Ratchet clutches control motion in several ways — one-way left, one-way right, freewheeling, and fully locked. Clutch body contains only a gear, control lever, and two spring-loaded pawls Moving ...

NSK has announced that its equity affiliate, NSK-Warner K.K., has developed a pawl-type one-way clutch for automobile powertrains. The new one-way clutch is applicable to the lubricant-free ...

Clutch quadrants are one of those things that sometimes go easily, and sometimes-well-they eventually go. Ours took seemingly forever, but only because the pawl didn't want to come off. When things go ...

After two years secret development in motorsport competition, Xtrac unveiled an important new driveline technology this week in the form of an Instantaneous Gearchange System (IGS). It does exactly ...

Gearing up: a ratchet comprising a gear wheel and a spring-loaded pawl. (Courtesy: iStock/PeteMuller) A thought experiment proposed more than 50 years ago by Richard Feynman has finally been realized ...

Ratchet clutches control motion in several ways: one-way left, one-way right, freewheeling, and fully locked Ratchet clutches control motion in several ways: one-way left, one-way right, freewheeling, ...