TOOTHED BELT

• US 20110237374A1
• Filed: 03/17/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Company
• Original Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Company
• Inventors: NAKAO, Hideyuki, KANAMORI, Masaru, TOMOBUCHI, Masato
• Application Number:
  US13/050,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20110237374A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 474/205
• CPC Class Codes: C08K 5/098 Metal salts of carboxylic acids
• CPC Class Codes: C08K 7/08 Oxygen-containing compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 13/00 Compositions of rubbers containing carboxyl groups
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 9/02 Copolymers with acrylonitrile
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 1/08 with reinforcement bonded by the rubber
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 1/28 with a contact surface of special shape, e.g. toothed

Abstract

A toothed belt includes: a belt main body in which a plurality of cords are arranged side by side in a widthwise direction of a rubber layer; a plurality of teeth portions formed at one surface of the belt main body; and a tooth cloth covering surfaces of the teeth portions. A cloth base material is obtained by impregnating a surface layer rubber composition into an original canvas and by forming a surface layer, and an adhesion layer rubber composition is attached to one surface of the cloth base material to form an adhesion layer, thus forming the tooth cloth. The rubber layer contains: HNBR including HNBR in which a Mooney viscosity at 100° C. is in a range of from 100 to 160; and a polymer alloy obtained by finely dispersing zinc methacrylate in HNBR. The rubber layer and rubber compositions preferably contain hydrogenated carboxyl NBR.

Claims

1. A toothed belt comprising:

a belt main body having a rubber layer which contains hydrogenated nitrile rubber, and a polymer alloy obtained by finely dispersing zinc methacrylate in a same type or different type of the hydrogenated nitrile rubber;

a plurality of teeth portions formed at least at one surface of the rubber layer; and

a tooth cloth in which an adhesion layer is formed at one surface of a cloth base material obtained by impregnating a surface layer rubber composition which contains hydrogenated nitrile rubber into a canvas, the tooth cloth being adhered to the belt main body so as to cover the teeth portions,

wherein the rubber layer contains the hydrogenated nitrile rubber in which a Mooney viscosity at 100°

C. is in a range of from 100 to 160.

2. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the rubber layer has a rubber hardness Hs of 95 or more, a 100% modulus of 18 MPa or more in a vulcanized rubber test, and a rubber rupture strength of 36 MPa or more.

3. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the rubber layer contains the hydrogenated nitrile rubber, in which a Mooney viscosity at 100°

C. is in a range of from 100 to 160, in a range of from 5 to 20 mass percentage with respect to the total amount of the rubber layer.

4. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the rubber layer further contains hydrogenated carboxyl nitrile rubber.

5. The toothed belt according to claim 2, wherein the rubber layer further contains hydrogenated carboxyl nitrile rubber.

6. The toothed belt according to claim 4, wherein the rubber layer contains the hydrogenated carboxyl nitrile rubber in a range of from 1 to 30 mass percentage with respect to the total amount the rubber layer.

7. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the rubber layer contains low-binding acrylonitrile content hydrogenated nitrile rubber in which the content of binding acrylonitrile is in a range of from 15 to 25 mass percentage.

8. The toothed belt according to claim 2, wherein the rubber layer contains low-binding acrylonitrile content hydrogenated nitrile rubber in which the content of binding acrylonitrile is in a range of from 15 to 25 mass percentage.

9. The toothed belt according to claim 7, wherein the rubber layer contains the low-binding acrylonitrile content hydrogenated nitrile rubber in a range of from 10 to 70 mass percentage with respect to the total amount of rubber components of the rubber layer.

10. The toothed belt according to claim 7, wherein the rubber layer contains hydrogenated nitrile rubber in which the content of binding acrylonitrile is in a range of from 35 to 50 mass percentage and a mass ratio of this hydrogenated nitrile rubber and the low-binding acrylonitrile content hydrogenated nitrile rubber is in a range of from 15:

85 to 80;

20.

11. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the surface layer rubber composition of the tooth cloth contains hydrogenated carboxyl nitrile rubber.

12. The toothed belt according to claim 2, wherein the surface layer rubber composition of the tooth cloth contains hydrogenated carboxyl nitrile rubber.

13. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the adhesion layer of the tooth cloth contains hydrogenated carboxyl nitrile rubber.

14. The toothed belt according to claim 2, wherein the adhesion layer of the tooth cloth contains hydrogenated carboxyl nitrile rubber.

15. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the surface layer rubber composition contains polytetrafluoroethylene.

16. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the surface layer rubber composition contains conductive zinc oxide.

17. The toothed belt according to claim 2, wherein the surface layer rubber composition contains conductive zinc oxide.

18. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the adhesion layer contains conductive carbon.

19. The toothed belt according to claim 2, wherein the adhesion layer contains conductive carbon.

20. The toothed belt according to claim 1, wherein the belt main body has a cord in which a plurality of strands made of primarily-twisted glass fibers are disposed around a fiber core made of carbon fibers, and the fiber core and strands are finally twisted.