IP Library Granted Patent US 8,460,137
Granted Patent B2
US 8,460,137 · App. 12/827,497 · Granted Jun 11, 2013

Belt-drive CVT

Inventors: Akira Kajigaya (Atsugi, JP); Tomoo Kawagoshi (Machida, JP); Takahiro Imai (Tokyo, JP); Takuya Iwasawa (Sagamihara, JP); Daisuke Kawanishi (Isehara, JP)
Assignee: Jatco Ltd
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Patent No.
US 8,460,137
App. No.
12/827,497
Granted
Jun 11, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A belt-drive CVT includes a pair of pulleys, each of which has a stationary pulley and a movable pulley that moves toward or away from the stationary pulley in an axial direction of the pulley, a belt that is wound around the pair of pulleys and a rotation state detecting device for detecting rotation of the pulley. The rotation state detecting device has a tone wheel that rotates integrally with the pulley and a sensor that faces the tone wheel. The tone wheel has a cylinder portion that extends along a moving direction of the movable pulley. The cylinder portion is provided with a plurality of detection portions which are arranged at regular intervals in a circumferential direction throughout an entire circumference of the cylinder portion and which extend along the moving direction of the movable pulley.

Claims (52)

1. A belt-drive continuously variable transmission comprising:

a pair of pulleys, each of the pair of pulleys having:

(a) a stationary pulley; and

(b) a movable pulley that moves toward or away from the stationary pulley in an axial direction of the pulley;

a belt wound around the pair of pulleys; and

a rotation state detecting device for detecting rotation of one of the pair of pulleys, the rotation state detecting device having:

(c) a tone wheel that rotates integrally with the one of the pair of pulleys; and

(d) a sensor that faces the tone wheel, the tone wheel having a cylinder portion that extends along a moving direction of the movable pulley and the cylinder portion having a plurality of detection portions at regular intervals along a circumferential direction throughout an entire circumference of the cylinder portion and extending along the moving direction,

wherein the cylinder portion is on an outer circumference side of a fluid pressure cylinder of the movable pulley,

wherein the cylinder portion and the movable pulley are fixedly connected to each other,

wherein the tone wheel has an attachment portion sandwiched and supported between the movable pulley and the fluid pressure cylinder, and

wherein the cylinder portion continues from the attachment portion through a bending portion such that a position of the cylinder portion is fixed relative to a position of the attachment portion.

2. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 1 , wherein one of the detection portions is formed by any one of a hole, an open-end detection portion whose one end is cut off, a concave detection portion, and a convex detection portion.

3. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sensor is at a side cover that covers an axial direction end surface of the one of the pair of pulleys.

4. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an outside diameter of the cylinder portion is smaller than an outside diameter of the movable pulley.

5. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tone wheel is on a movable pulley side.

6. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a length, in the moving direction of the movable pulley, of one of the detection portions is longer than a movable range of the movable pulley.

7. A belt-drive continuously variable transmission comprising:

a pair of pulleys, each of the pair of pulleys having:

(a) a stationary pulley; and

(b) a movable pulley that moves toward or away from the stationary pulley in an axial direction of the pulley;

a belt wound around the pair of pulleys; and

a rotation state detecting device for detecting rotation of one of the pair of pulleys, the rotation state detecting device having:

(c) a tone wheel that rotates integrally with the one of the pair of pulleys; and

(d) a sensor that faces the tone wheel, the tone wheel having a cylinder portion that extends along a moving direction of the movable pulley and the cylinder portion having a plurality of detection portions at regular intervals along a circumferential direction throughout an entire circumference of the cylinder portion and extending along the moving direction,

wherein the cylinder portion is on an outer circumference side of a fluid pressure cylinder of the movable pulley,

wherein the cylinder portion and the movable pulley are fixedly connected to each other,

wherein the tone wheel has an attachment portion sandwiched and supported between the movable pulley and the fluid pressure cylinder,

wherein the cylinder portion continues from the attachment portion through a bending portion, and

wherein the attachment portion is pressed against a back surface of the movable pulley in the moving direction of the movable pulley by a fluid pressure in the fluid pressure cylinder.

8. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 7 , wherein one of the detection portions is formed by any one of a hole, an open-end detection portion whose one end is cut off, a concave detection portion, and a convex detection portion.

9. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the sensor is at a side cover that covers an axial direction end surface of the one of the pair of pulleys.

10. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 7 , wherein an outside diameter of the cylinder portion is smaller than an outside diameter of the movable pulley.

11. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the tone wheel is on a movable pulley side.

12. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 7 , wherein a length, in the moving direction of the movable pulley, of one of the detection portions is longer than a movable range of the movable pulley.

13. A belt-drive continuously variable transmission comprising:

a pair of pulleys, each of the pair of pulleys having:

(a) a stationary pulley; and

(b) a movable pulley that moves toward or away from the stationary pulley in an axial direction of the pulley;

a belt wound around the pair of pulleys; and

a rotation state detecting device for detecting rotation of one of the pair of pulleys, the rotation state detecting device having:

(c) a tone wheel that rotates integrally with the one of the pair of pulleys; and

(d) a sensor that faces the tone wheel, the tone wheel having a cylinder portion that extends along a moving direction of the movable pulley and the cylinder portion having a plurality of detection portions at regular intervals along a circumferential direction throughout an entire circumference of the cylinder portion and extending along the moving direction,

wherein the cylinder portion is on an outer circumference side of a fluid pressure cylinder of the movable pulley,

wherein the cylinder portion and the movable pulley are fixedly connected to each other,

wherein the tone wheel has an attachment portion that abuts the movable pulley and abuts the fluid pressure cylinder in the axial direction of the pulley such that the attachment portion and the movable pulley are axially fixed relative to each other, and

wherein the cylinder portion continues from the attachment portion through a bending portion such that the cylinder portion, the attachment portion and the bending portion form an integral part made from a same material.

14. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 13 , wherein one of the detection portions is formed by any one of a hole, an open-end detection portion whose one end is cut off, a concave detection portion, and a convex detection portion.

15. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the sensor is at a side cover that covers an axial direction end surface of the one of the pair of pulleys.

16. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 13 , wherein an outside diameter of the cylinder portion is smaller than an outside diameter of the movable pulley.

17. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the tone wheel is on a movable pulley side.

18. The belt-drive continuously variable transmission as claimed in claim 13 , wherein a length, in the moving direction of the movable pulley, of one of the detection portions is longer than a movable range of the movable pulley.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNOR ASSIGNS 50% INTEREST Recorded Jan 14, 2014
From: JATCO LTD
To: JATCO LTD; NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 032018/0874 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 1, 2010
From: KAJIGAYA, AKIRA; KAWAGOSHI, TOMOO; IMAI, TAKAHIRO; IWASAWA, TAKUYA; KAWANISHI, DAISUKE
To: JATCO LTD
Reel/Frame 024624/0328 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-166445 · Jul 15, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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