Abstract: A final drive unit for a motor vehicle has a differential gear set rotationally mounted in a gear housing that has a rearward facing cover. The differential gear set includes a differential case driven by a ring gear. The ring gear dips into lubricant in the bottom of the gear housing and pumps a portion of the lubricant through a lubricant cooling passage in the cover having a plurality of vertical parallel open ended conduits connected to a manifold having an inlet at the bottom of the cover.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling temperature of fluid in a differential assembly. The apparatus includes a differential housing having a number of sidewalls which collectively define an internal component chamber, wherein (i) the internal component chamber has a differential sump located therein, and (ii) the differential sump has a sump input port defined therein. The apparatus also includes a first operational pressure source which advances fluid from the internal component chamber of the differential housing. The apparatus further includes a diverter valve which receives fluid advanced by the first operational pressure source from the internal component chamber. The diverter valve has a cold fluid output port and a hot fluid output port. A heating fluid return line is interposed between the cold fluid output port of the diverter valve and the sump input port of the differential sump.

Abstract: A differential having a housing for receiving differential components. An input shaft, for example a drive pinion gear, is rotatably mounted within the differential housing. A drive line connection point is affixed to the drive pinion gear and is the mounting point for the drive shaft. A fan is disposed on the drive line connection point and is used to force air over the differential housing. The fan may be formed integrally with a drive train part, or be separable therefrom. Rotation of the fan forces air over the surface of the differential housing causing forced convection cooling of the differential components.

Abstract: A cooling structure of a belt transmission for vehicles which limits the consumed power for cooling to a minimum and does not deteriorate cooling performance of the transmission. A drive pulley having a variable pitch diameter and a driven pulley which is driven through a drive belt and has a variable pitch diameter is housed in a substantially elliptical housing. An intake port formed in the vicinity of a suction part of the cooling fan formed on the drive pulley in the housing to forcedly introduce air from the outside and exhaust air to the outside. An exhaust port on the housing in a normal direction of the driven pulley at the rearward of a center of rotation of the driven pulley as seen from a side.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling an axle assembly includes a housing defining a chamber having a first fluid contained therein. The apparatus also includes a conduit located within the chamber. The apparatus further includes a fluid source in fluid communication with the conduit, wherein (1) a second fluid located within the fluid source is advanced through the conduit, and (2) the first fluid located within the housing does not intermix with the second fluid being advanced through the conduit. A method of cooling a differential assembly is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention is directed to apparatus and a method for controlling temperature of lubricant contained in, but not limited to, a differential housing. The apparatus includes a cover plate having an air duct arrangement that includes an intake manifold, a discharge and at least one air conduit that extends between the intake manifold and the discharge. The air conduit communicates with the outside surface of the cover plate, and a temperature responsive fan selectively forces air into the manifold to create an airflow along the air conduit. Heat is transferred from the cover plate surface to the air as the airflow moves through the air conduit and the heated air is expelled at the discharge to lower and control lubricant temperature.

Abstract: A cooling structure of a power transmission apparatus is provided. The power transmission apparatus has an electromagnetic clutch including a fixed outer member with an exciting coil and a rotary inner member adapted to be fixed to the outer member by controlling electric energy provided to the exciting coil, and a gear device connected to the inner member of the electromagnetic clutch. A cooling apparatus is positioned between the outer member and a gear case member housing the gear device, for cooling both of the electromagnetic clutch and the gear device concurrently.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cooling of a controller (16) of a transmission of a motor vehicle (6). A motor vehicle (6) has a transmission (2) in which or on which is provided a control mechanism (16, 18) actuated by a control fluid (40). The control electronic system (30, 32, 38) of the controller (16) is compulsorily cooled by a ducted supply of a control fluid (40) to the electronic system (30, 32, 38) or through the control electronic system (30, 32, 38). The control fluid (40) may be driven by a conveyor mechanism through a cooling channel (36) upon which the control electronic system is mounted with optimum heat conductivity.

Abstract: An actuator device designed to prevent intrusion of water into a control section housing chamber due to an breathing operation and hence malfunction and fracture of a control section. In the actuator device, a ventilating opening is provided in a partition between a mechanism section housing chamber and a control section housing chamber for communicating the mechanism section housing chamber and the control section housing chamber, a cylindrical protrusion is provided in the partition on the side of the mechanism section housing chamber so as to surround the ventilating opening; and a drain hole for communicating said mechanism section housing chamber with outside air is provided at a position lower than that of the ventilating opening of said mechanism section housing chamber.

Abstract: A transmission cooling system (10) for a vehicle equipped with an engine (12) having a pressurized liquid cooling system (50). The transmission cooling system includes an oil-to-water-type heat exchanger (40) located in the transmission lubricant sump (36) and fluidly connected in series to the engine cooling system.

Abstract: A control system includes a casing being partially filled with oil and in which an electrical, mechanical and/or hydraulic control device is disposed. An electronic control system is functionally associated with the control device. In order to keep electrical lines from the electronic control system to the control device as short as possible, the electronic control system is located inside the casing and is partially surrounded by oil. A printed circuit board and components of the electronic control system are sealed with a protective layer.

Abstract: An axle driving apparatus of the present invention consists of a hydrostatic transmission for driving a vehicle. The transmission is so designed that a fan is disposed on a power input shaft so as to cool a housing as well as cooling tubing or an oil passage disposed between the fan and the upper surface of the housing. The housing of the axle driving apparatus is filled with lubricating oil, used on the gears and bearings of the power transmission from the hydrostatic transmission to the axles, and operating oil, used in the pump and motor of the hydrostatic transmission. The oil circulates within the tubing or the oil passage. Cooling the oil passing in the tubing or the oil passage prevents a deterioration in efficiency of the axle driving apparatus.

Abstract: A one-piece relief valve is incorporated into a transmission cooling system. The one-piece relief valve replaces the prior art systems which have used plural T-connections to achieve the relief valve function. The one-piece relief valve reduces the number of fluid connections on the transmission cooling system, thus reducing the possibility of leakage.

Abstract: A drive axle assembly has a gear housing, two axle tubes extending outwardly of the gear housing, a lubricant reservoir in the gear housing and a gear assembly rotatably mounted in the gear housing that has a rotatable member that is partially disposed in lubricant in the lubricant reservoir. The drive axle assembly also has a lubricant cooling system that includes a lubricant passage in fluid communication with the lubricant reservoir via an inlet that is juxtaposed the rotatable member so that the level of lubricant in the lubricant passage is raised when the rotatable member rotates. The lubricant passage has elevated outlets that deliver lubricant to lubricant ducts disposed in the respective axle tubes when the lubricant in the lubricant passage rises above a predetermined level. The lubricant flows away from the gear housing in the lubricant ducts and returns to the reservoir along the interior of the axle tubes which cools the lubricant as it returns to the reservoir.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling an engine or component in a vehicle which employs an air conditioning unit such that the condensate which naturally forms on the evaporator during air conditioner unit operation is collected and directed to the transmission pan to enhance cooling.

Abstract: The invention relates to a safeguard system for speed increasing/reducing mechanical assembly, especially of the helicopter "gear box" type, in case of lubricating oil loss, which comprises an additional cooling system the casing of the said mechanical assembly, with an inlet (1) and an outlet (2) arranged on the casing (3) of this mechanical assembly. The inlet (1) and the outlet (2) closed during normal operation and they open under the effect of a control device at a preset value of a parameter significant for lubricating oil loss, whereby this control device actuates simultaneously the additional cooling system, in order to provide a circulation of the coolant between the inlet (1) and the outlet (2) so that this coolant, loaded with the calories further to the warm-up caused by the lubricating oil loss, may evacuate the said calories outside via the outlet (2) of the additional cooling system, which is of the air circulation type.

Abstract: In a driven axle assembly (12) for a motor vehicle that includes a differential housing located substantially in the center of the axle and tubes (16, 17) extending laterally from the differential, surrounding axle shafts (20) and opening into a lubricant reservoir (60) in the differential housing, a system for circulating and cooling axle lubricant includes a cover (26) for closing and sealing the housing having an aperture into the housing where a ring gear rotates through the lubricant reservoir. The aperture in the cover opens to a chamber that holds lubricant carried through the aperture by the rotating ring gear. Conduits (72, 74) connected by hydraulic fittings (76, 78) to the chamber have their opposite ends connected to the axle tubes at an outboard location distant from the differential housing. Lubricant flows through the conduits into the axle tubes and back to the housing reservoir, effectively cooling the lubricant without the addition of a pump.

Abstract: A cooling means for removing heat generated in a portion of a solid ball-and-screw shaft (27) provided for a screw mechanism accommodated in an industrial robot and engaged with a linear motion nut (28) accommodated in the linear motion mechanism. The cooling means permits a cooling medium, typically cooling air, to flow through a cooling medium passage (33) formed in an unthreaded end portion of the shaft (27) and having an end connected to a rotative drive motor (M), to flow through a radial hole (34) having one end connected to the cooling medium passage (33) and the other end opening into an annular space surrounding an external surface of the shaft formed with a screw thread (27a), and to flow through the annular space along the surface of the threaded portion of the shaft (27), to thereby remove heat generated at the threaded portion engaged with the linear motion nut (28).

Abstract: A connecting passageway is provided between a cooling air fan and an enclosure for an enclosed belt drive of an internal-combustion engine, whereby the belt drive is cooled by a cool-air stream diverted from the cooing fan.The connecting passageway is made as an air shaft, which is formed largely from existing parts of the internal-combustion engine and, in addition, is arranged in such a fashion that it has no parts protruding beyond the outer counter of the engine.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for automatically and continuously lubricating a rotary drive of an industrial drive such as a pump, roll, or other driven member is disclosed. The apparatus includes a rotary drive coupling assembly that is connected between an input shaft and an output shaft which drives the driven member. There is an axial bore drilled through the center of an input shaft and a transverse bore which communicates with the axial bore and terminates at an exterior of the input shaft. The shaft coupling assembly preferably comprises a first shaft coupling and a second shaft coupling which are connected by a connecting member. A bridge conduit spans the first shaft coupling and terminates at a manifold which is carried about the connecting member. From the manifold, a plurality of injector valves distribute pressurized lubricant delivered by a timed pressure pump to the shaft couplings. Preferably the shaft couplings comprise universal type joint couplings having a plurality of bearings.

Abstract: An engine unit includes an engine and a power train having a transmission and the engine unit is mounted sideways on a vehicle body with the power train positioned rearward of the engine. The engine and the power train are housed in a single engine housing and an oil pan common to the engine and the power train is mounted on the lower side of the engine housing below the engine and the power train. The length of the oil pan in the transverse direction of the vehicle body is smaller than the engine housing and auxiliary mechanisms are disposed in the space on one side of the oil pan and below the engine housing.

Abstract: The invention concerns a drive shaft (1) having gear heads (9) in each one of which is mounted a liquid-cooled disc brake (19) and a planetary gear (18). In order to improve the cooling of the disc brakes (19), collection and guide elements (32) are coordinated with the bevel wheel (11) of a differential gear (12). The collection and guide elements (32) can consist of a trap (41) or of strippers (49, 50). A shifting of coolant in the gear heads (9) takes place during operation. The object of the invention is applied in particular to heavy utility vehicles such as wheel loaders where the disc brakes (19) are used frequently and must be reliably cooled.

Abstract: The cooling method consists of sucking up inside the reduction gear previously filtered air which, when traversing the reduction gear, is mixed with the spray of lubricating oil so as to collect its calories and reject it outside after having purified it from the oil it contains. The equipment incorporates one or several air intakes provided with filters and an extraction fan driven by the reduction gear and provided with means for collecting and draining the oil. The application of this method is for reduction gears lubricated with sprayed oil and particularly for helicopter gearboxes.

Abstract: A hydrostatic transmission includes a fan and pulley, attached to the input drive shaft, the fan and pulley being connected by a coupling device and including aligned air flow holes for drawing the air into the fan. The fan has several types of blades for directing the inflowing air downwardly and outwardly and in cooperation with radially curved fins cast in the transmission casing directly below the fan such that the helical air flow pattern developed by the fan and pulley is helically drawn over the transmission to effect efficient cooling thereof with fresh cool air.

Abstract: A transmission gearbox noise control system is operative during normal operations of a transmission system to effectively null temperature variations among selected localized areas of the transmission gearbox housing by utilizing oil jets for cooling/heating thereof, thereby reducing or eliminating differential thermal expansion effects or minor manufacturing errors among such localized areas wherein transmission vibration levels (noise) emanating from the gearbox are abated. The system includes one or more metering valves, a spray rod mounted in combination with each metering valve, an oil reservoir, a fluid pathway for fluidically interconnecting each metering valve to the oil reservoir, at least one pump for circulating oil through the fluid pathway, and a regulating subsystem that is automatically or manually operative to initiate/terminate the operation of each metering valve, to regulate the rate of fluid flow therethrough, and/or to adjust the impingement pattern of the fluid jet discharged therefrom.

Abstract: The gist of the present invention consists in an oil cooler for an automatic transmission, wherein opposite corners in a rectangular core made of a plurality of stacked plates are provided with a plate side oil passages, which are connected via an oil tank formed projectingly to the front side of the core, to oil inflow and outflow stud bolts. In the present invention, the opposite corners in the core are provided with plate side oil passages, which are connected via the oil tank formed projectingly to the front side of the core, to oil inflow and outflow stud bolts, which permits the whole core to be supplied with oil.

Abstract: A hydraulic breather for a valve body in an automatic transmission, in which is disposed hydraulic equipment, for example, linear solenoid valves. The breather separates oil in the oil pan from the oil in the hydraulilc equipment when the automatic transmission is at work while allowing clean oil from the oil pan to enter the hydraulic equipment when the automatic transmission is at rest. The breating hole is provided in the form of an oil passage extending from hydraulic equipment within the valve body and includes an open-end section disposed in an upper part of the valve body. The open-end is located at a point higher than the working oil level in the automatic transmission. When the automatic transmission is at work, oil in the oil pan is used to lubricate, so the oil level is at its lowest level and the open-end section is above that oil level and thereby connects with air space in the valve body.

Abstract: An apparatus for maintaining the temperature of the transmission of a motorized vehicle within safe limits when the vehicle's engine is not running. The apparatus includes a pump for circulating fluid through the transmission, the pump being operable independently of the operation of the motor that drives the vehicle. Therefore, a vehicle can be safely towed any distance without the need to elevate the vehicle to prevent the vehicle's wheels from turning. In the preferred embodiment, a power source provides power to the pump. A switch selectively connects the power source to the pump to enable the pump to be turned on and off. Fluid is pumped to a radiator through a first fluid flow line connected between the pump and the radiator, and returns to the transmission through a second fluid flow line connected between the transmission and the radiator. A fan is positioned in close proximity to the radiator such that the fan can push air through the radiator.

Abstract: A combined hydraulic motor and speed reducer intended to improve the service life of sealing members and bearings by cooling lubricating oil within a speed reducer case. The hydraulic motor includes a motor case (1) having a peripheral surface in which a pair of supply/discharge ports (18, 17) are formed in a diametrically opposite relationship and extend axially from one end of the motor case (1) so as to open to a speed reducer case (6). Cool lubricating oil is supplied to the interior of the speed reducer case, and at the same time, high temperature lubricating oil is discharged out of the motor. In this way, the lubricating oil within the speed reducer case is maintained at low temperature.

Abstract: Method for lubricating vehicle gears, characterized in that the lubricating oil is injected directly into the areas to be lubricated by means of a plurality of injection elements (43) and the consumed oil is returned to said injection elements by means of a closed circuit (35, 37, 40, 43, 45, 47, 49), where defoaming and preparation takes place.

Abstract: A machine housing having one wall with an outer side provided with ribs for the discharge of heat to the surrounding air. The ribs define undulation crests and there are curved undulation bases between the undulation crests. The ratio between the wall thickness and the rib height and the ratio between the rib pitch or spacing of the wall thickness and the radius of curvature of the undulations as compared with the wall thickness are all recited. The ribs preferably are parallel and preferably extend vertically in the installed position of the machine housing.

Abstract: A novel cover (10) for one end of the casing within which a vehicular transmission is housed and a unique method for making the cover. The cover (10) has a metallic body portion (12) within which a unitary manifold (40) has been cast in situ. The manifold (40) incorporates a plurality of conduits (A-E) which have been preformed and conjoined into the unitary manifold (40) that is precisely disposed within a mold. Molten metal is admitted into the mold to encapsulate the manifold (40) within the metallic body portion (12) of the cover (10). After the cover (10) has been cast, with the manifold (40) encapsulated therein, the cover (10) is removed from the mold, and only a relatively modest amount of machining operations are required to complete the cover (10).

Abstract: An oil cooler for a final drive unit is disposed under a vehicle floor and installed on a rear elevated portion of a rear floor panel and under a rear seat. In one embodiment, bracket arrangement for installing the oil cooler under the vehicle floor serves not only as a support for the oil cooler but as a deflector or an air introducing device for efficiently introducing air to the oil cooler.

Abstract: An air breather device of an automatic transmission is disclosed, which comprises a first recessed portion formed on a transmission housing near a mating edge portion of the same, and a second recessed portion formed on a converter housing near a mating edge portion of the same. Upon coupling of these housings with their mating edge portions sealingly mated, the first and second recessed portions are mated with each other to constitute a single air breather chamber having a sufficient capacity.

Abstract: A device for supplying lubricating oil in a transmission mechanism, the transmission mechanism comprising: an input shaft; an output shaft disposed parallel to the input shaft; a first rotary body provided on the input shaft; a second rotary body provided on the output shaft; a transmission member for interlocking the first rotary body with the second rotary body; and, a transmission mechanism case forming a transmission mechanism chamber separated from the exterior for housing the transmission mechanism; and, the lubricating oil supply device comprising: a partition wall assembly with an opening disposed in the transmission mechanism case chamber and defining an oil chamber to contain the lubricating oil scattered by the rotation of the transmission mechanism through the opening; and, a lubricating oil supply passage connected to the oil chamber to supply the transmission mechanism with lubricating oil, the passage being disposed at a level lower than the opening, whereby oil scattered by operation of the tr

Abstract: In a single- or multiple-part protective cover for traction drives (for instance, chain, belt, toothed belt drives or the like), in particular for vehicle engines, vehicle drives, machines or the like, a protection of the traction drive from impairment by excessive heating during operation and from the entry of dirt particles, rainwater, snow and other foreign bodies is attained in that at least one coolant overpressure inlet opening (2) is embodied in the walls of the protective cover (1) and communicates with at least one source emitting the pre-filtered coolant at overpressure.

Abstract: A sheet metal enclosure surrounds all exposed sides of a floor mounted gear drive housing. An electric fan is mounted in an inlet duct at one end of the enclosure and an opposite end of the enclosure has an outlet duct which has an opening to the bottom. Cooling air is drawn into the enclosure through the fan and exits through the opening. The air encounters the normal protruberances and discontinuities in the surface of the gear housing and baffles mounted interior of the enclosure so that the air flow through the enclosure is turbulent. A part of the air flow is directed beneath the gear housing through a channel formed between spaced lateral feet of the housing.

Abstract: A cooling device for cooling an automatic transmission by forcing air into heat transference with the transmission pan comprising a framework spaced below the bottom surface of the pan to provide a gap for the flow of air and a plurality of slats; each of the slats mounted to the framework at an upwardly inclined angle from front to rear transverse to the length of the pan and in parallel relationship with one another. Each of the slats is provided with an air intake opening, each opening being raised on successive slats from front to rear in "stair-step" fashion for maximum heat transference over the length of the pan. A pair of brackets are provided for mounting the device to existing pans or, in the alternative, the device may be unitary with the pan. The device is particularly useful on all vehicles having adequate ground clearance such as pickups, trucks, motor homes, and the like.

Abstract: This invention provides a ball screw apparatus complying with high-cleanliness specifications insofar as the apparatus has an axial through hole open at one end of the shaft and a large number of smaller holes on the periphery of the shaft which communicate with the hole, and an air sucking mechanism having a port communicating with the axial hole on the shaft so as to apply a negative pressure to the axial hole thereof. The shaft of this ball screw apparatus acts as a sucking duct so as to allow the use of ordinary grease lubrication even within a clean-room without the necessity of changing lubrication conditions depending on the type of greases.

Abstract: A drive unit for a roller-type conveyor system which comprises a drive gear mounted on a drive shaft within heat sink plates and driving a number of pinion gears connected to a pinion shaft each of which is connected to a roller by crimping with a flexible shaft. Each pinion shaft is completely supported within the heat sink plates. A tangential drive frangible sprocket wheel is directly connected to the drive shaft. The mounting plates relieve heat generated from the drive shaft and the frangible sprocket wheel. A number of transport mechanisms containing rollers and a control unit as just described are mounted together to form a conveyor system.

Abstract: A rotary piston internal combustion engine of trochoidal type of construction having a housing that consists of dual-curvature mantle runway and side parts, such housing having an eccentric shaft passing therethrough as well as having a triangular piston upon an eccentric of the eccentric shaft, such triangular piston having sealing parts rotating in continuous sliding engagement along a mantle runway in a planetary movement wherein the eccentric shaft is made hollow. The eccentric shaft is produced in a hydraulic pressure procedure. The eccentric shaft is lengthened and extended at an open end thereof via a pipe or tube pressed in the open end and coaxial therewith so as to extend beyond the shaft bearing or receiving of circulating pumps as well as output gears for additional auxiliary devices employable therewith. An end of the eccentric shaft extending beyond the shaft bearing has openings for inlet and discharge of fluid or liquid cooling medium.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cooling system for industrial equipment such as, for example, controlled start transmission gear reducer. The cooling system comprises a fan disposed on the rotatable shaft of the equipment for rotation in either direction and a fan shroud disposed about the fan for directing air currents generated by said fan through a connecting duct to an item or area to be cooled such as clutch. The ducting is connected to said fan shroud by means of an outlet duct which is substantially in the center of the outer periphery of the fan shroud. Disposed within the shroud and pivoted at a point near the periphery of the fan is an air deflector element. A free end of the deflector element is swingable from one side of the outlet ducts to the other side to close off one or the other of the outlet portions of the outlet duct, depending upon the direction of rotation of the fan.

Abstract: This invention pertains to gear reducers using the nutating principle. The tooth form is epicycloidal, but with the root or stem of the tooth also epicycloidal so that tooth contact between meshing teeth is essentially for one hundred eighty degress of arc of tooth contact with a uniting rather than a separating force. This tooth formation is used with a pinion beam rather than a pinion with two areas of teeth. This pinion beam has two rows of gear teeth with a relief therebetween for oil circulation. Cooling fins are provided on the housing which has a mechanism for restraining the rotational movement of the outer housing.

Abstract: A fluid cooled brake for a wheel mounted for rotation about a spindle at one end of an axle and including a plurality of annular friction discs mounted within a closed annular chamber between the wheel and the end of the axle. A pump is provided having a suction line to a sump of lubricating fluid within the axle. The pump draws lubricating fluid from the sump and delivers the fluid through a first fluid passage to the chamber to circulate around the friction discs and return through a second fluid passage to the sump.

Abstract: A recreational vehicle having an enclosed, air cooled, variable speed, split sheave V-belt transmission. The transmission is enclosed by a housing having cooperatively located intake and exhaust ports connected respectively to intake and exhaust air conduits. One sheave of each pulley of the transmission includes a plurality of air propelling fins to generate air flow through the housing.

Abstract: A rod seal device for a Stirling engine includes a piston rod connecting operating piston and a guide piston latter being served as a power take-off device, various seal members disposed between the two pistons and surrounding the outer peripheral portion of the rod. The seal device further includes a plurality of chambers disposed around the outer periphery of the rod between a working chamber of the engine and a working chamber of the power take-off for discharging any gas leaked therefrom or preventing any undesired mixture of the two different working gases.

Abstract: A rod seal device for a Stirling engine includes a high pressure oil chamber, an oil seal, and a low pressure oil chamber in series disposed between a compression chamber of the engine and a driving unit of power take-off. The oil seal includes an annular slit open to one end of the low pressure oil chamber for scraping oil from low pressure oil chamber to the high pressure oil chamber.

Abstract: A high speed toolholder for driving a small high speed cutting tool from the large slow speed spindle of a machining center comprises a housing having a retention pin extending from side end thereof. An input shaft, dimensioned to be received in the machining center spindle, is rotatably journaled into the toolholder housing parallel to the retention pin. Rotatably journaled into the opposite side of the housing so as to be coaxial with the input shaft is an output shaft whose distal end has a tapered bore therein dimensioned to receive the shank of a high speed cutting tool. Within the housing, each of the input and output shaft carry a separate one of a pair of sheaves which are each lined by a V-belt to a separate one of a pair of sheave members on a step sheave rotatably journaled in the housing parallel to the input and output shaft.

Abstract: A device which drives accessories such as an alternator or a cooling water pump utilizing output of an automobile engine, comprises an input shaft installed to an output shaft of the engine, a nonstage transmission with differential planetary mechanism of frictional transmission type installed between the shaft and a pulley connected to the accessory, a frictional transmission oil in an annular space enclosing the nonstage transmission, and forced cooling fans installed on both end plates of the pulley. Each forced cooling fan acts so that heat stored in the frictional transmission oil during the operation is effectively dissipated through the end plate to the outside. As a result, the transmission efficiency of the drive device is maintained at a high level.

Abstract: A supercharger for supplying a heat engine of a motor vehicle includes a main body having a working chamber in which rotate at least two bodies continuously sealed along at least one generatrix parallel to the axis of the main body and in which said chamber is in communication with an intake duct and an outlet duct. The main characteristic of this supercharger lies in the fact that it comprises constituent parts made with a relatively rigid supporting structure having an external form provided by moulding material onto the supporting structure.