Belt type continuously variable transmission

• US 6,015,359 A
• Filed: 03/16/1998
• Issued: 01/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Kunii, Rikiya
• Primary Examiner(s): Graysay, Tamara L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Charles, Marcus
• Application Number:
  US09/039,267
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: 474/91, 474/28, 474/18
• US Class Current: 474/18
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 57/0489 with endless flexible members, e.g. belt CVTs
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/662 with endless flexible members

Abstract

In a belt type continuously variable transmission, the oil for the canceler oil chamber and the oil for lubricating the endless belt are commonly used to reduce the required amount of oil to be supplied. The gear shift control oil is supplied to the pulley oil chamber of the driven pulley mounted on the output shaft of the belt type continuously variable transmission through a feed pipe, oil holes of a plug, an oil groove, oil holes of the output shaft and oil holes of the movable pulley half. The lubricating oil supplied to a first in-shaft oil chamber of the output shaft is further supplied through the oil holes of the output shaft to the canceler oil chamber of the driven pulley and also from the first in-shaft oil chamber through a throttle in the plug, the second in-shaft oil chamber and the oil holes of the output shaft to the endless belt.

Claims

1. A continuously variable transmission, comprising:

an input shaft;

an output shaft;

a drive pulley mounted on said input shaft, the drive pulley having a stationary pulley half and a movable pulley half, wherein said drive pulley has a variable groove width;

a drive pulley mounted on said output shaft, the drive pulley having a stationary pulley half and a movable pulley half, wherein said drive pulley has a variable groove width;

an endless belt reeved around said drive pulley and said driven pulley;

pulley oil chambers to activate said movable pulley halves, respectively;

canceler oil chambers formed adjacent to said pulley oil chambers, respectively;

a first oil path and a second oil path formed inside at least one of said input shaft and said output shaft, the first oil path supplying oil to said pulley oil chamber of said pulley supported on said at least one of said input shaft and said output shaft, and the second oil path supplying oil to said canceler oil chamber of said pulley;

a throttle; and

at least one oil path open end, wherein the second oil path communicates with said at least one oil path open through said throttle to lubricate said endless belt, with the oil that is discharged from said canceler oil chamber of said pulley through said at least one oil path open end by a reduction in volume of said canceler oil chamber of said pulley.

2. A continuously variable transmission according to claim 1, including an oil transfer member fitted in an inner circumference of said at least one of said input shaft and said output shaft and a feed pipe connected at an end thereof to said oil transfer member to form the first oil path, and wherein said oil transfer member includes said throttle of the second oil path.

3. A continuously variable transmission comprising:

an input shaft;

an output shaft, wherein said output shaft has first and second in-shaft oil chambers;

a drive pulley mounted on said input shaft, the drive pulley having a stationary pulley half and a movable pulley half, wherein said drive pulley has a variable groove width;

a drive pulley mounted on said output shaft, the driven pulley having a stationary pulley half and a movable pulley half, wherein said driven pulley has a variable groove width;

an endless belt reeved around said drive pulley and said driven pulley;

pulley oil chambers to activate said movable pulley halves;

canceler oil chambers formed adjacent to said pulley oil chambers;

a first oil path and a second oil path formed inside said output shaft, the first oil path supplying oil to said pulley oil chamber of said driven pulley supported on said output shaft, and the second oil path supplying oil to said canceler oil chamber of said driven pulley;

a throttle extending between the first and second in-shaft oil chambers; and

at least one oil path open end extending from said second in-shaft oil chamber to a space between said stationary pulley half and said movable pulley half, wherein the second oil path communicates with the at least one oil path open end to lubricate said endless belt, in a space between said stationary pulley half and said movable pulley half, with the oil that is discharged from said canceler oil chamber of said driven pulley through said at least one oil path open end by a reduction in volume of said canceler oil chamber of said driven pulley.

4. A continuously variable transmission according to claim 3, including an oil transfer member fitted in an inner circumference of the output shaft between the first and second in-shaft oil chambers and a feed pipe connected to said oil transfer member to form the first oil path, and wherein said oil transfer member includes said throttle of the second oil path.

5. A continuously variable transmission according to claim 4, including an oil path connecting said feed pipe and said pulley oil chamber.

6. A continuously variable transmission according to claim 5, including an oil path connecting said feed pipe and said pulley oil chamber includes a portion passing through said oil transfer member.