Curvilinear Gear

I have a patent pending on a new gear concept, the curvilinear gear. I am a mechanical engineer that is now retired, at least financially. I still am an enthusiastic participant in developing mechanical engineering concepts and products. Two years ago, I challenged myself to either improve or replace a basic mechanical engineeringg concept.

I chose the gear. I chose this design concept because it is over 5000 years old. I asked myself, how could things remain so static, given the advances made in material and manufacturing technologies, to the basic gear design concept. One thing I noted was that gears are basically a 2-D concept. This is what caused me to look into this technology more. I asked, "What if we went 3-D with this technology". Which means, "What if we could could change the radius of a gear head we moved across the width of the gear head"?. As I thought about this concept, it became clear that there might be some major advantages to doing this. The most important advantage being that one gear set could potentially replace multiple gear sets. When I investigated this further, I learned that some people had already asked the same quaestion, the most important being Leonardo DiVince. Over 500 yars ago, Leonardo asked this question and answered it by coming up with the idea of a CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission). He did run into a problem, he could not figure out how to directly drive a CVT. The problem he ran into is that mechanical engineering had not progressed far enough for him to take advantage of. Leonardo was truely a revolutionary thinker who goes way beyond some of us who try to walk in his foot steps. But his idea survives even today as many companies try to figure out how to improve the application of CVTs to current needs. Lubrication and electromechanical concepts seem to be the direction mos are taking. I have decied t take a different approach.My approach is a "direct drive" CVT.

In 1984, AGMA pubished a stratic plan for the gear industry. The first thing they did was to acknowledge they are not a gear industry, but rather, a power train industry. This is a very important change in thinking. Why is it important? It is important because my concept shows how the current gear industry can compete and actually beat its current challengers.

What I have developed is a direct drive power train that is driven using basic gear concepts.

If anyone has an interest in discussing this concept, I woud be glad to engage in any reasonable discussion...