Questions tagged [gears]
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Mechanical Engineering: Pulley Physics and Equivalent In Axial Rotational Gear Machinery
I have looked at pulley physics at this link and this link and this link. Conceptually, is there an equivalent method in physics to do something similarly in axial gear machinery so that the force ...
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Gear configuration for a legged hexapod
I have an assignment for my Mobile Robotics course to design the drive mechanism for a legged hexapod and demonstrate its gait in motion.
The idea is to design the hexapod as per the following ...
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How is the sliding velocity between two spiral gears derived?
How is the component of the velocity along the tooth equal to Vsinα for both the meshing gears?
Making the relative sliding velocity Vs = V1sinα + V1sinα
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How is the equivalent spur gear diameter of a helical gear equal to (d/cos^2α)?
The book I've got says that the equivalent spur gear radius(re) =
(Semi-major axis)^2/(Semi-minor axis) of the ellipse made by the cut-section normal to the teeth of the helical gear.
There is no ...
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Criteria for gear design
Updated with comments/answers from community to make more complete
I'm trying to understand why gears are designed in some specific way instead of another. So far my understanding is that:
energy is ...
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Motor Torque Required in a Reciprocating Compressor
I am working on a Univerity project involving a reciprocating compressor and I am having trouble verifying the motor's torque requirements. I am relatively happy with my calculation method, however, ...
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Can a face gear be designed with symmetrical teeth to enable the pinon to slide inwards-outwards?
A face gear tooth is asymmetrical (designed on Kissoft) in the direction towards the center vs the rim of the face gear. .
The pinon, on the other hand, is symmetrical along its tooth length. Would it ...
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How to scale up a gear's diameter, increasing number of teeth and keeping teeth size constant?
I'm trying to use a gear system to run a rotating circuit board which will be attached to the larger of two gears.
I have a set smaller gear for the rotation which has 0.350" diameter gear with ...
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How do I calculate the ideal travel distance of the ball screw per revolution of the stepper or per step for the following hardware?
Question How do I calculate the ideal travel distance of the ball screw per revolution of the stepper / per step for the following hardware (I believe this is called the lead)?
Background I have a pre-...
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Calculating the output torque of a two-input epicyclic gear system
For a simple planetary gear system with a single input shaft of a known torque, the output torques of the other two shaft can be calculated using the equations below (for a steady state system).
If I ...
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Can this SpaceX Starlink ground station antenna's gear mechanism move it in both altitude and azimuth?
Ars Technica's Teardown of “Dishy McFlatface,” the SpaceX Starlink user terminal links to the YouTube video Starlink Teardown: DISHY DESTROYED! and a screenshot from there is shown below.
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Sprokets on rotating body
Sorry I'm having a migrane and can't think rn, which is why I am posting such a basic question for confirmation...
The above diagram shows two sprockets on a beam which is attached to a driven gear.
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What is the angle of twist in end point A?
Can anyone please explain this question to me? I am okay with answering a gear assembly with 2 gears at a time. But the third one here is confusing me.
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What are the limits of small 3D printed gears?
How much tangential force should I expect a 10~20mm pitch diameter/1.5mm gear module 3D printed rack and pinion system to support without breaking nor sliding?
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Does it matter what direction a herringbone gear turns?
Obviously, the forces and pressures should mostly be the same, but just in reverse. But when play, flex, and such are accounted for, are there any subtle differences to having a herringbone gear turn ...
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Involute Gear Tooth Width Explanation
I was reading: https://www.tec-science.com/mechanical-power-transmission/involute-gear/geometry-of-involute-gears/
Which goes over construction of involute gears, Everything else makes sense but I am ...
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How do I interpret this DC motor datasheet?
Problem summary:
I need to produce about 0.289 Nm with a rack and pinion system and compress 24 mm of a 110 mm x 21.6 mm, 0.99 N/mm steel spring.
I thought about using with a 10mm pitch diameter gear ...
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Advice on spring launcher project
I found an ingenious design of a spring ball launcher on grabcad and I'm interested in adapting it to accelerate a $43.7 \mathrm{~mm}$ diameter, $45 \mathrm{~g}$ golf ball enough to reach $65.5 \...
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What generates more friction? Spur gears or a timing belt?
In my project a knob (usually rotated by hand) can be turned also by a stepper motor. On the other hand, when the motor is not energized, the knob can be rotated manually as normally.
To transmit the ...
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Right angle gearbox, proper name or design
I'm looking for right angle gearbox, but everything is horrible expensive or in parts like two bevel gears from aliexpress.
Where I can find or how to name transmission like this in the picture but in ...
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Gears with tilting shafts
I am looking for the following mechanism:
A pair of gears initially in side-by-side arrangement.
The shaft of the first gear is fixed to a first plate. The shaft of the second gear is fixed to a ...
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one way bearing in solidworks
I'm relatively new to solidworks and i would like to know if there is a way to mate a bearing in solidworks such that it acts as a one way bearing. In the rack and pinion setup in the figure, the rack ...
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Designing a hypoid gear set for 3D printing
I want to design a hypoid gear set with a ratio 2:1 for 3D printing with an ofset of 8 mm but I do not know where to start.
Otvinta.com has a calculator and a tutorial to go with it but the gears do ...
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Automatic compression of springs
I am trying to design something for a friend, but am struggling to come up with the mechanics. Can you help?
So imagine a long extendable pole, like a bow staff. Imagine after pulling out a "peg&...
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Gear Ratio of a Stepped Planetary Gearset
I was looking into planetary gearsets, and came upon the concept of a stepped planetary gearset. In the image shown above, if my input was the blue sun gear, the output was the planet gear, and the ...
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What is a gearbox with switchable outputs called?
I need a mechanism with which one motor can drive one of two outputs. So only one output should be active at a time, but the mechanism should be able to switch between the outputs.
What is a mechanism ...
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Can we reduce pitch of a lead screw to reduce backlash of the lead screw?
In gear design, the backlash is introduced in the design itself (not by tolerances of manufacturing) to allow free meshing of the gears. The backlash in the design can be minimized by reducing the ...
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Why does a gear have extra holes?
In a gear you normally have a center hole for the shaft to be put into. Why do some gears have holes surrounding that center hole?
Is it for weight reasons? Does it add stability? Is it so you can add ...
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Building a custom indirect actuator, any thoughts?
I’m trying to create a custom indirect actuator, that is controlled by a microcontroller, for a custom robotics project.
I have selected motor and gears (according to Fd = W = T2*pi) so that the ...
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Volumetric oil pump efficiency goes up when viscosity goes down?? Strange behaviour
Riddle me this : we are driving an external gear pump (this kind) at a fixed RPM.
At start, when the oil temperature is low (and viscosity high), the volumetric flow is much less than when the oil ...
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Optimum spoke shape for wheels made of solid material
Currently I am designing a bicycle sprocket to be laser-cut out of 3mm steel. Steel is heavy, so I want to make some lightening cut-outs, and I want to optimize the shape of the cutouts. I will ...
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Use of pulleys in gearboxes
I'm designing a simple gearbox with some fairly strict space constraints. I was wondering if having a belt pulley inside of a custom gearbox is a serious issue for the belt. Would it get worn down ...
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Does a gear retain its mechanical advantage in a 1 2 1 ratio?
For example if the first gear has 32 teeth and the second 64, if the third also has 32 teeth would the output of the third retain the mechanical advantage created by the first 32 tooth gear powering ...
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I'm looking for the simplest way to increase rotational speed from 120 to 5,000 rpm for a light duty device
I'm currently designing a device and want to increase speed from 120 to 5,000 rpm. Device is lightweight, hand operated, free spinning, low torque in/out. Picture a cheap fertilizer spreader from Home ...
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Precision of a steeper motor and gears vs multiple motors
We are a student team trying to design a low cost CNC plasma cutting machine.
The CNC will be a table with two rails and a bridge moving on them in which the head of the plasma torch will be.
Now we ...
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Friction versus ratcheting pawl
We are working to design a lock mechanism and need to hold a square plunger out of a hole for extended periods of time (potentially years). The square plunger is under pressure from springs to return ...
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Determining the torque needed for a servo motor
I'm looking for a bit of clarity on a design I have in mind. Please bear with me as I have no background in physics, engineering and this is part of my first real DIY project, so the knowledge base ...
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How to calculate gear tooth position while assembling a planet gear?
A stepped planet series gear looks like this:
Given that:
Planet gears are evenly distributed (with 120°)
Sun-gear-1 and Sun-gear-2 is lined up.
Sun gear tooth counts: nS1, nS2
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Does the torque on gear varies with different gear arrangements?
Suppose that there is a gearbox with gear ratio 3000:3. The gear with 3000 rpm will have a smaller torque than the 3 rpm gear.
My question is that will for different gear arrangement(i.e planetary ...
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Worm Drive Clutching Mechanism
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I have a project where I will need to be able to engage and disengage a worm drive (actually two of them). The worm drives are quite small. The worm gear is 49.2mm in diameter ...
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Delivering RPM from a fixed wheel to a moving wheel
I have spent the past few days thinking about a good way to get power/RPM from a fixed wheel delivered to a wheel that is able to move in a 2D plane relative to the fixed wheel. I am not too good at ...
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Can we calculate the torque acting on the last gear determine teeth of the gears of the gear train in the below addressed manner?
The specifications of the generator is as follows:
Efficiency- 70%
Rated Torque- 0.56Nm
Rated current- 14.3A
Voltage- 24V
Rotor shaft dimension- 1cm(diameter)
The ...
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Feasability of glass gears?
I recently saw a video where a glassblower was making something, and one of the first steps was to push the wad of molten glass down into a shaper with a number of vertical spikes, such that the ...
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Adding the effects of two rods to move a single rod
I have to deal with a situation where I have two parallel and completely independent rods whose motion is dependent only on external inputs, and I want to add up the lengths traveled by each rod.
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Gear mechanism for automatic gate
I have a sliding gate installed on my compound wall. I want to control the gate opening/closing with a motor. I have the electronic circuitry to control motor start/stop. I m thinking about attaching ...
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How to fix a shaft in position, vertically [duplicate]
I am doing a project where I have to mount a gear shaft with two bearings on either end (deep groove ball bearings) but I am worried that they may fall through the bearings during operation as the ...
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Vertical gear shaft support
I have a question regarding how are the vertical forces on a spur gear shaft are supported. I am currently doing my undergraduate (in final year) and have only dealt with gearboxes where the shafts ...
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Geometric constraints on Planetary Gears
I would like to design a single stage planetary gearbox using standard gears.
There appears to be three primary conditions to ensure the geometry of the gears will fit - correct center distance, ...
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Engage and disengage DC motor from free-spinning reel
So i want to have a reel (~4cm diameter) that will pull a ~80cm string with a torque of ~8kg-cm (edit: thanks for the clarification). To pull I want to use a gear motor. E.g. 12V DC motor like this:
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Key fitting - Shafts and Gears
I am designing a gearbox and wanted to know whether the key on the shaft and gear must fit exactly with the bore in the gear and keyway in the shaft.
Ex. If there is a key that is 3x3 mm, and does the ...
