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Re: Infinitely Variable Transmission (IVT)
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lugnet.technic
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Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:47:54 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Gerard Steenbeek writes:
> I have replicated some more technology used in agriculture.. ;) IVT
> transmissions are used in tractors for a few years, but are also appearing
> in busses, cars and other vehicles.
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> An IVT is a Type of CVT (continuously variable transmission). An IVT
> generally uses planetary gears. The engine is connected to the sun gear,
> planet gears are connected to 1 planet carrier and the whole thing runs
> inside a ring gear. The planet carrier is connected to an output shaft, the
> ring gear is connect to the engine but through a device that can speed up or
> slow down the speed. This is often done through hydrostatic drive, which
> allows variable speeds but is not powerful enough for heavy applications.
> Hydrostatic drive will do for the ring gear of an IVT.
This exact same result can be acheived with the humble differetial -
powering it with 2 motors, the output will be the sum of the two inputs.
ROSCO
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| (...) If you read the whole post you would have seen that I did built exactly that as well... All real life IVTs use planetary gears though, there must be a good reason for that. I will have to do some more research on why they use planetary (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| I have replicated some more technology used in agriculture.. ;) IVT transmissions are used in tractors for a few years, but are also appearing in busses, cars and other vehicles. An IVT is a Type of CVT (continuously variable transmission). An IVT (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.technic)
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