Endless belt power transmission systems or components – Means for adjusting belt tension or for shifting belt,... – Pulley shifter
Patent
1982-05-03
1985-12-10
Braun, Leslie A.
Endless belt power transmission systems or components
Means for adjusting belt tension or for shifting belt,...
Pulley shifter
474135, F16H 712
Patent
active
045577099
ABSTRACT:
A belt tensioning system for maintaining consistent and constant tension in a serpentine drive system which includes a series of pulleys and an endless belt interconnecting the pulleys. The tensioning system utilizes a low rate power spring which acts on the idler pulley, and through the idler pulley on the belt, and is suitable to maintain tension over a broad range of belt length variation and pulley locations and provide damping adequate to prevent undue pulley oscillation over a broad range of system vibration conditions. In one form of the invention, the spring itself is effectively fixed at one end to the engine block and at the other end to a tensioner housing so as to operate on the idler pulley and maintain the tension and provide the damping. The hysteresis of the spring, responding to pulley movement, thus assists in the damping. In another form of the invention, the system is further protected against operating at resonance by using, in addition to the spring, a spring-loaded brake arrangement which acts on the tensioner housing to create an overdamped condition. In still another form of the invention, the spring can be mounted eccentrically with respect to the central axis of its housing to conserve space while retaining the tensioning and damping characteristics.
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Braun Leslie A.
Diehl Dwight G.
I Corp.
Taylor Reese
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