Belt type continuously variable transmission

• US 7,288,043 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2005
• Issued: 10/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kimura, Hiroaki, Ibaraki, Ryuji, Nomasa, Hitoshi, Shioiri, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; David D.
• Application Number:
  US11/099,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20050250606A1
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• Field of Search: 475/210, 192/208, 474/12, 474/16, 474/17, 474/18, 474/19, 474/21, 474/23, 474/28, 464/28, 464/180
• US Class Current: 475/210
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 37/022 the toothed gearing having orbital motion
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 63/065 hydraulic actuating means
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 9/125 characterised by means for controlling the geometrical interrelationship of pulleys and the endless flexible member, e.g. belt alignment or position of the resulting axial pulley force in the plane perpendicular to the pulley axis

Abstract

A belt type continuously variable transmission including a primary pulley; a secondary pulley; a belt which is looped over the primary pulley and the secondary pulley; a reduction gear unit that transmits torque, which has been output from an internal combustion engine and then transmitted to a secondary shaft, to a final reduction gear unit that is provided so as to be coaxial with the secondary shaft of the secondary pulley; and a damper oil chamber which is provided between the secondary shaft and an input shaft of the reduction gear unit. A thrust force generated in the reduction gear unit due to an input of a driving force is transmitted to a hydraulic fluid in a damper oil chamber, and then absorbed. Therefore, a displacement of a relative position between the primary pulley and the secondary pulley is suppressed.

Claims

1. A belt type continuously variable transmission, comprising:

an input side pulley which includes an input side pulley shaft to which a driving force from a drive source is transmitted, an input side movable sheave that slides on the input side pulley shaft in an axial direction of the input side pulley shaft, and an input side fixed sheave that faces the input side movable sheave in the axial direction such that an input side groove is formed between the input side fixed sheave and the input side movable sheave;

an output side pulley which includes an output side pulley shaft that is provided in parallel with the input side pulley shaft, an output side movable sheave that slides on the output side pulley shaft in an axial direction of the output side pulley shaft, and an output side fixed sheave that faces the output side movable sheave in the axial direction such that an output side groove is formed between the output side fixed sheave and the output side movable sheave;

a belt which is looped over the input side groove and the output side groove;

a planetary gear set which transmits the driving force transmitted from the output side pulley to a differential gear unit that is provided so as to be coaxial with the output side pulley shaft; and

a damper device which is provided between the output side pulley and the planetary gear set,

wherein the planetary gear set includes an input shaft to which the driving force transmitted from the output side pulley is transmitted, and which is slidable on an axis of the output side pulley shaft in the axial direction of the output side pulley shaft, and the damper device is provided between the output side pulley shaft and the input shaft, and wherein the damper device is a damper oil chamber whose volume changes as the input shaft slides on the axis of the output side pulley shaft in the axial direction of the output side pulley shaft.

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

the damper device is provided between the output side pulley shaft and the input shaft, and an intermediate member forms a part of the damper device.

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

the planetary gear set is formed of multiple helical gears meshed with each other.

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

the damper oil chamber is a space formed by a protruding portion that is formed at an end portion of the output side pulley shaft and that protrudes outward in a radial direction of the output side pulley shaft, and a protruding portion that is formed at an end portion of the input shaft to which the driving force from the damper device is transmitted and that protrudes outward in a radial direction of the input shaft.

5. The belt type continuously variable transmission according to claim 4, wherein

the input shaft is a hollow shaft, a sun gear is formed on the input shaft at an end portion on a side of the planetary gear set, and the sun gear is meshed with pinions of the planetary gear set.

6. The belt type continuously variable transmission according to claim 4, wherein

a hydraulic fluid pressure supplied, through the output side pulley shaft, to an output side oil chamber that is formed by a back surface of the output side movable sheave, which is on an opposite side of another surface of the output side movable sheave, the other surface facing the output side fixed sheave, and an output side partition fixed to the output side pulley shaft is equal to a hydraulic fluid pressure supplied to the damper oil chamber through the output side pulley shaft.

7. The belt type continuously variable transmission according to claim 4, wherein

a spline portion is formed in each of the protruding portion of the output side pulley shaft and the protruding portion of the input shaft, and the protruding portions are in splined engagement, whereby the output side pulley shaft and the input shaft are slidable with respect to each other in the axial direction.

8. The belt type continuously variable transmission according to claim 7, wherein

sealing means is provided at a slide portion at which the protruding portion of the output side pulley shaft and the protruding portion of the input shaft slide with respect to each other.

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

the damper oil chamber is formed by a protruding portion that is formed at an end portion of the output side pulley shaft and that protrudes outward in a radial direction of the output side pulley shaft, a protruding portion that is formed at an end portion of the input shaft and that protrudes outward in a radial direction of the input shaft, and the intermediate member.

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

the input shaft is a hollow shaft, a sun gear is formed on the input shaft at an end portion on a side of the planetary gear set, and the sun gear is meshed with pinions of the planetary gear set.

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

a hydraulic fluid pressure is supplied, through the damper oil chamber, to an output side oil chamber that is formed by a back surface of the output side movable sheave, which is on an opposite side of another surface of the output side movable sheave, the other surface facing the output side fixed sheave, and a surface of the intermediate member, which faces the output side movable sheave.

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

a spline portion is formed in each of a protruding portion of the intermediate member and the protruding portion of the input shaft, and the protruding portions are in splined engagement, whereby the intermediate member and the input shaft are slidable with respect to each other in the axial direction.

13. The belt type continuously variable transmission according to claim 12, wherein

sealing means is provided at a slide portion at which the protruding portion of the intermediate member and the protruding portion of the input shaft slide with respect to each other.

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

the planetary gear set includes a sun gear, pinions meshed with the sun gear, a carrier which rotatably supports the pinions, and a ring gear which is fixed to a case;

the sun gear is formed at an end portion of an input shaft that is a hollow shaft to which a driving force from the damper device is transmitted;

the carrier is formed integrally with a differential case of the differential gear unit; and

one of two output shafts of the differential gear unit penetrates an axis of the hollow input shaft.

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

the input side pulley shaft is coupled with a forward/reverse changing mechanism which changes a direction of rotation input in the belt type continuously variable transmission between a normal rotational direction and a reverse rotational direction, and the forward/reverse changing mechanism is coupled with a torque converter.

16. The belt type continuously variable transmission according to claim 15, wherein

the driving force from the drive source is transmitted to the differential gear unit via the toque converter, the forward/reverse changing mechanism, the input side pulley and the output side pulley of the belt type continuously variable transmission, and the planetary gear set.

17. A belt type continuously variable transmission, comprising:

an input side pulley which includes an input side pulley shaft to which a driving force from a drive source is transmitted, an input side movable sheave that slides on the input side pulley shaft in an axial direction of the input side pulley shaft, and an input side fixed sheave that faces the input side movable sheave in the axial direction such that an input side groove is formed between the input side fixed sheave and the input side movable sheave;

an output side pulley which includes an output side pulley shaft that is provided in parallel with the input side pulley shaft, an output side movable sheave that slides on the output side pulley shaft in an axial direction of the output side pulley shaft, and an output side fixed sheave that faces the output side movable sheave in the axial direction such that an output side groove is formed between the output side fixed sheave and the output side movable sheave;

a belt which is looped over the input side groove and the output side groove;

a planetary gear set which transmits the driving force transmitted from the output side pulley to a differential gear unit that is provided so as to be coaxial with the output side pulley shaft; and

damper means provided between the output side pulley and the planetary gear set,

wherein the planetary gear set includes an input shaft to which the driving force transmitted from the output side pulley is transmitted, and which is slidable on an axis of the output side pulley shaft in the axial direction of the output side pulley shaft, and the damper means is provided between the output side pulley shaft and the input shaft, and wherein the damper means is a damper oil chamber whose volume changes as the input shaft slides on the axis of the output side pulley shaft in the axial direction of the output side pulley shaft.