Realizing that it’s essentially a cycloidal drive meshed with a planetary gear set, he got to work in CAD and, in seemingly no time, had a design to test. You can see the full results of his ...

Hexu Yang, Xiaopeng Li, Jinchi Xu, Zemin Yang, Renzhen Chen, Dynamic characteristics analysis of planetary gear system with internal and external excitation under turbulent wind load, Science Progress ...

The rather interesting tech involves three planetary gear sets – each doing the usual dance with a sun gear, ring gear and planetary carrier – plus three "selectively engagable" clutches that ...

This gear drive was a new one on us. A normal planetary gear set in an automatic transmission or a Prius e-CVT consists of an outer ring gear and an inner sun gear connected by several planet ...