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  • Thumbnail for Cycloid gear
    to polish, and thereby reduce friction), and having fewer points of contact (both reducing friction and wear). Their gear tooth profile is based on the...
    7 KB (897 words) - 21:25, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friction motor
    A friction motor is a simple mechanism to propel toy cars, trucks, trains, action figures and similar toys. The motor consists of a large flywheel which...
    2 KB (316 words) - 01:49, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gear oil
    mostly to shear friction (with a small amount of heat conduction through the bellhousing from the engine block). Fully synthetic gear oils are also used...
    7 KB (1,064 words) - 13:04, 21 September 2023
  • The Metal Gear franchise features a large number of characters created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa. Its setting features several soldiers...
    235 KB (32,830 words) - 00:35, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Involute gear
    The involute gear profile is the most commonly used system for gearing today, with cycloid gearing still used for some specialties such as clocks. In...
    8 KB (904 words) - 00:18, 18 November 2024
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    Clutch (redirect from Friction plate clutch)
    disengaged). A dry clutch uses dry friction to transfer power from the input shaft to the output shaft, for example a friction disk presses against a car engine's...
    16 KB (2,287 words) - 17:28, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gear
    thrust than a comparable spur gear. A second disadvantage of helical gears is also a greater degree of sliding friction between the meshing teeth, often...
    83 KB (11,259 words) - 11:56, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friction drive
    A friction drive or friction engine is a type of transmission that utilises the static friction of two smooth surfaces (instead of contact pressure of...
    12 KB (1,423 words) - 13:06, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Worm drive
    Worm drive (redirect from Worm gear)
    a gear arrangement in which a worm (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm wheel (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear)....
    15 KB (1,876 words) - 21:25, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Automatic transmission
    combination of internal clutches, friction bands or brake packs. These devices are used to lock certain gears, thus setting which gear ratio is in use at a given...
    44 KB (5,035 words) - 21:01, 2 October 2024
  • Idler-wheel (redirect from Idler gear)
    crankshaft-to-camshaft gear train of an automobile. Because it does no work itself, it is called an "idler". An idler-wheel may be used as part of a friction drive mechanism...
    11 KB (1,838 words) - 20:44, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Transmission (mechanical device)
    the friction clutch used by most manual transmissions and dual-clutch transmissions. Hydraulic automatic transmission (cutaway view) Epicyclic gearing diagram...
    15 KB (1,487 words) - 18:11, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Epicyclic gearing
    epicyclic gear train (also known as a planetary gearset) is a gear reduction assembly consisting of two gears mounted so that the center of one gear (the "planet")...
    36 KB (5,317 words) - 18:29, 3 November 2024
  • leverage is widely used; see a (rotary) 2nd-class lever; see gears, pulleys or friction drive, used in a mechanical power transmission scheme. It is common...
    20 KB (2,954 words) - 02:01, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gear pump
    of the gears allows leakage and back flow. However sometimes higher clearances help reduce hydrodynamic friction and improve efficiency. Gear backlash:...
    6 KB (691 words) - 08:07, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timing belt (camshaft)
    a timing belt (also called a cambelt) or timing chain or set of timing gears is a perishable component used to synchronize the rotation of the crankshaft...
    18 KB (1,877 words) - 12:43, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Manual transmission
    the high sliding friction by the helical gear cut of the teeth (this cut eliminates the characteristic whine of straight-cut spur gears). On motorcycles...
    47 KB (6,270 words) - 22:20, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gear bearing
    of bearing gears is aimed at maximum rolling with minimum sliding friction of conjugated profiles in movement. End rollers limit the gears radial shift...
    4 KB (562 words) - 02:57, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arresting gear
    An arresting gear, or arrestor gear, is a mechanical system used to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands. Arresting gear on aircraft carriers is...
    22 KB (2,902 words) - 06:54, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Engine braking
    engaged gear, which in turn provides a certain amount of engine braking (viscous losses to the engine oil and air pumped through the engine and friction losses...
    12 KB (1,645 words) - 23:43, 14 September 2024
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