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Tensioning device

US4702727A · kind A · utility

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14Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateAug 8, 1986
Grant dateOct 27, 1987
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 8, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF16H2007/088
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A tensioning device for a belt drive, especially for a V-belt drive for the drive of aggregates of an engine such as an internal combustion engine, with a fixed member and a member rotatable with respect thereto and carrying a tensioning roller resting against a belt, whereby a spring as well as a damping device having a damping force dependent on the operating condition which presses the tensioning roller against the belt, acts between the fixed and the rotatable part. In order to prevent a belt fluttering and a belt slippage in a defined manner, an additional damping device is provided between the rotatable and the fixed member or the engine which is controllable as a function of one or several operating parameters of the belt drive and/or of the engine and is operable only at certain values of these operating parameters.

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