Even before the Industrial Revolution, gears of one kind or another have been put to work both for and against us. From ancient water wheels and windmills that ground grain and pounded flax, to the ...

(Nanowerk News) Gear trains have been used for centuries to translate changes in gear rotational speed into changes in rotational force. Cars, drills, and basically anything that has spinning parts ...

The challenges of fabricating micromotors and geartrains with comparable size to a human cell. The problems of powering such motors. How metasurfaces allow projected laser output to power these ...

This article was updated Feb. 28, 2023. It was originally published March 1, 2000. Planetary gears can supply high levels of torque and high-speed reduction. They are also relatively compact compared ...

Noisy gear trains have been common problem for design engineers for a long time. rowning can reduce vibration and limit noise without increasing costs. Noisy gear trains have been common problem for ...

Automatic transmission systems (ATSs) are critical components in modern vehicles, integrating complex gear mechanisms to optimise performance, efficiency and durability. These systems utilise an array ...