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  2. Epicyclic gearing - Wikipedia

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    This planetary gear train consists of a sun gear (yellow), planet gears (blue) and carrier (green) inside a ring gear (red) An 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") revolves around the center of the other (the "sun").

  3. Simpson planetary gearset - Wikipedia

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    Simpson Planetary Gearset Schematic Diagram. The two planetaries are interdependent via two permanent connections, that commonly but not necessarily have the same gears and gear ratios, both gearsets share a common sun gear. The planet carrier of the first gearset ("first" means closer to the input shaft) is in synchrony with the second gearset ...

  4. Ravigneaux planetary gearset - Wikipedia

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    The Ravigneaux gearset is a double planetary gear set, invented by Pol Ravigneaux, who filed a patent application on July 28, 1949, in Neuilly-sur-Seine France. [1] This planetary gear set, commonly used in automatic transmissions, is constructed from two gear pairs, ring–planet and planetplanet. The gearset provides four forward gear ...

  5. Transmission (mechanical device) - Wikipedia

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    Transmission internals for a 2009 Volkswagen Golf. A transmission (also called a gearbox) is a mechanical device which uses a gear set—two or more gears working together—to change the speed, direction of rotation, or torque multiplication/reduction in a machine.

  6. Lepelletier gear mechanism - Wikipedia

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    In 1992, Lepelletier proposed three degrees of freedom epicyclic gear mechanisms. [1] These are now called Lepelletier gear mechanisms. [2] The Lepelletier gearbox is constructed by connecting a planetary gear to a Ravigneaux gear. [3]

  7. Reduction drive - Wikipedia

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    A planetary reduction drive is a small scale version using ball bearings in an epicyclic arrangement instead of toothed gears. Reduction drives are used in engines of all kinds to increase the amount of torque per revolution of a shaft: the gearbox of any car is a ubiquitous example of a reduction drive.

  8. Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The Moon train starts with gear b1 and proceeds through c1, c2, d1, d2, e2, e5, k1, k2, e6, e1, and b3 to the Moon pointer on the front face. The gears k1 and k2 form an epicyclic gear system; they are an identical pair of gears that do not mesh, but rather, they operate face-to-face, with a short pin on k1 inserted into a slot in k2. The two ...

  9. Sun and planet gear - Wikipedia

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    The Whitbread Engine of 1785. The sun and planet gear is a method of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion and was used in the first rotative beam engines.. It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, but was patented by James Watt in October 1781.