Advances in Automobile Engineering
Open Access

Power loss elimination during clutch engagement in an automobile

2^nd International Conference and Exhibition on Automobile Engineering

December 01-02, 2016 Valencia, Spain

Lakshmi Narayanan J

Anna University, BIT-Campus, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Adv Automob Eng

Abstract :

A clutch is a machine member used to connect the driving shaft to a driven shaft, so that the driven shaft may be started or stopped at will, without stopping the driving shaft. During an automobile drive, one can observe that during every gear shift, there will be a speed fall after engaging the clutch. After disengagement, due to the inertia of the vehicle, the clutch shaft momentarily rotates at a higher speed compared to the flywheel. Then after engagement, the speed fall is mainly due to the engaging of low speed flywheel and relatively high speed driven member. By temporarily preventing the engagement of the flywheel and clutch till flywheel crosses the speed of clutch shaft, the speed drop during engagement can be eliminated. Proposed design deals with this concept, by adding a free wheel unit to the clutch shaft so as to eliminate the speed drop.

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