Patents Assigned to Mitsuboshi Belting
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Patent number: 9127746Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with an inside, an outside, and a length. The body has a tension section and a compression section, and teeth and troughs alternating lengthwise of the body. A layer on the body in which the teeth are formed has a surface facing in one of an inside and outside direction on which alternating protrusions and recesses are formed against which another component on the body is placed and conforms.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi Onita, Akihiro Nagata
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Publication number: 20150247067Abstract: The present invention relates to a conductive composition containing a conductive metal powder and an epoxy resin component in which the conductive metal powder contains a metal flake and the epoxy resin component contains a polyfunctional epoxy resin having three or more epoxy groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: MITSUBOSHI BELTING LTD.Inventors: Taisuke Iseda, Masahiro Iwamoto
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Patent number: 9109656Abstract: A power transmission belt has a body with a length, a width, an inside and an outside. The body has at least one load carrying member embedded in rubber and extending in a lengthwise direction. The body defines a plurality of teeth spaced along the length of the belt on at least one of the inside and outside of the body. At least one of: (a) the at least one load carrying member has an occupying rate (R) that is not less than 75%, with R=n×Dc/B×100 where: n=number of load carrying members aligned along the width of the body; Dc=diameter of load carrying member(s); and B=width of the body; and (b) the at least one load carrying member has a cross-sectional area taken transversely to the length of the body that is in a range of 1.10 to 1.70 mm2 per 1 mm of belt width.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Izu, Masakuni Yoshida, Hirofumi Okabe
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Publication number: 20150104618Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic color paste containing a glass frit, a vehicle, a heat-resistant pigment and a large-diameter heat-resistant particle, in which the large-diameter heat-resistant particle has a particle size larger than the average thickness of a dried coating film for forming a ceramic color.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: MITSUBOSHI BELTING LTD.Inventors: Yoko Hayashi, Kotaro Kuroda, Masafumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 8951153Abstract: The present power transmission mechanism comprises: a first rotation member mounted integrally rotatably on the rotation shaft of a drive apparatus; a second rotation member rotatable integrally with or relative to the first rotation member; an elastic member interposed between the first and second rotation members which, when the first and second rotation members rotate relative to each other, absorbs a rotation difference between them; and, a switching portion which includes a mass member mounted on one of the first and second rotation members and rotatable integrally therewith, and an energizing member for energizing the mass member in a direction where it can be contacted with the other of the first and second rotation members.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Tomokazu Ishida, Hayato Shimamura
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Publication number: 20140378256Abstract: The present invention relates to a V-ribbed belt to be wound around plural pulleys and used, including an extension layer that forms a back surface of the V-ribbed belt, a compression layer provided on one surface of the extension layer and having plural ribs extending parallel to each other along a longitudinal direction of the V-ribbed belt, and a load carrying cord embedded between the extension layer and the compression layer along the longitudinal direction of the V-ribbed belt, in which a distance from an outer peripheral portion of the load carrying cord on the rib side to a tip portion of the rib is from 2.0 to 2.6 mm, and a distance from the outer peripheral portion of the load carrying cord on the rib side to a bottom portion of the rib is from 0.3 to 1.2 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Tamura, Hisato Ishiguro, Hiroshi Matsumura
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Patent number: 8911863Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an aramid core wire, containing a step of covering or impregnating an original yarn of an aramid core with a first treating agent containing a condensate of resorcin and formaldehyde, a latex and a water-soluble epoxy compound; an aramid core wire produced by the method; a transmission belt containing the aramid core wire; a method for producing the transmission belt; and a treating agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Matsumoto, Toshihiro Nishimura
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Patent number: 8871329Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with a length, an inside, and an outside. The body has a plurality of teeth formed on the inside of the body and spaced along the length of the body. The body has a first surface at the inside of the body defined at least in part by the teeth. A cloth component has a first side attached to the first surface and a second side exposed to engage a cooperating pulley. The cloth component has first fibers at the first side of the cloth component with a first performance characteristic and second fibers at the second side of the cloth component with a second performance characteristic. The first side of the cloth component has different properties than the second side of the cloth component by reason of the presence of the first and second fibers.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Masakuni Yoshida, Yasuyuki Izu
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Patent number: 8678965Abstract: An automatic tensioner includes a base, a rotary member to which a pulley around which a belt is wound can be attached, a coil spring including one end locked on the base and the other end locked on the rotary member, an elastic element including one end locked on one of the rotary member and the base and the other end which is a free end and extending along an inner circumferential surface of the other of the rotary member and the base, and a friction member connected so as to be brought into contact with the inner circumferential surface, wherein the coil spring is disposed in such a state that the coil spring is compressed in an axial direction and the friction member is pressed against the one of the rotary member and the base by a repulsive force attempting to expand in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Tomokazu Ishida, Ryosuke Dan
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Publication number: 20140051533Abstract: An auto-tensioner includes: a stationary member having a first cylindrical portion; a rotatable member having a second cylindrical portion at least partially overlapping the first cylindrical portion in a radial direction; and a drainage mechanism provided at a boundary part of the first and second cylindrical portions, including a water inlet configured by a gap between an outer peripheral surface of the first cylindrical portion and an outer peripheral surface of the second cylindrical portion and being open along a peripheral direction, a water passage which is configured by a gap between a water collecting groove formed along the peripheral direction in the outer peripheral surface of one of the two cylindrical portions and the other cylindrical portion, and communicates with the water inlet, and at least one drainage port formed in a peripheral wall on an outside in the radial direction of the water passageType: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: MITSUBOSHI BELTING LTD.Inventors: Tetsuo Yoneda, Katsuya Imai
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Publication number: 20130217528Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an aramid core wire, containing a step of covering or impregnating an original yarn of an aramid core with a first treating agent containing a condensate of resorcin and formaldehyde, a latex and a water-soluble epoxy compound; an aramid core wire produced by the method; a transmission belt containing the aramid core wire; a method for producing the transmission belt; and a treating agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: MITSUBOSHI BELTING LTD.Inventor: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
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Patent number: 8512186Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with a length, an inside and an outside. Teeth are spaced along the length of the body. The body is made of rubber in which at least one load carrying member is embedded. The load carrying member extends lengthwise of the body. The rubber in the body is made up of: a) 3 to 7 parts by mass of short fiber blended relative to 100 parts by mass of a polymer that is a hydrogenated nitrile rubber having unsaturated carboxylic acid metal salt formed by mixing the hydrogenated nitrile rubber and the unsaturated carboxylic acid metal salt at a mass ratio of from 100:100 to 100:180; and b) no more than 10 parts by mass of a powdery inorganic filler blended relative to 100 parts by mass of the polymer.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Mitsutomi, Takayuki Utsumi, Masakuni Yoshida
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Publication number: 20130150191Abstract: A drive pulley structure has a cylindrical pulley member, a hub structure that is provided inside the pulley member so as to rotate relative to the pulley member, a coil spring that is fixed to the hub structure, a tapering which has a conical round surface as of a cone whose axis is made up of a rotational axis J of the hub structure, and a frictional member that is inserted to be interposed between the conical round surface of the tapering and the pulley member, and the coil spring is inserted to be interposed in place while being compressed in the direction of the rotational axis of the hub structure, the tapering, the frictional member and the pulley member being brought into press contact with each other by virtue of a restoring force P of the coil spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: MITSUBOSHI BELTING LTD.Inventor: Tomokazu Ishida
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Patent number: 8329282Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body made at least in part from ethylene-?-olefin rubber. At least one load carrying member is embedded in the ethylene-?-olefin rubber. First, second and third films are formed on the load carrying member. The first film is made from at least one of an isocyanate compound and an epoxy compound, the second film from polybutadiene rubber, and the third film from an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Yosuke Sueto, Hideyuki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8262520Abstract: A pulley assembly has a first body to engage a power transmission belt. The first body is rotatable around a first axis. A second body is movable relative to the first body around the first axis. First and second axially spaced elastic members each has a radially inner portion and a radially outer portion. One of: (a) the radially inner portions of the first and second members; and (b) the radially outer portions of the first and second members are: (i) coupled to move together around the first axis; and (ii) each movable relative to the first and second bodies around the first axis. The other of: (a) the radially inner portions of the first and second members; and (b) the radially outer portions of the first and second members are fixedly coupled, one each to the first and second bodies, to follow movement of the first and second bodies around the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Hayato Shimamura, Chikara Kayamuro
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Patent number: 8235852Abstract: A power transmission belt having a body with a rubber layer defining spaced friction drive surfaces at laterally oppositely facing side surfaces. Short reinforcing fibers are embedded in the rubber layer in an amount of 15-50 parts by weight per 100 weight percent of rubber in the rubber layer. The short reinforcing fibers include polyamide short reinforcing fibers that make up at least 50 weight percent of the short reinforcing fibers embedded in the rubber layer. A plurality of the polyamide short reinforcing fibers project from the friction drive surfaces and have exposed, flattened ends. Flat particles of inorganic powder are adhered to the friction drive surfaces to reside captively between the flattened ends of the polyamide short reinforcing fibers and locations on the friction drive surfaces at which the short reinforcing fibers do not project.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Yorifumi Hineno, Takayuki Utsumi, Takeshi Nishiyama
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Patent number: 8177669Abstract: A pulley structure having a first rotating member that is rotatable around a first axis. A second rotating member is rotatable around the first axis and in at least partial axial coincidence with the first rotating member. A spring containing chamber is defined between the first and second rotating members. A spring, having axially spaced first and second ends defined by coils, extends around the first axis. At least one coil at each of the first and second axially spaced ends of the spring is radially biased relative to the first axis to thereby be frictionally held against each of the first and second rotating members to thereby allow forces generated by relative rotation between the first and second rotating members to be transmitted through the spring.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Tomokazu Ishida, Shgeru Kawamoto, Takeo Shimizu
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Publication number: 20120100945Abstract: The present power transmission mechanism comprises: a first rotation member mounted integrally rotatably on the rotation shaft of a drive apparatus; a second rotation member rotatable integrally with or relative to the first rotation member; an elastic member interposed between the first and second rotation members which, when the first and second rotation members rotate relative to each other, absorbs a rotation difference between them; and, a switching portion which includes a mass member mounted on one of the first and second rotation members and rotatable integrally therewith, and an energizing member for energizing the mass member in a direction where it can be contacted with the other of the first and second rotation members.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: MITSUBOSHI BELTING LTD.Inventors: Tomokazu Ishida, Hayato Shimamura
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Patent number: 8002922Abstract: A method of forming a power transmission belt including the steps of: providing a first layer made from rubber and having first and second oppositely facing sides; providing a mold; pressing the first side of the first layer conformingly against a surface on the mold having alternating projections and recesses to thereby form alternating teeth and troughs on the first layer; locally pressing the second side of the first layer at locations coinciding lengthwise with the teeth to thereby eliminate or prevent the formation of discrete holes; and joining the first layer, having the alternating teeth and troughs thereon, to at least one other component to define the power transmission belt.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2006Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi Onita, Akihiro Nagata
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Publication number: 20110201466Abstract: An automatic tensioner includes a base, a rotary member to which a pulley around which a belt is wound can be attached, a coil spring including one end locked on the base and the other end locked on the rotary member, an elastic element including one end locked on one of the rotary member and the base and the other end which is a free end and extending along an inner circumferential surface of the other of the rotary member and the base, and a friction member connected so as to be brought into contact with the inner circumferential surface, wherein the coil spring is disposed in such a state that the coil spring is compressed in an axial direction and the friction member is pressed against the one of the rotary member and the base by a repulsive force attempting to expand in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: MITSUBOSHI BELTING LTD.Inventors: Tomokazu Ishida, Ryosuke Dan