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    ring gear, or the sun gear—stationary, three different gear ratios can be realized. Epicyclic gearing or planetary gearing is a gear system consisting of...
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    Drive gear 3. Output gears 4. Planetary gears 5. Carrier 6. Input gear 7. Input shaft (driveshaft) An epicyclic differential uses epicyclic gearing to send...
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    of the Moon's elliptical orbit, through the earliest extant use of epicyclic gearing. It also tracked the precession of the moon's elliptical orbit around...
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    for gears of particular actual radii are then derived from that. The rack and pinion gear type is also used in a rack railway. In epicyclic gearing, one...
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    planetary or epicyclic gears. The gears and lubricants are sealed within the shell of the hub gear, in contrast with derailleur gears where the gears and mechanism...
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    (2008-01-01). "Nomographs for enumeration of clutching sequences associated with epicyclic-type automatic transmission mechanisms" (PDF). InASME International Mechanical...
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    in mesh in an epicyclic layout. Changing gear with the Wilson box relied on the control of the brake bands that held each epicyclic's annulus in fixed...
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  • freedom epicyclic gear mechanisms. These are now called Lepelletier gear mechanisms. The Lepelletier gearbox is constructed by connecting a planetary gear to...
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    Internal gearing is so called because all the gears involved are hidden within a wheel hub. Hub gears work using internal planetary, or epicyclic, gearing which...
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    sophisticated knowledge of differential gearing or epicyclic gearing, two key principles in machine theory that helped design the gear trains of the Industrial Revolution...
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    Powertrain Wheel train (horology) Outline of machines Epicyclic gearing - related to turboprop reduction gear boxes Continuously variable transmission (CVT)...
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    equipment Hydraulics Cylinder Manifold Pump Mechanism Clock Differential Epicyclic gearing Gimbal Gyroscope Whippletree MEMS Pneumatics Compressor Jackhammer...
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    Torque multiplier (category Gears)
    typically employ an epicyclic gear train having one or more stages. Each stage of gearing multiplies the torque applied. In epicyclic gear systems, torque...
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    Shimano Alfine (category Epicyclical gearing)
    introduced at Eurobike in 2006, included the epicyclic hub gear SG-S500. The internal mechanical design of the gear hub was based on that of the Shimano Nexus...
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    increasingly accurate water clocks incorporated complex segmental and epicyclic gearing, water wheels, and programmability, advances which eventually made...
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    two-wheel drive. Most Fastrac axles have a central differential and epicyclic gearing reduction units built into the hub ends, where the wheel bolts. The...
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    dual-clutch transmissions. Hydraulic automatic transmission (cutaway view) Epicyclic gearing diagram, as used in hydraulic automatic transmissions Cutaway view...
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    relative to size at the cost of requiring sliding contact. Epicyclic gearing Cycloid gear – A gear tooth shape based on the cycloid Harmonic drive "Shimpo...
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  • (symbol) (Sonnenrad in German) Sun cross Swastika Component of an epicyclic gearing system Former name of Pixar Pal-A-Round, a Ferris wheel in Anaheim...
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    equipment Hydraulics Cylinder Manifold Pump Mechanism Clock Differential Epicyclic gearing Gimbal Gyroscope Whippletree MEMS Pneumatics Compressor Jackhammer...
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    sophisticated knowledge of differential gearing or epicyclic gearing, two key principles in machine theory that helped design the gear trains of the Industrial revolution...
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    Ravigneaux planetary gearset (category Epicyclical gearing)
    forward speeds, and reverse. US patent 2631476, Ravigneaux, "Epicyclic Change-Speed Gear", issued 1953-03-17  Jim Smart (March 2012). "Understand Automatic...
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    clutch-brake that was coupled to the rotor by one or two stages of reduction gearing. The clutch-brake locked up when rotated backwards, but also had some spring...
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    equipment Hydraulics Cylinder Manifold Pump Mechanism Clock Differential Epicyclic gearing Gimbal Gyroscope Whippletree MEMS Pneumatics Compressor Jackhammer...
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    some bicycle brakes. A former application was the locking of gear rings in epicyclic gearing. In modern automatic transmissions this task has been taken...
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    Shimano Nexus (category Epicyclical gearing)
    products such as epicyclical gear hubs, cranksets, shifters, brake levers, hub brakes, hub dynamos, and a CPU for automatically changing gears. The series...
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  • Steering was by side lever (or tiller) not wheel. The gearbox used epicyclic gearing. The first cars were sold to the public in 1901. In 1902 Lanchester...
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    transmitted through it. Thus, it did not contravene the crank patent. Epicyclic gearing http://himed.net/TheHopkinThomasProject/TimeLine/Wales/Steam/Jame...
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  • Planetary Society, the Earth's largest space interest group Epicyclic gearing (planetary gearing), an automotive transmission technology Planetary scanner...
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    multi-stage epicyclic gearing mechanism to multiply torque output. Torque is applied to the input gear which engages with a number of planet gears which are...
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