Gear Systems

De La Salle Lipa
College of Information Technology and Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
Gear Train
• A gear train is a set or system of gears arranged to
transfer rotational torque from one part of a
mechanical system to another.

• Gear trains consists of:

• Driving gears - attached to the input
shaft
• Driven gears - attached to the output shaft
Idler gears
interposed between the driving
and driven gear in order to
maintain the direction of the
output shaft the same as the
input shaft or to increase the
distance between the drive and
driven gears or the ‘idler’ gear is
used so that the rotation of the
two important gears is the same.
Types of gear trains
• Simple gear train
• Compound gear train
• Epicyclic gear train
• Reverted gear train
Effective Moment of Inertia and
Damping of a Gear Train
When the load is coupled to a drive
motor through a gear train, the
moment of inertia and damping
relative to the motor are important.
Since the shaft length between gears
is very short, the stiffness may be
considered infinite.
Effective Moment of Inertia and
Damping of a Gear Train

Mechanical Equivalent Circuit