Patent ID: 8591372

Claim:
A continuously variable transmission apparatus comprising: an input shaft that is adapted to be rotated by an external rotational force; an output shaft that is adapted to be rotated by a force transmitted from the input shaft; an input-side swing arm that is adapted to be swung about a swing axis thereof by the force transmitted from the input shaft; a support member, by which the input-side swing arm is swingably supported; a rotation-to-swing converting mechanism that converts a single directional rotational motion of the input shaft into a swing motion of the input-side swing arm; an output-side swing arm that is adapted to be swung about a swing axis thereof when the output-side swing arm is urged by a corresponding part of the input-side swing arm; a swing-to-rotation converting mechanism that converts a swing motion of the output-side swing arm into a single directional rotational motion of the output shaft; and an adjusting mechanism that adjusts an amount of swing of the output-side swing arm by changing a location of a point of action of the input-side swing arm relative to the output-side swing arm in a radial direction of the swing axis of the input-side swing arm.