Endless flexible torque-transmitting device

US6346058B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• LuK Getriebe-Systeme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• André Linnenbrügger · Bogen, DE
• Wolfgang Oberle · Nassau (Lahn), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 1999
• Grant date: Feb 12, 2002
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16G5/18
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A flexible torque-transmitting device (1) such as a chain belt that runs in an endless loop around a first and second pair of conical disks in a continuously variable transmission of a motor vehicle includes means to keep the transverse force-transfer elements (2a, 2b) from becoming dislodged out of their seating positions in the lengthwise-running links (3a, 3b, 3c) of the chain belt.