Patent ID: 9334923
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: F16G

Claim Text:
1. A metal belt for a continuously variable transmission, the metal belt being wound around a drive pulley and a driven pulley so as to transmit driving force, in which the metal belt includes a plurality of metal elements which are supported by a metal ring assembly, and in order to adjust gaps between the metal elements, a plurality of adjuster metal element groups are disposed on the metal belt at predetermined intervals, each of the adjuster metal element groups including at least two or more continuous adjuster metal elements whose thickness differs from that of the metal elements, wherein the intervals between the plurality of adjuster metal element groups are set so as to avoid that the number of the adjuster metal element groups simultaneously existing on a driving-side chord portion of the metal belt between the drive pulley and the driven pulley is 2 or more.