Steel
Drive & Control Equipments
Universal Shafts
Description - 1. The universal shaft enables motion transmission between driving and driven shafts, with wide working angles. 2. The major characteristic of a universal shaft is having a transmission ratio instantly varying, when misalignment is different from zero. 3. The transmission ratio average value however keeps uniform; to annul such variability, the connection is made by two universal joints,equalizing the angular velocity. 4. Motion transmission is realized by a component connecting input and output shaft ends. This component is called journal cross. 5. Generally speaking, the universal shaft operation can be distinguished into 5 single peculiarities: a. Torque and speed b. Possibility of changing the distance between input and output. c. Possibility of changing the angle between input and output. d. Stress for vibration e. Torsional strength