Rack and pinion steering is commonly used in modern vehicles to facilitate steering control. It involves a gear assembly consisting of a rack (a straight bar with teeth) and a pinion gear (a small ...

None of today’s trucks are exactly primitive, but there’s still rich ground for improvements in some of the fundamental technologies they depend on. Like the chassis, where some very useful suspension ...

ABSTRACT MCE-5 DEVELOPMENT has been developing its variable compression ratio engine (VCRi) for over a decade aiming at reducing fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. In order to transmit power ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Aimed at improving several aspects of driving performance, Freightliner Trucks has made available rack and pinion steering for its line of heavy-duty trucks, a component that until ...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MISUMI USA, Inc., a subsidiary of MISUMI Corporation, part of MISUMI Group, Inc. (TOKYO: 9962), has announced the addition of a new Z Axis Simplified Adjustment Unit ...

Different gears like spur, bevel, worm and wormwheel, rack and pinion, meshed gears, and threaded bars serve various purposes. When selecting a gear system, consider speed, direction, force, space, ...

Christian Joachim, has lead a research team that has made a molecular rack-and-pinion device for which an STM tip drives a single pinion molecule at low temperature. The pinion is a 1.8-nm-diameter ...