sheave which can be displaced in the axial direction with respect to the said axle.
• a drive belt 10 is clamped between the pulley sheaves of the two pulleys 2, 3, this drive belt in each case describing a path which is substantially in the form of a segment of a circle, i.e. running radius R.
• a mechanical power can be transmitted between the two pulley axles with the aid of friction between the drive belt 10 and the pulleys 2, 3, the transmission ratio of the transmission 1 being given by the quotient of the running radii Rp and Rs of the drive belt at the location of the primary and secondary pulleys 2 and 3, respectively.
• FIG. 2 shows a cross section through a pulley sheave 43 of this type, the conical surface or drive belt running surface of which, referred to as the running surface 40 for short, has a slightly convexly curved conical shape.
• a tangent line 41 on the said running surface forms an acute angle ⁇ with a line 42 which runs purely in the radial direction.
• this pulley angle ⁇ increases at an increasing radial position from a possible point of contact P between the pulley sheave 43 and the drive belt 10, i.e. the running radius Rp, Rs thereof.
• FIG. 3 One example of a type of drive belt 10 which is in widespread use, what is known as the push belt 10, is shown in cross section in Figure 3.
• This push belt 10 is characterized, inter alia, by a series of transverse elements 11, lateral sides or flanks 16 of which are intended for contact with the sheaves 43 of the pulleys 2, 3 of the transmission 1.
• the push belt 10 also comprises a continuous tensioning element 12, which in this example is formed by two groups of a number of nested, flat, relatively thin rings made from metal .
• the transverse elements 11 are in this case held in the push belt IQ such that they can move with respect to the circumferential direction of the tensioning element 12.
• the transverse element is also provided, on a main surface thereof, with a protuberance 13 in the circumferential direction of the drive belt 10, i.e. projection 13, and with a recess 14 arranged in an opposite main surface of the element 11.
• the projection 13 and recess 14 serve to stabilize adjacent transverse elements 11 with respect to one another. More particularly, the interaction between the projection 13 and the recess 14 prevents and/or limits movement of adjacent transverse elements 11 with respect to one another in an imaginary plane perpendicular to the circumferential direction of the drive belt 10, with the result that a rotational or tilting movement of the element 11 about an axially oriented axis is also limited.
• the transverse elements 11 are also provided with what is known as a tilting edge 17, namely a generally slightly rounded transition between a top side 18 of the transverse element 11 of virtually constant thickness and an at least effectively tapering underside 15, which extends in the front or rear surface between the flanks 16.
• the tilting edge 17 permits a tilting or rolling movement between adjacent transverse elements 11 in the drive belt 10, so that the latter can follow a circumferentially curved path at the location of the pulleys 2, 3.
• the abovementioned running radius Rp, Rs of the drive belt 10 is defined as the radial position of the tilting edge 17 of the transverse elements 11.
• flanks 16 of the transverse elements 11 are also curved in the radial direction, a flank 16, at the location of a possible contact point P with the pulley sheave 43, being oriented at what is known as a flank angle ⁇ with respect to the radial direction.
• a region of the flank angle ⁇ which is defined by the flank in this case obviously at least corresponds to the region of the pulley angle ⁇ defined by the pulley sheaves, but varies in the opposite direction (i.e. the flank angle ⁇ decreases in the radially outward direction) .
• the transverse elements 11 are clamped between the sheaves 43 of the two pulleys 2, 3 and follow the direction of rotation M of these pulleys 2, 3, with a rotation and couple Tp, Ts being transmitted between the said pulley axles with the aid of friction.
• a pushing force Fd is built up between the transverse elements 11 on the primary pulley 2 at the location of the tilting edge 17, the level of which pushing force is dependent on the primary couple T and the running radius Rp of the drive belt at the location of the said primary pulley 2.
• the transverse elements 11 advance one another in the circumferential direction of the drive belt 10, towards the secondary pulley 3, guided by the tensioning element 12. Frictional contact between the transverse elements 11 and the sheaves 43 of the secondary pulley 3 then at least virtually completely breaks down the abovementioned pushing force Fd.
• a separate transverse element 11 is in the process subject to a pushing force Fd directed forwards (i.e. in the direction of rotation M indicated in Figure 4) from a transverse element 11 located behind it, as seen in the direction of rotation M, and itself exerts a pushing force Fd on a transverse element 11 located in front of it, as seen in the direction of rotation M, the difference ⁇ Fd between these two pushing forces Fd amounting to the resultant pushing force ⁇ Fd acting on the said separate transverse element 11 (illustrated in Figure 4 by the arrow ⁇ Fd) , which resultant pushing force thus acts on the tilting edge 17 at the level of the latter.
• This resultant pushing force ⁇ Fd can arise by virtue of the transverse element 11 being clamped between the sheaves 43 of the respective pulley 2, 3, so that a frictional force Fw
• the transverse element 11 will tend to tilt under the influence of the resultant pushing force ⁇ Fd which acts at the level of the tilting edge 17 and represents a moment of force with respect to the associated contact point P, Pl or P2 on the flanks 16 of the transverse elements 11 through which the imaginary axis of rotation of the transverse elements 11 passes.
• the resultant pushing force ⁇ Fd) increases with a decreasing primary running radius Rp, on account of the number of transverse elements 11 clamped between the pulley sheaves 43 of the primary pulley 2 then decreasing.
• Rp primary running radius
• the present invention proposes that the transmission 1 be designed in such a manner that at the smallest running radius Rp on the primary pulley 2 the radial position of the tilting edge 17 is located at a very short radial distance from the point of contact Pl between the pulley sheaves 43 and the flanks 16, i.e. at this smallest running radius Rp the resulting pushing force ⁇ Fd acts at least virtually at the level of the point of engagement of the frictional force Fw on the respective transverse elements 11.
• the point of contact Pl which has just been mentioned is located at least at a certain distance radially outside the tilting edge 17.
• a relatively low frictional force Fr at least compared to the resultant pushing force ⁇ Fd, between the tensioning element 12 and the transverse elements 11, which occurs when the transmission 1 is operating, is also taken into account in this more detailed consideration.
• this frictional force Fr which has just been mentioned is a factor in determining the moment of force which is exerted on a transverse element 11 with respect to the imaginary axis of rotation passing through the respective points of contact P, Pl or P2 on the flanks 16 thereof.
• the frictional force Fr which has just been mentioned, at least in the abovementioned situation of the smallest possible running radius Rp, acts on the primary pulley 2 in the same direction as the resultant pushing force ⁇ Fd, so that the said moment of force can then be eliminated or at least greatly reduced, by positioning the point of engagement of the frictional force Fw exerted by the pulley sheaves 43 on the transverse element 11, i.e. the radial position of the point of contact Pl, between the tilting edge 17 and the point of engagement of the frictional force Fr exerted by the tensioning element 12 on the transverse element 11.

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