Gearless Cycloidal Speed Reducer

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This Demonstration shows a cycloidal speed reducer, which consists of a stator (blue) housing three rotating parts: the input shaft with its eccentric cam (green), the cycloidal rotor (gray), and the output disc (red). The output disc has a number of pins (red) that fit inside the drive holes (yellow) in the rotor.

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Substantial speed reductions can be achieved without the use of gears. The reduction obtained is equal to , where is the inside radius of the stator and is the radius of the rotor.

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Contributed by: Erik Mahieu (June 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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