Wild new transmission - vid

[Knight]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6zE__J0YIU[/ame]

Don't know if it will ever be put into use in the automotive industry, but a cool design nonetheless.

[Soltakr]

brilliant.. now we'll see if it can be marketable and how cost effective it is.

[bills98ta]

Cool !!! I'd test it out !!!

[Tonik]

I see this man being very rich some day.

[pajeff02]

Looks cool -- need to watch this tonight when I don't have any interruptions.

[DrMilhouse]

This seems too simple.

It's a great idea and if it works out for him and he did his patent right and the market out there doesn't screw him over, he's gonna be a very wealthy man.

[Zapper2003]

I agree, Dr.


I was gonna try to talk, but my mind is fucked after watching that video.

[third_shift|studios]

here's a real mind fuck-add a rotary enegine to the front of it

[Zapper2003]

[DrMilhouse]

Just kinda my thinking that something that simple would have been thought of before and there's a reason it wasn't used. It is a cool idea and it makes clear sense.

The name is a little misleading, it's not really infinitely variable, but that's just details.

[Zapper2003]

it's infinitely variable in the range in which it operates.


Kinda like leaving out the most important detail of the story, but still reaching the end.

[bills98ta]

here's a real mind fuck-add a rotary enegine to the front of it

I was telling someone today about it, and said it reminded me of the rotary engine !!!

[bills98ta]

I'd think it would act & feel like a hydraulic drive...

[Zapper2003]

Alright, so, I just watched this video again, and here's my question.


At about 4 minutes, or 4:30, somewhere in there he goes through explaining how everything works. Now, when the small side-motor that controls the bottom shaft stops, full speed ahead to the output from the main engine. He then speeds up the small side-motor to create a 'powered neutral' as he calls it, where the speed of the main engine never changes, and the output comes to a stop. However, in switching the output to a reverse drive, the main motor continues its operation, however, the topshaft stops (the main power shaft, remember), and the bottom shaft driven by the smaller side-motor takes over and creates the reverse-drive of the output all while the topshaft of the motor never moves.


So correct me if I'm wrong, but in forward only are you effectively using the power from the main motor, and in reverse you are using the power from the smaller side motor. That's how I see it.

[Knight]

Just kinda my thinking that something that simple would have been thought of before and there's a reason it wasn't used. It is a cool idea and it makes clear sense.

The name is a little misleading, it's not really infinitely variable, but that's just details.

Technically, it has the ability to be infinitely variable being that as you apply more speed to the shafts, you now can create an infinite amount of gear ratios depending on how fast or slow you rotate the other shaft. In other words, you aren't limited to a set or defined gear ratio. I guess there could be an end to the ratios, but any change in speed would equal a gear ratio change. Maybe not enough to matter or feel, but a change nonetheless. I guess it is all in how you look at it. Guess we will just have to wait and see if it ever comes to production.

[bills98ta]

It would take an ECM to run it !!!

[Zapper2003]

Hah, here's an idea sparked by TS|S's rotary comment..


Anyone remember the MyT engine? Throw that bitch on there, make it a REAL concept in motion

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGlUZg2pC0Q[/ame]

[Tonik]

Hah, here's an idea sparked by TS|S's rotary comment..


Anyone remember the MyT engine? Throw that bitch on there, make it a REAL concept in motion

There are a lot of tiny, fragile, parts in that motor.

[Knight]

Anybody think the guy in the MyT vid looks like Tommy Chong? That'd be hilarious to see him trying to explain that idea.

[grouch0jr]

There are a lot of tiny, fragile, parts in that motor.

its a proof of concept prototype.