cycloidal gear teeth
cycloidal gear teeth
[sī′klȯid·əl ′gir ‚tēth] (design engineering)
Gear teeth whose profile is formed by the trace of a point on a circle rolling without slippage on the outside or inside of the pitch circle of a gear; now used only for clockwork and timer gears.
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