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Plate-link chain for a continuously variable transmission

US7686722B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG · DE

Inventors

Markus Baumann · Ergolding, DE
Michael Pichura · Bogen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 30, 2006
Grant date	Mar 30, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 14, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF16G5/18
WIPO fieldMechanical elements
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A plate-link chain for a belt-driven conical-pulley transmission. The chain has a large number of link plates that are articulatingly connected with each other by rocker members, which link plates are positioned one behind the other and are offset from each other transversely relative to the longitudinal direction of the plate-link chain, and also partially overlap each other. The chain has a plurality of link plates of two different lengths in the longitudinal direction of the chain, with openings to receive the rocker members. The arrangement of the link plates in the longitudinal direction of the chain is such that a long link plate is followed by a short link plate.

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