YES NOPE9 wrote:

> http://telaminc.com/page-title%207/cvtivt.htm=20
>=20
> I have looked at the video of this device and it is either misleading
> or I am missing something. At first I thought maybe it was using a
> harmonic drive scheme but now I am not so sure. Does the green ring
> with 3 holes have to move parallel to the green shaft to change the
> ratio ? Is there a solid shaft running through the blue gears to two
> smaller orange gears that mesh with single larger orange gear ?

AIUI: The green shaft turns. The blue cones are connected to the green
shaft and turn inside that big green ring with the teeth inside (which
does not turn). The horizontal position of the green ring determines the
rotational speed of the blue cones, because their effective tooth number
changes with the position. The rotation of the blue cones is transmitted
to the orange output shaft through some yellow (?) gears inside that
orange output gear.

So, yes, IMO the green ring needs to move horizontal (parallel to the
shafts) to change the ratio.

> Is this real or a scam ?

Looks real to me, but a bad drawing/animation to demonstrate the
function :)

It seems that the special trick here is that the blue cones don't have
teeth all the way around, but the non-tooth areas are distributed in a
way that always at least one blue tooth has a grip against the green
ring.

Not sure why John says they are not gears/teeth...=20

Gerhard
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