IP Library Granted Patent US 9,958,043
Granted Patent B2
US 9,958,043 · App. 14/781,873 · Granted May 1, 2018

Power transmission device

Inventors: Yousuke Nakamura (Ichinomiya, JP); Manabu Saiki (Chiryu, JP); Kiyomi Okuda (Kariya, JP)
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
F16H35/10F16D3/78F16D9/06F16H55/36F16D1/076
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Patent No.
US 9,958,043
App. No.
14/781,873
Granted
May 1, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A power transmission device includes a pulley constituting a driving-side rotor, an inner hub, a washer and a limiter which constitute a driven-side rotor, and a plate configured as a linking elastic member that connects the driving-side rotor and the driven-side rotor. A flat spring that elastically deforms in a direction along a rotation shaft is adopted as the plate. A distance in an axial direction between a pulley-side attachment portion of the plate which is attached to the pulley and a hub-side attachment portion of the plate which is attached to the inner hub is adjusted to fall within a predetermined standard range by interposing a shim as an adjustment member between the plate and the pulley.

Claims (21)

1. A power transmission device that transmits a rotation driving power outputted from a driving source to a driving target device, the power transmission device comprising:

a driving-side rotor rotated by the rotation driving power;

a driven-side rotor rotated together with a rotation shaft of the driving target device by a torque transmitted from the driving-side rotor; and

a linking elastic member that has a plate shape spreading in a direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft and is deformed elastically in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, the linking elastic member connecting the driven-side rotor and the driving-side rotor, the torque being transmitted from the driving-side rotor to the driven-side rotor only through a pathway including the linking elastic member, wherein

the driven-side rotor includes a breakage portion that is broken when the torque transmitted from the driving source to the rotation shaft of the driving target device becomes higher than or equal to a predetermined standard torque, and a separation part separated from the rotation shaft when the breakage portion is broken,

the linking elastic member connects the separation part and the driving-side rotor, and

the linking elastic member includes a driving-side attachment portion attached to the driving-side rotor and a driven-side attachment portion attached to the driven-side rotor,

the power transmission device further comprising an adjustment member that adjusts a distance between the driving-side attachment portion and the driven-side attachment portion in the axial direction of the rotation shaft such that the distance falls within a predetermined standard range.

2. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein

the linking elastic member and the driving-side rotor are connected by a bolt that extends through a through-hole provided in both the linking elastic member and the driving-side rotor and by a nut screwed to the bolt; and

the adjustment member is a shim interposed between the driving-side rotor and the linking elastic member, the adjustment member having a through-hole through which the bolt extends.

3. The power transmission device according to claim 2 , wherein

the nut includes a protruding portion protruding to an outside of a through-hole of the driving-side rotor, and

the adjustment member is press-fitted to the protruding portion.

4. The power transmission device according to claim 2 , wherein the adjustment member is press-fitted to a screw thread portion of the bolt.

5. The power transmission device according to claim 2 , wherein

the through-hole of the driving-side rotor, through which the bolt extends, has a countersunk hole, and

a radially outer side of the adjustment member is fitted to an inner wall of the countersunk hole.

6. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the adjustment member is fixed to the driving-side rotor.

7. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the driving-side rotor is always fixed to the linking elastic member.

8. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the linking elastic member gives a load on the separation portion of the driven-side rotor in a direction away from the rotation shaft when the breakage portion is not broken.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 1, 2015
From: NAKAMURA, YOUSUKE; SAIKI, MANABU; OKUDA, KIYOMI
To: DENSO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 036707/0843 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-079424 · Apr 5, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160053876A1 · Feb 25, 2016