Patent ID: 9086121
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: F16H

Abstract:
1. A chain guide comprising: a guide shoe that slidingly guides a running chain; and a guide main body that supports the guide shoe along the chain running direction, and further comprising reinforcing ribs extending in a height direction of the guide main body, the guide main body having two support points at a predetermined distance L from each other in a longitudinal direction that are constituted by a mounting portion or a pushing portion; the reinforcing ribs being provided in the vicinity of the two support points, and a zone in which the reinforcing ribs are not present is provided in an intermediate portion between the two support points; the reinforcing ribs including first inclined reinforcing ribs that extend obliquely to withdraw from a sliding guide surface of the guide shoe in a direction from a longitudinally central side of the guide main body towards both end sides, and second inclined reinforcing ribs that extend obliquely to approach the sliding guide surface of the guide shoe in the direction from the longitudinally central side of the guide main body towards both end sides; and the first inclined reinforcing ribs and the second inclined reinforcing ribs are provided so as to cross each other.