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Granted Patent B2
US 9,341,234 · App. 13/516,051 · Granted May 17, 2016

Friction drive belt

Inventor: Hiroyuki Shiriike (Hyogo, JP)
Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
F16G5/20F16G5/06
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Patent No.
US 9,341,234
App. No.
13/516,051
Granted
May 17, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle periphery monitoring system is provided, in which by matching a behavior of a semitransparent tire image with an operation from a driver's viewpoint, a feeling of strangeness is reduced, an intuitive space perception is assisted and also a moving direction and a behavior of a vehicle can be easily perceived. In a side-view monitor system an image processing controller converts a real camera image including a blind spot into an image to be viewed from a driver's viewpoint to generate a blind spot image, and superimposes a semitransparent vehicle image which is obtained by making a vehicle viewed from the driver's viewpoint semitransparent and a semitransparent tire image which is obtained by making a tire semitransparent and displaying a behavior following a handle operation viewed from the driver's viewpoint on the blind spot image.

Claims (27)

1. A friction drive belt comprising a compression rubber layer which is provided on an inner periphery of a belt body and transmits power between pulleys upon coming into contact with the pulleys, wherein

the compression rubber layer includes a surface rubber layer having numerous pores, of which an average pore size is 80 to 120 μm, on a pulley contact surface, and an inner rubber layer which is provided toward an inside of the belt relative to the surface rubber layer, the inner rubber layer has storage modulus at 25° C. in a belt length direction higher than that of the surface rubber layer and is in the range from 30 to 50 MPa.

2. The friction drive belt of claim 1 , wherein

the surface rubber layer has a thickness of 50-500 μm.

3. The friction drive belt of claim 1 , wherein

the surface rubber layer has a storage modulus at 25° C. in the belt length direction of 20-45 MPa.

4. The friction drive belt of claim 1 , wherein

the numerous pores formed on the pulley contact surface of the surface rubber layer are made of partially cut away hollow particles blended into a rubber composition forming the surface rubber layer.

5. The friction drive belt of claim 4 , wherein

the hollow particles contained in the rubber composition forming the surface rubber layer are blended in an amount of 0.5-10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a base material rubber.

6. The friction drive belt of claim 1 , wherein

the numerous pores formed on the pulley contact surface of the surface rubber layer are made of partially cut away hollows produced by a foaming agent blended into a rubber composition forming the surface rubber layer.

7. The friction drive belt of claim 6 , wherein

the foaming agent contained in the rubber composition forming the surface rubber layer is blended in an amount of 1-15 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a base material rubber.

8. The friction drive belt of claim 1 , wherein

the rubber composition forming the surface rubber layer contains no short fibers.

9. The friction drive belt of claim 1 , wherein

a rubber composition forming the inner rubber layer contains no hollow particles and no foaming agents.

10. The friction drive belt of claim 1 , wherein

the base material rubber for the rubber composition forming the surface rubber layer is identical with a base material rubber for the rubber composition forming the inner rubber layer.

11. The friction drive belt of claim 10 , wherein

the base material rubber for the rubber composition forming the surface rubber layer and for the rubber composition forming the inner rubber layer is an ethylene-α-olefin elastomer.

12. The friction drive belt of claim 1 , wherein,

the belt body is a V-ribbed belt body.

13. A belt transmission system in which the friction drive belt of any one of claims 1 - 12 is wrapped around a plurality of pulleys.

14. A friction drive belt comprising a compression rubber layer which is provided on an inner periphery of a belt body and transmits power between pulleys upon coming in contact with the pulleys, wherein

the compression rubber layer includes a surface rubber layer having numerous pores, of which an average pore size is 80 to 120 μm, on a pulley contact surface, and an inner rubber layer which is provided toward an inside of the belt relative to the surface rubber layer, the inner rubber layer contains no hollows, and has storage modulus at 25° C. in a belt length direction that is higher than that of the surface rubber layer and is in the range from 30 to 50 MPa.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 14, 2012
From: SHIRIIKE, HIROYUKI
To: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 028376/0649 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-282890 · Dec 14, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120295748A1 · Nov 22, 2012