It appears to be a standard design planetary gear set, except the planet=20
gears which normally have same number of teeth, are tapered teeth, and=20
there is a missing tooth (teeth) area to account for the tapered teeth.=20
Since there is the missing tooth area on all the planetary gears, they=20
must be meshed so that at least one tooth is in contact under load at=20
all times, but at least one, and probably 2 gears are not under load.=20
The strength (torque carrying ability) of a standard planetary gear set=20
(includes both the Sun, ring, and usually 3 planetary gears) is the=20
result of all planetary gears sharing the load. Here it appears, only=20
one planetary gear carries the full load, which means at least 1/3 the=20
load carrying ability. This could be less, since the standard planetary=20
gear set tends to deform under load to share the load.

On 7/15/2011 4:11 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> YES NOPE9 wrote:
>
>   =20
>> http://telaminc.com/page-title%207/cvtivt.htm
>>
>> 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 ?
>>     =20
> 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.
>
>   =20
>> Is this real or a scam ?
>>     =20
> 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...
>
> Gerhard
>   =20
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