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The .22 Winchester Automatic (also known as the .22 Winchester Auto and occasionally .22 Win Auto) is a .22 in (5.6 mm) American rimfire rifle cartridge. Introduced for the Winchester Model 1903 semiautomatic rifle, [ 1 ] the .22 Win Auto was never used in any other firearm. [ 1 ]
A semi-automatic rifle is an auto-loading rifle that fires a single round of ammunition each time the trigger is pulled. It uses a part of the fired cartridge's energy to eject the case, and automatically loads another cartridge into its chamber.
Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) was a sanctioning body for American open-wheel car racing that operated from 1979 until dissolving after the 2003 season. CART was founded in 1979 by team owners formerly from the United States Auto Club (USAC) Championship Car division. The owners disagreed with the direction and leadership of USAC.
The predecessor of modern electronic traction control systems can be found in high-torque, high-power rear-wheel-drive cars as a limited slip differential.A limited-slip differential is a purely mechanical system that transfers a relatively small amount of power to the non-slipping wheel, while still allowing some wheel spin to occur.
Shaanxi Fast Auto Drive Group is one of the major automatic transmission manufacturers in China. It was founded in 1968, and formed a joint venture with Eaton Corporation . It is now the largest automatic transmission manufacturer in China.
TorqueFlite (also seen as Torqueflite) is the trademarked name of Chrysler Corporation's automatic transmissions, starting with the three-speed unit introduced late in the 1956 model year as a successor to Chrysler's two-speed PowerFlite.
The 9G-Tronic is fully electronically controlled. The shift elements are controlled via a new type of hydraulic direct control with electromagnetically actuated valves, which enables fast and smooth gear changes. Compared to the previous transmission, which had a hydraulic pilot control, leakage losses have been reduced by 80%. [8]
Freewheel mechanism Ratcheting freewheel mechanism (van Anden, 1869). In mechanical or automotive engineering, a freewheel or overrunning clutch is a device in a transmission that disengages the driveshaft from the driven shaft when the driven shaft rotates faster than the driveshaft.