Traction Mechanism Drive, Especially Belt Drive For Secondary Units of a Combustion Engine

• US 20080139354A1
• Filed: 02/01/2006
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Schaeffler KG (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Schaeffler KG (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Bogner, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/911,366
• Publication Number:
  US 20080139354A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 474/134
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 67/06 driven by means of chains, belts, or like endless members
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2007/0874 Two or more finally actuated members

Abstract

A belt drive including a pulley (2) of a crankshaft (KW), a pulley (4) of the starter generator (SG), a first tensioning system (6) having a tension lever arm (7) and a tension roller (8), and a second tensioning system (9) including a tension lever arm (10) and a tension roller (11). The first tension roller (8) is allocated to a starter related loose run (13′) while the second tension roller (11) is assigned to a drive-related loose run (14). The change in position of the second tension roller (11) is limited during a starting operation by disposing the second tensioning system (9) in such a way that the second tension roller (11) in the starter related traction run branches (14a′, 14b′) only to the point where the second tension lever arm (10) is located in a type if dead center position nearly parallel to a resulting force of the two starter related traction run branches (14a′, 14b′).

Claims

1. Traction mechanism drive including a belt drive for secondary units of a combustion engine, comprising a pulley of a crankshaft KW and a pulley of a starter generator SG and also a first tensioning system, which has a first tension lever arm and a first tension roller, as well as with a second tensioning system, which has a second tension lever arm and a second tension roller, wherein the first tension roller is in pressure contact directly after a pulley of an air conditioning system compressor AC with a starter-related loose run over a small belt contact and the second tension roller is in pressure contact directly after the pulley of the crankshaft KW with a drive-related loose run over a belt contact of ca. 90°

and the drive-related loose run works in a starting mode as a tensioned run and a change in position of the second tension roller caused by the change to the tensioned run is limited, the second tensioning system is arranged such that the second tension roller for a starter-related tensioned run can be moved out of the belt drive due to the resulting force of two starter-related tensioned run branches only until the second tension lever arm is located in a type of “

dead-center position”

nearly parallel to a resulting force of the two starter-related tensioned run branches.

2. Traction mechanism drive according to claim 1, wherein the second tensioning system is produced at least partially using an aluminum squeeze casting or rheocasting method or from steel investment casting.

3. Traction mechanism drive according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the two tensioning systems is pre-tensioned and cottered for assembly and that at least a non-cottered one of the tensioning systems has a corresponding tool holder, which is used for tensioning the system out of the belt drive.

4. Traction mechanism drive according to claim 3, wherein the two tensioning systems for the generator and the starting mode have a separate design adapted to a corresponding operating state.