Patent ID: 9494212
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: F16G

Claim Text:
1. Transverse segment ( 32 ) for a drive belt ( 3 ) for a continuously variable transmission, which drive belt ( 3 ) comprises at least two carrier rings ( 31 ) and a number of these transverse elements ( 33 ) that are mutually arranged slideably on the carrier rings ( 31 ), in which transverse segment ( 32 ) at least two recesses ( 33 ) are provided for the accommodation of at least one of the carrier rings ( 31 ) each, which recesses ( 33 ) extend over the thickness of the transverse segment ( 32 ) between a front main body surface ( 39 ) and a rear main body surface ( 38 ) thereof and which recesses ( 33 ) are delimited in one direction, being a radially inward direction relative to the drive belt ( 3 ), by radially outward facing saddle surfaces ( 42 ) of the transverse segment ( 32 ) that support a radial inside of the carrier rings ( 31 ) and that are provided with a convex curvature in the axial direction of the drive belt ( 3 ) defining a most radially outwardly located highest point (HP 2 ) on the saddle surfaces ( 42 ) that is located outside a geometric midpoint (MP) of the saddle surfaces ( 42 ), wherein the saddle surfaces ( 42 ) to the longer side thereof relative to the highest point (HP 2 ) are more sharply curved than an opposite, shorter side thereof, at least on average.