Patent ID: 6843743
Filing Date: 2005-01-18
Classification: F16G

Abstract:
1. A belt for a continuously variable transmission comprising: a pair of metal ring assemblies supported in a corresponding pair of ring slots wherein each ring slot is formed in a plurality of metal elements and is defined by an element body, a neck, and an ear; said element body includes a pulley-abutment face abutting a V-face of a pulley and a saddle face that supports an inner peripheral surface of each metal ring assembly; and said ear includes a lower ear face opposite to an outer peripheral surface of each of said metal ring assemblies with a gap defined therebetween, wherein, in a state in which a laterally inner end of said metal ring assembly is abutting said neck, a laterally outer end of each of said metal ring assemblies is positioned at a location on a neck side of a line tangent to a laterally outer end of said element body and a laterally outer end of said ear, and wherein in said state the laterally outer end of each of said metal ring assemblies is positioned at a location outer than the laterally outer end of said ear.