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What is gearbox?
Types of Transmission
Manual Transmission
Automatic Transmission
Semi-Automatic Transmission
Manual Transmisison
Gear Ratio:
A gear (or cog, or sprocket) in its most basic form is a flat circular object that has
teeth cut into the edge of it. The most basic type of gear is called a spur gear, and it
has straight-cut teeth, where the angle of the teeth is parallel to the axis of the gear.
The number of teeth cut into the edge of a gear determines its scalar relative to
other gears in a mechanical system. For example, if you mesh together a 20-tooth
gear and a 10-tooth gear, then drive the 20-tooth gear for one rotation, it will cause
the 10-tooth gear to turn twice.
Gear ratios are calculated by divinding the number of teeth on the output gear by the
number of teeth on the input gear. So the gear ratio here is output/input, 10/20 =
1/2 = 1:2
Practical execution
What is gearbox?
Spur gears:
Helical Gears:
Bevel Gears:
Worm Gears:
Automatic Transmission
The key difference between a manual and an automatic
Planetary Gears
Gear ratios
Any planetary gearset has three main components:
The sun gear
Torque Converter
A torque converter is a type offluid coupling, which allows the
Working
The pump inside a torque converter is a type of centrifugal
DSG/DCT Gearbox
gearboxes in one.
When a driver wants to change from one gear to another in a standard
stick-shift car, he first presses down the clutch pedal, which
disconnects the engine from the gearbox and interrupts power flow to
the transmission. Then the driver select a new gear.
Once the new gear is engaged, the driver releases the clutch pedal,
which re-connects the engine to the gearbox and transmits power to
the wheels.
So, in a conventional manual transmission, there is not a continuous
flow of power from the engine to the wheels. Instead, power delivery
changes from on to off to on during gearshift, causing a phenomenon
known as "shift shock" or "torque interrupt."
For an unskilled driver, this can result in passengers being thrown
forward and back again as gears are changed.
made of two 20-degree cones facing each other. A belt rides in the
groove between the two cones.
When the two cones of the pulley are far apart (when the diameter
increases), the belt rides lower in the groove, and the radius of the belt
loop going around the pulley gets smaller. When the cones are close
together (when the diameter decreases), the belt rides higher in the
groove, and the radius of the belt loop going around the pulley gets
larger.
CVTs may use hydraulic pressure, centrifugal force or spring tension
to create the force necessary to adjust the pulley halves.
Variable-diameter pulleys must always come in pairs. One of the
pulleys, known as the drive pulley (or driving pulley), is
connected to the crankshaft of the engine. The driving pulley is also
called the input pulley because it's where the energy from the
engine enters the transmission.
The second pulley is called the driven pulley because the first pulley
Toroidal CVT
Hydrostatic CVT
There is another type of CVT, known as a hydrostatic CVT,
Semi-automatic differential
A semi-automatic transmission is a transmission that does not
Differential
A differential is a device, usually, but not necessarily,
Locking Differential
A locking differential, diff-lock or locker is a variation on the
2WD,4WD,AWD
Two wheel drive or 2WD describes vehicles with a drivetrain that allows