Planetary gears mesh with the sun and ring gears at several locations. This means more teeth are engaged to drive the load than in conventional gear-and-pinion meshes.

The gear ratios allow you to apply more torque without needing a long handle. As you may have guessed, the internal arrangement is a planetary gear drive.

Engineers at IMS Gear Planetary Gears Inc., with U.S. headquarters in Virginia Beach (www.imsgear.com), have designed a range of modular planetary gears that give OEMs and designers a choice of ...

On the global stage of the intelligent industry, Qingshan Industry grandly showcased its latest electric drive products at the Chongqing International Expo Center on September 5, 2025, attracting the ...

The most important pedal here is the left pedal, which, when depressed, will engage the planetary gears and rotate the driveshaft in low-gear.

Low-range reductions come in two flavors as well: gear-to-gear reduction or a planetary gear reduction assembly.

Marmon-Herrington’s Sisu 90,000-pound tandem-axle and 136,000-pound tridem-axle sets are double-reduction planetary drive axles suited for heavy-duty applications such as mining, heavy haul and ...

A greater selection of planetary drives has been introduced into South Africa and includes SEW-EURODRIVE’s SEW PPK series and the SEW P2.e series of planetary gear units. SEW-EURODRIVE company ...

According to the working characteristics of a 1.5MW wind turbine planetary gear system under complex and random wind load, a two-parameter Weibull distribution model is used to describe the ...