Gearboxes and gearheads, also called gear reducers or speed reducers ... consist of gears arranged in a housing with a method for attaching to an input drive (a motor or drive shaft) and an output ...

A 5:1 ratio means that a motor input of 1750 RPM is converted to 350 RPM ... Planetary configuration gets its name from its resemblance to a solar system. Planetary reducers can be designed with gear ...

[Michael] explains that while there are elements of a cycloidal drive, itself a wonderfully clever gear reduction mechanism, the radial vector reducer actually has more bearing surfaces ...