BELT TYPE CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION DEVICE

• US 20150011344A1
• Filed: 07/03/2014
• Published: 01/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd. (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd. (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tsukamoto, Michio, Iwaki, Koji, EBIHARA, TOMOYUKI, Kamada, Tatsuya
• Application Number:
  US14/323,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20150011344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 474/8
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 55/56 of which the bearing parts are relatively axially adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 63/062 electric or electro-mechanical actuating means
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 9/18 only one flange of each pulley being adjustable

Abstract

A belt type continuously variable transmission device includes an actuator that moves a moveable sheave member of a drive pulley which is a one-side pulley in an axial direction. The actuator includes a moveable feed member, a gear case, and an electric motor. The moveable feed member includes an inner tube section in which a moveable-side feed screw is provided, an outer tube section in which an outer gear is provided, and a lid section. The gear case has a fixed tube section in which a fixed-side feed screw is provided, and an outer cover. The electric motor drives a motor-side gear that intermeshes with the outer gear. The outer cover has an opening into which the outer tube section is inserted and that proximately opposes an outer circumferential surface of the outer tube section.

Claims

1. A belt type continuously variable transmission device comprising:

a one-side pulley;

an other-side pulley;

a belt wound around the one-side pulley and the other-side pulley; and

an actuator,

the one-side pulley including a moveable sheave member placed to be moveable relatively in an axial direction with respect to a fixed sheave fixed on a rotational shaft and that pinches the belt between the moveable sheave member and the fixed sheave, and

the actuator moving the moveable sheave member in the axial direction, wherein

the actuator comprises;

a moveable feed member having an inner tube section supported to be rotatable around a center of the rotational shaft on a radially outer side of the moveable sheave member and in which a moveable-side feed screw is provided, an outer tube section placed around the inner tube section and in which an outer gear is provided on a radially outer side, and a lid section that connects the inner tube section and the outer tube section;

a gear case having a fixed tube section in which a fixed-side feed screw that screw-engages the moveable-side feed screw is provided, and an outer cover integrally provided on the fixed tube section, in which an opening into which the outer tube section is inserted is formed, and that houses the outer gear; and

an electric motor that drives a motor-side gear that intermeshes with the outer gear, and

the opening proximately opposes an outer circumferential surface on the side of the one-side pulley in relation to the outer gear on the outer tube section, in relation to the axial direction of the rotational shaft.

4. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a sealing member that is locked with one of an outer circumferential surface on the outer tube section on the side of the one-side pulley in relation to the outer gear in relation to the axial direction of the rotational shaft and an inner circumferential surface of the opening, and slides and contacts the other of the outer circumferential surface of the outer tube section and the inner circumferential surface of the opening.

5. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 1, wherein

the fixed tube section is provided on a radially outer side of the inner tube section,

the gear case includes a second fixed tube section provided concentrically with the fixed tube section on a radially inner side of the fixed tube section and having a support section which supports a bearing between the second fixed tube section and the rotational shaft on the side of the inner circumferential surface, and

the second fixed tube section contacts or opposes the inner circumferential surface of the inner tube section, with a small gap there between, over the entirety of a moveable range of the inner tube section in the axial direction.

6. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 1, further comprising

a torque transmitting member having a shaft fixing section fixed on a radially outer side of the rotational shaft, a support shaft protruding to a radially outer side of the shaft fixing section, and a roller rotatably supported on the support shaft, wherein

the moveable sheave member includes a plurality of claw sections placed around the rotational shaft, that protrude to the side of the actuator, and that guide the roller between inner surfaces in a circumferential direction that oppose each other, and

during rotation of the rotational shaft, the roller presses the inner surface in the circumferential direction of the claw section in the rotational direction of the rotational shaft.

7. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 1, further comprising

an urging force generation member provided between the gear case and the moveable feed member and that urges the moveable feed member toward the one-side pulley.

8. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 1, further comprising

a fixed stay that fixes the gear case on a separate member, and that is placed, on the belt bridged over a drive pulley and a driven pulley, to penetrate through a space that becomes a belt inside region in all setting states of a belt position.

9. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 1, wherein

when the one-side pulley and the other-side pulley are viewed in the axial direction, the electric motor is placed in a rectangular region formed by a first straight line and a second straight line connecting maximum inscribed circles on the outer circumferential surfaces of the pulleys, a third straight line connecting one end of the first straight line and one end of the second straight line, and a fourth straight line connecting the other ends of the first straight line and the second straight line.

2. A belt type continuously variable transmission device, comprising:

a one-side pulley;

an other-side pulley;

a belt wound around the one-side pulley and the other-side pulley; and

an actuator,

the one-side pulley including a moveable sheave member placed to be moveable relatively in an axial direction with respect to a fixed sheave fixed on a rotational shaft and that pinches the belt between the moveable sheave member and the fixed sheave, and

the actuator moving the moveable sheave member in the axial direction, wherein

the actuator comprises;

a moveable feed member having an inner tube section supported to be rotatable around a center of the rotational shaft on a radially outer side of the moveable sheave member and in which a moveable-side feed screw is provided, an outer tube section placed around the inner tube section and in which an outer gear is provided on a radially outer side, and a lid section that connects the inner tube section and the outer tube section;

a gear case having a fixed tube section in which a fixed-side feed screw that screw-engages the moveable-side feed screw is provided, and an outer cover integrally provided on the fixed tube section, the gear case being provided in the side of the moveable feed member in relation to the belt in the axial direction of the rotational shaft; and

an electric motor having a motor case fixed on the gear case and that drives a motor-side gear that intermeshes with the outer gear, and

the outer cover houses the outer gear.

3. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 2, wherein

the gear case includes a one-side case element and an other-side case element branched along the direction of the rotational shaft and coupled to each other by a fastening unit.

10. A belt type continuously variable transmission device comprising:

a one-side pulley;

an other-side pulley;

a belt wound around the one-side pulley and the other-side pulley; and

an actuator,

the one-side pulley including a moveable sheave member placed to be moveable relatively in an axial direction with respect to a fixed sheave fixed on a rotational shaft and that pinches the belt between the moveable sheave member and the fixed sheave, and

the actuator moving the moveable sheave member in the axial direction, wherein

the moveable sheave member comprises a moveable tube section provided on a side opposite to a belt engagement surface that engages with the belt, in an axial direction,

the actuator comprises a moveable feed screw member which is supported in a manner to be rotatable around a center of a rotational shaft via a bearing on an outer circumferential side of the moveable tube section in a state where movement in the axial direction with respect to the moveable sheave member is blocked, and which has a moveable-side feed screw, an electric motor which rotationally drives the moveable feed screw member, and a case having a fixed-side feed screw which screw-engages the moveable-side feed screw, and

at least a part of the moveable-side feed screw is at a position different from the bearing in the axial direction and at the same position as the bearing in a radial direction of the rotational shaft.

11. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 10, wherein

the moveable sheave member comprises a moveable sheave body having a belt engagement surface which engages the belt, and

the bearing is placed in the axial direction between an end, on a side of the moveable sheave body, of the moveable-side feed screw and the moveable sheave body.

12. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 10, wherein the case comprises an air intake port for taking air from an outside of the case into an inside of the case, and an air discharge port through which the air is discharged from the inside of the case.

13. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 12, wherein the moveable sheave member or the fixed sheave has a suction fan unit which is provided on a side opposite to the belt engagement surface in the axial direction, and which takes in the air in the axial direction when the moveable sheave member or the fixed sheave rotates and sends the air toward an outer circumference side.

14. The belt type continuously variable transmission device according to claim 10, wherein

the moveable feed screw member has an outer gear provided on an outer circumferential surface, and

the electric motor rotationally drives the moveable feed screw member via a motor-side gear which intermeshes with the outer gear.

15. A belt type continuously variable transmission device comprising:

a one-side pulley;

an other-side pulley;

a belt wound around the one-side pulley and the other-side pulley; and

an actuator,

the one-side pulley including a moveable sheave member placed to be moveable relatively in an axial direction with respect to a fixed sheave fixed on a rotational shaft and that pinches the belt between the moveable sheave member and the fixed sheave, and

the actuator moving the moveable sheave member in the axial direction, wherein

the moveable sheave member comprises a moveable sheave body having a belt engagement surface which engages with the belt, and a moveable tube section provided on a side opposite to the belt engagement surface in the axial direction,

the actuator comprises a moveable feed screw member which is supported in a manner to be rotatable around a center of a rotational shaft via a bearing on an outer circumferential side of the moveable tube section and which has a moveable-side feed screw, an electric motor which rotationally drives the moveable feed screw member, and a case having a fixed-side feed screw which screw-engages with the moveable-side feed screw, and

the bearing is placed in the axial direction between an end, on the side of the moveable sheave body, of the moveable-side feed screw and the moveable sheave body.