Kinematics of the full-toroidal traction drive variator

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 448-455

  Raghavan, Madhusudan ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; KINEMATICS; ROLLERS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); TRACTION (FRICTION); VECTORS;

TRACTION DRIVE VARIATORS;

MECHANICAL DRIVES;

EID: 0036751304     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1480816     Document Type: Article

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