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1. Vladimir Abramov says:

   Why USA Government does not limit power of light vehicle power source according to its weight with full load? Unfortunately, USA National Laboratories of USA Department of Energy do not research and development any transmission of machines that also opens opportunity to get more number of jobs. They get focus only to research and to development the power source at its Department.
   In result, USA has less fuel economy of land vehicles than Europe above 2 times.
   I have offered dramatically to reduce the power of existing engine and/or motor of each machine that necessary to change gears. There are for example about 350,000,000 vehicles, heavy-duty equipment, machine tools, conveyers and crafts in USA.
   I research and developing the revolutionary technology for to create new designs that much profitably for both the Manufacture and Customers. I sure there is non-risky technology because well-known parts as shafts and gears.
   There is letter below:

   Stop Ignoring the Physics Laws that Influence Motion

   Archimedes (circa 287-212) said: “Give me a point of support and I will turn around the Earth by a lever” more than two thousand years ago.
   However the existing tradition is to focus only on the power of a power source to move vehicles because the use of levers, i.e., gears in a transmission, for moving vehicles is too unconventional. It is much easier to increase the power of an engine or motor by an additional number of cylinders or increased diameter and length of wire than to redesign a transmission to be the source of converting momentum into motion.
   May be engine with increased diameter or number of cylinders more save energy ? This is not true. The potato cannon uses the basic principle behind any reciprocating internal combustion engine: If you put a tiny amount of high-energy fuel (like gasoline) in a small, enclosed space and ignite it, an incredible amount of energy is released in the form of expanding gas. In this case, the energy is translated into potato motion that stops after getting distant dependent to amount of energy. You can also use it for more interesting purposes. For example, if you can create a cycle that allows you to set off explosions like this hundreds of times per minute, and if you can harness that energy in a useful way, what you have is the core of a car engine! Therefore, increasing physical gas valume is increasing gas consumption.
   There is Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org also proves:
   “Fuel efficiency is normally expressed in terms of power per unit of engine displacement, also known as specific output. It should be noted that despite common usage, “fuel efficiency” is not a synonym for “fuel economy” or “gas mileage”. Modern fuel injected engines are much more efficient at producing power than their carbureted predecessors. For example, power output from Chrysler’s 3.9 L LA V6 engine jumped from 125 hp (93 kW) to 180 hp (134 kW) in 1992 due to the addition of fuel injection and a freer-flowing intake manifold. However, improvements in fuel efficiency achieved over the last 20 years have not been translated into improvements in fuel economy — much of the savings have been offset by the use of heavier and less-aerodynamic body styles (especially SUVs and pickup trucks) and the use of more-powerful engines”.
   Maybe Archimedes is not relevant? This can be easily examined. A shift gearbox of nine shafts has a capability to increase the power of power source or the revolution of engine shaft up to 5×5x5×5x5×5x5×5=390,625 times if the average gear ratio equals five between two adjacent shafts supporting the pairs of gears. This gearbox may reduce power of locomotive engine above one hundred times up to 30 hp.
   However, existing methods of transmission design do not have the freedom to create a transportation system, heavy-duty equipment, and industrial machinery having a shift gearbox with long levers and very small power source.
   Various machinery as varied as, for example, locomotives, ships, submarines, helicopters, propeller airplanes, trucks, cars, CNC machine tools and conveyer systems have propulsions that generally comprise huge power sources directly connected to working organs because energy has been relatively inexpensive until recently- and the environmental costs were largely ignored. For example, a typical locomotive consumes one gallon of hydrocarbon fuel for less than one mile of distant. A large cruise ship achieves only about thirty inches of distance per gallon.
   Maybe the planetary or hydraulic transmissions that are used by heavy-duty equipment propulsions save energy and reduce emission of engine? No, they are not. Please you open books. The heavy-duty equipment propulsions use well-known energy inefficient planetary or hydraulic transmissions comprising few parts that require excessive energy in work process to overcome additional frictions and movements according to Physics Laws.
   This is because locomotives and cruise ships from use basic transmission designs found in land-based vehicle propulsion systems used by individuals – cars and trucks.
   An automatic transmission torque converter and continuous variable transmission are more popular in America than a manual gearbox that requires too much attention to making complex hand movements when vehicle has speed. The torque converter disk or two pullers and belt mechanism are very simple to manufacture. But how do you get high torque in a timely manner or lower revolution of a shaft? There is only one way to cut higher angular moment inertia of converter disk or two pullers and belt masses according to the First Newton‘s Physics Law of inertia. It is with friction brakes installed inside of transmission case. However, they require too much time for maintenance and are too inefficient. Is this technical problem required highest education solved very easy? Yes, it is.
   The engine power of each lightweight vehicle with an existing transmission is increased so that the function of each transmission to help timely the power source to save energy by means of higher torque is eliminated. Present vehicles indirectly ignoring Physics Law of lever. Instead, the power sources with excessive power indirectly are connected to working organs by transmissions that wait for directions from gas engine or magnetic field motor. These transmissions work as clutches.
   However, weight of full loaded heavy-duty truck (max. 80,000 lb) prevents attainment of the potential of the shift gearbox function and the average power of its engine (400 hp) is normal according to use of existing shift gearbox and acceleration system of engine. The eliminating of engine acceleration system is open opportunity to reduce its power up to highest revolution to idle speed ratio of engine shaft and to increase speed of full loaded heavy-duty truck on uphill.
   Do you want to see how your car uses power inefficiently? It is very easy to see in two ways. The first way is that your fully-loaded car initially moves only at lowest gear (first speed) from stop in the same manner as a fully-loaded heavy-duty truck is in initially moved. But as you move faster, your car transmission shifts into a higher gear (“drive”) because you have increased power of engine and transmission works as clutch. The second way is that you can compare the full weight and average power engine power of your car, typically 3,000 lbs and 250 hp, to weight of full loaded heavy-duty truck (80,000 lb) and the average engine power of 400 hp.
   Some may think that the greatly increased engine power for a car is necessary to achieve fast maneuverability of the light weight vehicle on road? This is not true. Too much time is required for the gas to the engine or magnetic field for the motor to increase the torque up to a sufficient magnitude. In comparison, hard gear pairs are capable of increasing speed more quickly by use of overdrive speeds.
   Somebody may think that the greatly increased engine power for a helicopter and propeller airplane is necessary to achieve the light weight? This is not true. The shift gearbox of about 300 lb has a capability to reduce power of engine up to 25 times. There is condition dramatically to reduce fuel consumption of engine. Therefore, weight of air craft is much more reduced by cutting weight of fuel volume than weight of shift gearbox with additional two-three small engines that improve safety of helicopter and propeller airplane.
   In result, much increased powers of power sources (the first steel vehicle of Carl Benes has engine with power 0.9hp at January 29, 1886, patent #37435, Germany) than weight of vehicle or force of resistant in work process are directly and indirectly increasing oil or/and electricity consumption that create excessive emissions providing climate changing.
   What will do to protect life on Earth from excessive emissions of fast increasing number of machines in each year? One way is below.
   The 260 “mutually definite units of energy for forced energy economy” (MDUFEE) shift gearbox families (useful in over 1,000 designs) are described in a patent pending process. Part of full application has been disclosed in WO2008027346 on the European Patent Office website http://ep.espacenet.com or esp@cenet.com. Additional disclosures have not yet been published. The basic apparatus is protected by U.S. Patent No. 7,191,676 that is available on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website http://www.uspto.gov. Each design disclosed has up to 40% of number of gear to achieve a desired range of torques than in gearbox designs using conventional approaches. Also, a lower number of shafts are needed in gear boxes comprising four and more shafts. This revolutionary technology uses well-known parts produced by existing manufactures. This design opens the opportunity to use plastic or non-metal material in transmissions.
   Use of a sufficient number of overdrive speeds of FEE units limits or eliminates the need for a conventional acceleration system. Put another way, the engine shaft has a low revolution up to idle speed in the processes of vehicle acceleration and movement. This allows for a reduction in power requirements and engine wear and permits use of a wider variety of materials for the engine. Simplification of shifting mechanism design opens opportunity to use together three regimes of movement. There is the manual regime switch to the semi-automatic or full automatic regime.
   The unusual MDUFEE gearbox design produces revolutions of engine shaft in speed ranges similar to those of an electric motor. For example MDUFEE gearbox produces 144 forward and 72 reverse torques and overdrive speeds by 27 gears – two gears less than the number of gears for the existing heavy-duty truck gearbox to achieve only 18 forward and 2 reverse speeds. Seven unusual compounds MDUFEE gearbox families are able to drive part time front wheels and rear wheels and then drive two-three pairs of wheels (4×4 – 6×6) both in forward or backward directions. One state-of-art design has two engines with two small power sources used only for acceleration of a vehicle; thus further cutting fuel consumption and emission.
   My innovative invention is a win –win for both the manufacture and the consumer, as well as for the environment. The revolutionary method of designs creates MDUFEE shift gearboxes with significantly reduced manufacturing costs by reducing the numbers of parts for each machine that need to change gears and the machine’s energy consumption. It also permits increased fuel efficiencies of over 50%. Furthermore, reduced fuel consumption translates into reduced emissions. By shifting to gear box designs that save energy according to Physics law of lever, gearboxes can be used to reduce or eliminate the need for acceleration and breaking systems. In addition, each vehicle – whether it is based on land, water and air – has improved maneuverability.
   Please stop ignoring Physics Laws that prevent disasters in life of our planet among 300 billions stars. May be the increased number of disasters on Earth is the serious signs of star creator?
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   December 13th, 2008 at 4:35 pm