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hypoid gear [′hī‚pȯid ¦gir] (mechanical engineering) Gear wheels connecting nonparallel, nonintersecting shafts, usually at right angles. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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There is a short horizontal shaft and hypoid gear set that send power to the prop shaft, then to the rear drive unit. An SAE paper (#820696; Neil Lottridge and Robert Grindahl) summarized the results of the testing done by GMC's Pontiac Div from 1971-1977 on nodular iron hypoid gears for automobile rear axles. 4,981,402 granted on multi-axis bevel and hypoid gear-generating machines, which are gear-making machines that produce some of the most complex gears in use today. |
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