Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a new technology?

Yes, it is brand new and is based on a unique idea that provides a fundamentally different approach to gears and transmissions design.  

Is the technology patent protected?

Yes, patent applications are pending in more than 50 countries.  

What is new and unique in this technology?

It provides a general framework to design gears and transmissions using rollers where the rollers undergo pure rolling motion.  

Is there anything similar in the market?

While there have been numerous attempts in the past many years to try to use rollers in gears and transmissions to reduce frictional losses no one has ever succeeded in achieving pure rolling motion and the corresponding reduction of frictional losses by a factor of 2-300. The only exception is ball-screw drives but they only work in the special case of collinear shafts while our technology is completely general and works for any shaft angles and set-ups.  

What is the significance of this technology?

It provides an alternative to all existing toothed-wheel and worm gear and transmission designs and offers major advantages and improvements in performance. Toothed wheels and worm gears have been with us for literally hundreds of years but now we have something better to offer.  

What are the advantages compared to conventional toothed-wheel and worm gears and transmissions?

First of all, since the technology is based on such a fundamentally new approach there are a lot of differences that may look insignificant at first sight yet could be of major importance in some applications. For example, since our technology does not require or require very little lubrication and cooling it looks very useful in the cases of low temperature and super-clean or vacuum-technological applications. Many of the differences are, however, obviously very advantageous. Just to mention a few, many of them are described in these web pages in detail, these include

• practically no sliding friction and 100% energy efficiency
• no back-lash
• very high engagement factor and
• flexible design  

Some of the consequences of these advantages are

• low operating costs
• very little heating and very little need for lubrication and cooling
• low noise and vibrations (very useful for high-precision machine tools)
• low abrasion
• long lifetime
• very precise, smooth and steady movements
• great reliability
• small and compact size

• shaft geometries, arrangements and angles such as intersecting and evading shaft axes of any angles and also including parallel shafts
  
• internal and external coupling arrangements
• planetary drive arrangements
• gear rack arrangements
• roller types such as balls and cylinders etc.  

What are the applications of this technology?

Our technology is applicable everywhere where gears and transmissions are needed. This is a huge market of about $100 billion and includes all vehicles: cars, trucks, bikes, trains, trams, ships, airplanes, helicopters etc, all material handling equipment such as cranes, lifts, conveyors, escalators and ropeways etc, machine tools, mills, mixers, windfarms, turbines, generators, and all kinds of other industrial machinery.  

What is the Company's business model?

We develop a new family of gearing and power transmission technologies and industrial applications based on our fundamentally new, patent-protected roller gearing mechanism and several years of accumulated know-how. We market these technologies through license and partnership agreements and small-scale production. We also offer design and advisory services, prototype manufacture and testing, and provide tailor-made solutions to our customers.  

Who are the Company's potential customers?

Our customers can come from any of those industries where gears and transmissions are used and can be gear manufacturers, OEMs or end product users.  

How can the Company be contacted?

We can be contacted in both the UK and in Hungary.