Abstract:
Embodiments of a friction drive system include a battery, a drive motor, a control unit, and a speed wheel. When the friction drive system is mounted on a wheeled vehicle, the speed wheel provides an accurate measurement of the vehicle speed by maintaining contact with a tire of the vehicle. An automatic traction control system, which may be part of the control unit, compares the speed of the speed wheel with the speed of the drive motor to determine whether slippage is occurring. If slippage is detected, then embodiments of an automatic traction control system automatically increase an amount of normal force between a contact surface on the drive motor and the tire, by advancing a position of the drive motor relative to a fixed mounting point. If no slippage is detected, then embodiments of an automatic traction control system automatically reduce the amount of normal force, by retracting a position of the drive r elative to a fixed mounting point. In embodiments of a friction drive system, the relative position of the drive motor may be controlled by powering a worm gear motor attached to a worm gear in response to commands from the control unit.
Abstract:
A power transmission roller assembly is provided which includes a roller body to be brought into abutment with the driving roller and the driven roller; a pivot shaft fixed to a vehicle body; a pivot arm provided radially inside of the roller body, and pivotally mounted on the pivot shaft; a roller support bearing rotatably supporting the roller body; and a pair of biasing members provided on the pivot arm. The pair of biasing members bias the roller support bearing to a predetermined position between the driving and driven rollers where the abutment forces between the roller body and the driving and driven rollers balance with each other.
Abstract:
A drive apparatus for a vehicle auxiliary device is provided that basically includes first and second drive sources, an auxiliary device, first, second and third rollers, first, second and third idler rollers and a roller pair selection mechanism. The first, second and third rollers are linked to rotary shafts of the first and second drive sources and the auxiliary device. The first, second and third idler rollers are disposed at gap positions formed between the first, second and third rollers. The roller pair selection mechanisms select a power-transmitting roller pair from among the first, second and third rollers by selectively moving the first, second and third idler rollers in roller contact directions, thereby interposing the first, second and third idler rollers therebetween.
Abstract:
A drive apparatus for a vehicle auxiliary device is provided that basically includes first and second drive sources, an auxiliary device, first, second and third rollers, first, second and third idler rollers and a roller pair selection mechanism. The first, second and third rollers are linked to rotary shafts of the first and second drive sources and the auxiliary device. The first, second and third idler rollers are disposed at gap positions formed between the first, second and third rollers. The roller pair selection mechanisms select a power-transmitting roller pair from among the first, second and third rollers by selectively moving the first, second and third idler rollers in roller contact directions, thereby interposing the first, second and third idler rollers therebetween.
Abstract:
A torque distributor includes a friction-drive mechanism having a first roller rotatable together with a first rotary member, partly constituting a torque-transmission path to primary drive wheels, and a second roller rotatable together with a second rotary member, partly constituting a torque-transmission path to secondary drive wheels. Also provided is an eccentric-crank mechanism for revolving the second roller in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of power transmission of the second roller around an eccentric-shaft axis displaced from a second-roller rotation axis to produce a displacement of the second roller from a non-power-transmission position of non-frictional-contact with the first roller, thereby ensuring high-precision torque-distribution control with no reversal of a polarity of moment acting on a rotational-position-control system for eccentric cranks.
Abstract:
There is provided a compact and highly durable variable-speed traction drive transmission device. A traction drive transmission device which uses the traction of rolling bodies K arranged between an input shaft Si and an output shaft So to change the number of revolutions of the input shaft Si into a desired transmission ratio and output from the output shaft So, has a rotation axis of the rolling bodies K arranged at an incline so that it is not orthogonal to the axis of the input shaft Si and the output shaft So, and there is provided: a load regulation cam 50 which automatically changes a preload applied to the rolling bodies K corresponding to a torque of the input shaft Si; and a differential type transmission ratio variation mechanism using a worm gear 55, which is connected to a retainer 40 serving as a traction input-output member of the rolling bodies K, and performs number of revolutions control of the retainer 40 to change the transmission ratio.
Abstract:
A friction gear for a separate accessory of a combustion engine equipped with belt-driven auxiliary units, including a frictional wheel guided by a swivel arm coupled to the engine, to which a protection device is assigned, with the swivel arm and the frictional wheel/protection device provided as a single assembly. The swivel arm provided in the form of a hollow profile includes, on the one hand, a housing which has a single part, flat-cylindrical design and which serves as an essentially closed frictional wheel/protection device with a frictional wheel that can be rotationally mounted between housing end walls and, on the other hand, a coupling location, such that the swivel arm forming a whole with the protective housing and with the coupling location is designed so that it can be assembled over at least one longitudinal partition.
Abstract:
A friction roller type transmission includes a first roller (1) and a second roller (2) disposed on two shafts spaced in parallel away from each other so that the first roller (1) and the second roller (2), with the respective shafts being centered, do not contact each other, and a third roller (3) and a fourth roller (4) each of which contacts both of the first roller (1) and the second roller (2), and disposed between the first roller (1) and the second roller (2) and on the sides opposite to a line connecting a center of the first roller (1) and a center of the second roller (2), wherein an angle which is made by a tangential line between the first roller (1) and the third roller (3) (or the fourth roller (4)) and a tangential line between the second roller (2) and the third roller (3) (or the fourth roller (4)) is set not to exceed two times a frictional angle obtained from a coefficient of friction between the respective rollers, and a set load is applied to holding members (20a, 20b) for rotatably holding the third roller (3) or the fourth roller (4) so that the holder members (20a, 20b) are retained in set positions.
Abstract:
A continuously variable traction roller transmission comprises a loading nut having one end portion which abuts on a stopper formed by one end face of a ball spline, disc springs arranged between an input disc and the loading nut, and a preliminary pressure adjusting member arranged between the input disc and the disc springs.
Abstract:
A swivel disk friction gear system has a driving part and a driven part, each having a concave outer surface. An axially adjustable set ring is arranged between these parts. The gear system also has swivel disks with convex outer surfaces which are pivotably mounted in the set ring and swing freely with respect thereto and are frictionally engaged with the concave surface of the driving and driven parts. A drive shaft connected with the driving part has a piston rigidly connected thereto. The piston is surrounded by a cylindrical bore defining a hollow space within the driving or driven part, which part is axially displaceable on the drive shaft. The hollow space acts as a compression space to accommodate movement of the piston plate, the compression space is connected with a pressure conduit for a pressure medium. The drive train has a pumping system arranged on the drive shaft for actuating the piston and producing an adequate contact pressure for adjusting one of the driving or driven part to produce a frictional lock therebetween via the pivotal disk. A pressure control device is associated with the pump.