Monday, 27 November 2017

Automotive Transmission components: Gears and Shafts

A transmission means gears working together. Main components for transmission: gears and shafts. A Gear or cogwheel means a rotating machine part which has cut teeth or cogs which meshes with another similar part to transmit power. There are two types of gears are external and internal. External gears have teeth on the outer surface. Internal gears have teeth on the inner surface. The other types of gears are Spur gear, Helical gear, Double helical gear, Bevel gear, Spiral bevels gear, Hypoid gear, Crown gear, Worm gear, etc. Rotating machine element which transmits power from one part to another part is called shaft. Usually, gears are mounted on it. There are two types of shafts Transmission shafts and Machine shafts. Transmission gears and shafts are the key components because of which we are driving our cars today.

Types of Transmission
There are two types of Transmission
Automatic Transmission: In Automatic Transmission, the cars change the gears automatically.

Manual Transmission: In Manual Transmission the driver changes the gears using the clutch.   

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