An agricultural harvester has a header and feeder drive system including a forward belt drive arrangement and a reverse belt drive arrangement. The forward belt drive arrangement includes a forward drive belt and a forward belt drive tensioner operated by an actuator. The reverse belt drive arrangement includes a reversing motor and a reverse drive belt selectively engaged with the feeder drive system by operation of the same actuator.

A method for improving a start-up of an internal combustion engine with the aid of a belt-driven starter generator which includes a stator winding and a rotor winding, the starter generator for generating a start-up torque being operated in such a way that the stator winding and the rotor winding are energized essentially at the same time immediately after a start-up request of the starter generator. Also described is a processing unit to perform the method and a computer readable medium.

An automatic belt tensioner for a hybrid vehicle is disclosed. The automatic belt tensioner includes an arm body including an upper arm on which first and second idlers are mounted and a lower arm on which a third idler is mounted. The automatic belt tensioner further includes a spring provided between the upper arm and the lower arm and providing elastic force for relative longitudinal movement of the upper arm and the lower arm, and a rail bracket mounting the arm body on an engine and guiding relative longitudinal vertical motion of the arm body.

A hydraulic tensioning device for a chain drive, including tensioning piston, which is guided in a holder and which has locking grooves on the outer peripheral surface of the tensioning piston, and including a locking element, which has at least two annular sections and at least two radial extensions, wherein the locking element can be brought into engagement with one of the locking grooves by the at least two annular sections, and including a clamping stop and a sliding stop, which are axially spaced apart from each other. In order to simplify the design, the holder has at least two axial extensions, which extend in the axial direction between the clamping stop plane and the sliding stop plane. The at least two axial extensions and the tensioning piston do not enclose the at least two radial extensions.

An engine system includes a frame, a prime mover, and drive-belt system. The prime mover is coupled with the frame for movement therewith. The drive-belt system includes a wheel configured to be driven by the prime mover about a rotation axis and to transmit energy to an accessory unit.

A blind having a blind operating mechanism and a blind control element and having an enclosure for the blind control element, with the element completely enclosed, a connector supporting the enclosure on the blind, and depending downwardly, and an opening disposed by the enclosure to permit access to the blind control element, and a closure to permit access to the opening in one position and bar access to the opening in a second position.

To provide a tensioner capable of keeping, with a simple structure, oil pressure in an oil pressure chamber stable. The tensioner includes a pressure adjusting mechanism that adjusts oil pressure in the oil pressure chamber. The pressure adjusting mechanism includes a cylinder part, a piston unit set inside the cylinder part so as to be able to approach and separate from the oil pressure chamber, and piston biasing units that bias the piston unit toward the oil pressure chamber. A liquid tight seal condition is kept between the cylinder part and the piston unit at any position between a position where the piston unit has moved closest to the oil pressure chamber and a position where the piston unit has moved closest to the adjustment space. The piston biasing units include at least two piston springs.

A product for applying tension is disclosed. The product may include a block with a first bore opening into to the block. A body may be provided having a second bore substantially larger in diameter than the first bore. The body may be positioned against the block so that the first bore is open to the second bore. The body may have a passage for providing fluid to a pressure chamber from the second bore. The passage may be arranged to open to the second bore and form a tangent to the second bore. Fluid may flow from the first bore to the pressure chamber through the second bore and the passage substantially unimpeded. Fluid flow is impeded from the passage to the first bore as a result of the configuration of the first bore, second bore and passage.

A tensioner which adjusts the mean tensioner force to keep the chain tension as low as possible without sacrificing chain control, significantly improving drive efficiency as the chain wears and is subject to low dynamic loads.

The invention relates to a belt tensioning device for a crusher or a screening machine for tensioning at least one circulating drive belt (20) which is deflected about a belt pulley (12) of a drive (10) and has a load strand (21) and an empty strand (22). The drive (10) can be driven with a crushing assembly, a screening unit, a generator, or the like of the crusher by means of the drive belt (20). The vibrational stress acting on the machine chassis can be significantly reduced in that the belt tensioning device has two tensioning rollers (47), each of which is rotatably mounted on a holder (41, 51) of a tensioning part (40, 50). One tensioning roller (47) is paired with the empty strand (22) and the other is paired with the load strand (21). Additionally, the two tensioning parts (40, 50) can be adjusted relative to each other between an open position and a tensioning position, in which the tensioning parts are held against each other at least opposite the tensioning direction, in particular the tensioning parts can be blocked against each other, and the complete closed system can be freely moved linearly using actuators (44.2) according to the load situation.