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• Non-synchronous transmission
  ...ienced in changing gears. These types of transmissions are known to heavy equipment operators as non-synchronous transmissions. The operators must understand ...s shear. For the reasons of engineering a dependable, longer-life piece of equipment, these machines often use non-synchronous transmissions.
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• Machine
  ...nstruction equipment]] industries, and [[Engineering vehicle|earthmoving]] equipment industries.
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• Jake brake
  ...on release engine brakes in general, especially on large vehicles or heavy equipment. "Jake Brake" is a registered trademark of Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.
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• Automobile self starter
  ...gear to engage the flywheel ring gear, and simultaneously closed a pair of heavy-duty contacts supplying current to the starter motor winding. ...anical simplicity and reliability. They eliminate the need for oversized, heavy storage batteries in [[prime mover]] electrical systems.
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• Locking differential
  ...ing on soft, muddy, or uneven surfaces. Lockers are common in agricultural equipment and military trucks. ...e, muddy, or rocky terrain. Locking differentials are considered essential equipment for serious off-road driving.
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• Pneumatics
  * The working fluid is very light in weight so supply hoses are not heavy. * Because air is compressable, the equipment is less likely to be damaged by shock. The air in pneumatics absorbs exces
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• IVECO
  ...ngines Iveco manufactures go to Iveco vehicles, 60% are sold as [[Original equipment manufacturer|OEM]] units for automotive, industrial, agricultural, marine, * Iveco - light and heavy commercial vehicles
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• Tractor
  .... Early tractors used belts wrapped around [[pulley]]s to power stationary equipment. Modern tractors use a [[power take-off]] shaft (PTO) to provide rotary pow ...int hitch can be raised or lowered hydraulically with a control lever. The equipment attached to the three-point hitch is usually completely supported by the tr
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• Iveco
  ...ngines Iveco manufactures go to Iveco vehicles, 60% are sold as [[Original equipment manufacturer|OEM]] units for use in automotive, industrial, agricultural, m * Iveco - light, medium, and heavy commercial vehicles
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• Hydraulic fluid
  ...]], water, and water-based mixtures. The fluids are found in machinery and equipment ranging from [[brake]]s, [[power steering]] systems, and [[transmission (me ...aircraft system. Samples from aircraft hydraulic systems are taken during heavy [[aircraft maintenance checks]] to check contamination.
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• Air filter
  [[Energy Star]] advises air filters be checked every month, especially during heavy use months (winter and summer). If the filter looks dirty after a month, i ...les' outside-air intakes. Being a relatively recent addition to automobile equipment, this filter is often overlooked and clogged or dirty cabin air filters can
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• Transmission
  ...equipment. In addition to ordinary transmission equipped with gears, such equipment makes extensive use of the [[#Hydrostatic transmission|hydrostatic drive]] ...anure spreader]]s, [[flail mower]]s, and [[forage wagon]]s). More complex equipment, such as [[silage]] choppers and [[snowblower]]s, has drives with outputs i
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• Microcar
  ...ually designed and produced for economic purposes when materials and heavy equipment are scarce or fuel is scarce and expensive. Many microcar designs flourishe
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• Electric vehicle conversion
  ...dependent converter that purchases new vehicles without a motor or related equipment (these vehicles are called "[[Glider (disambiguation)|glider]]s" to offer a *Accessory equipment to power auxiliary equipment such as power brakes and heating system
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• Carbon fibre
  ...rbon fiber is 3 times as strong as 1K carbon fiber, but is also 3 times as heavy. This thread can then be used to [[weave]] a carbon fiber filament [[Texti ...f materials is used in aircraft parts, high-performance vehicles, sporting equipment, wind generator blades and gears and other demanding mechanical application
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• Catalytic converter
  ...verters are now commonly used on [[generator]] sets, [[forklift]]s, mining equipment, [[truck]]s, [[bus]]es, [[train]]s, and other machines that have engines to ...forklift]]s, aerial boom lifts, ice resurfacing machines, and construction equipment. The converters used in these are three-way types designed to reduce combin
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• De Tomaso Biguà
  Although the new Mangusta was not very long, it was extremely wide and heavy. Its 2670mm wheelbase was also among the longest for a 2-seater. That enabl ...ts was supplied by the Ford division Visteon with all the switch gears and equipment pre-installed. Door handles and other controls also came from Ford’s part
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• Linkage (mechanical)
  ...s oriented correctly as they sweep. Another visible application is [[heavy equipment]] which makes extensive use of four and six bar linkages.
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• Anti-lock braking system
  ...of this is twofold: to allow the driver to maintain steering control under heavy braking and, in most situations, to shorten braking distances (by allowing The ABS equipment may also be used to implement traction control on acceleration of the vehic
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• Brake fade
  ...ade, or fluid fade. Brake fade can be significantly reduced by appropriate equipment and materials design and selection. ...craft and passenger car brakes because there is no gas to vent. Meanwhile heavy trucks still use drum brakes because they offer more heat dissipation than
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• Four-wheel drive
  ...Subaru Impreza]]), whereas 4WD is used for vehicles designed primarily for heavy off-road use, normally with a low range transfer case (e.g. a [[Toyota Land ...n differentials generally work very well, though they can be expensive and heavy.
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• Steering
  ...rapping around the inside of the rim). This effect is even stronger with a heavy vehicle like a truck; recirculating ball steering prevents this degree of f [[image:frontloaderko.jpg|thumb|right|A front [[loader (equipment)|loader]] with articulated steering.]]
  12 KB (1,845 words) - 10:47, 8 October 2009
• Straight-6
  ...various industrial applications. These range from various types of [[heavy equipment]] to [[power generation]]. As with everyday passenger vehicles, the smooth
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• Hydropneumatic suspension
  ...a conventional power steering pump, hydropneumatic suspension adds no new equipment and in many cases results in a lower unsprung mass. ...ne to improve roll stiffness and thus roll stability limit, especially for heavy vehicles.
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• Diesel engine
  ...ufacturer [[Denso Corporation]], developed the Common Rail Fuel System for Heavy Duty Vehicles and finally turned into its first practical use on their ECD- ...essive [[vibration]]. The [[inline-6]] is the most prolific in medium- to heavy-duty engines, though the [[V8]] and [[straight-4]] are also common.
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• Electric car
  ...borhood electric vehicle]]s. Working electric vehicles include heavy work equipment, [[fork lift]]s, and numerous other service and support vehicles. Strictly
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• Continuously variable transmission
  ...[[lawn mower]]s, [[garden tractor]]s and some [[Hydraulic machinery|heavy equipment]].
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• Officine Meccaniche
  ...Società Anonima Officine Meccaniche" manufactured materials rail and other heavy engineering products. On October 1, 1917 OM took over the automaker Züst, ...cia]] and [[Milan]]. This creates three sectors: buses and trucks, railway equipment, agricultural tractors, forklifts and marine engines, motor pumps and refri
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• Ship
  ...passengers etc. which when added to the weight of the ship's structure and equipment, will bring the vessel down to her designed waterline. ...or many years had an inferior power-to-space ratio. About this period too, heavy [[fuel oil]] came into more general use and began to replace [[coal]] as th
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• Tire manufacturing
  ...r wire spools that are fed into the calender. Calenders utilize downstream equipment for shearing and splicing calendered components. ...el-cut. Belts are spliced end to end with no overlap. Splices that are too heavy or non-symmetrical will generate defects in force variation, balance, or bu
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• Ceramic
  ...n some semiconducting ceramic materials, mostly mixtures of [[heavy metals|heavy metal]] [[titanate]]s. The critical transition temperature can be adjusted ...on in the ceramic leads to cracks, which can lead to potentially dangerous equipment failure. Such engines are possible in laboratory settings, but mass-produc
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• Tre Spade
  ...irties the two brothers identified the brother Bertoldo, who meanwhile was heavy debate in difficulty, and in 1938 the company becomes FACEM, manufacture Ar ...ea so treacherous to be the great company with great strengths and capital equipment production, while it was destined to fail handicraft production, small fami
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• Lamborghini Diablo
  Even at over $200,000, the vehicle was fairly sparse in terms of equipment, featuring only basic radio functions (with optional CD playback) along wit ...manufacturing business. The car went without most of the Diablo's standard equipment, meaning that it was devoid of a radio, air-conditioning or sound deadening
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• Fiat Stilo
  ...|fuel economy]] was also seen as poor for its class, a result of the car's heavy weight and the transmission, which used very long gear ratios. Another poin As the Stilo model range has aged, the amount of equipment from the options list has now been lessened. The Stilo was originally offer
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• Supercar
  ...eur track use rather than racing alone, and because of this their standard equipment often does not include roll cages and other features required for [[race ca ...lb/hp). Certain vehicles have a high power-to-weight ratio despite their heavy weight, due to a very powerful engine. For example, the Bugatti Veyron carr
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• Four-cylinder
  ....jpg|thumb|150px|Early internal-combustion engines were used to power farm equipment.]] ...r and requires extensive insulation, whilst gaseous hydrogen requires very heavy tankage. While hydrogen is light and therefore has a higher specific energy
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• Turbo-Hydramatic
  ...THM350 had been in developement longer(disputable), it often failed under heavy torque or stress. ...g with the 1979 model year, vehicles which had the THM200/200C as standard equipment were optioned with the THM250-C, actually a THM350 without the intermediate
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• Suspension (vehicle)
  ...ride height or its location in the suspension stroke. Vehicles which carry heavy loads will often have heavier than desired springs to compensate for the ad ...ld also be uncomfortably bumpy. However, even though we say they both have heavy springs, the actual spring rates for a 2000lb race car and a 10,000lb truck
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• Gasoline
  *''Hydrocrackate'' (Heavy, Mid, and Light), produced from a hydrocracker, with medium to low octane a ...ntinue to be sold for off-road uses, including aircraft, racing cars, farm equipment, and marine engines.) The ban on leaded gasoline was presumed to lower leve
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• Laverda
  ...at one time a maker of high performance [[motorcycles]]. The agricultural equipment brand is famous for quality, simplicity, and efficiency; while the motorcyc ...s needed. Of course, this made the engines (subsequently the entire bike) heavy, heavier then say a Ducati 750 of the same vintage, but they were prodigiou
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• Ferrari F40
  ...e to being a full fledged race vehicle while still retaining the necessary equipment to be a street-legal product. It was the last car to be commissioned by [[E ...rged, 2.9 L (2936 cc) version of the GTO's twin [[Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries|IHI]] [[turbocharger|turbocharged]] [[V8]] developing 478 P
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• Car safety
  ...to introduce [[deadman's braking]] into automotive application, primarily heavy vehicles, there may also be a need to add [[penalty switch]]es to [[cruise *[http://www.drivesaferamerica.com/ safety equipment on new cars]
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• Passive safety
  ...to introduce [[deadman's braking]] into automotive application, primarily heavy vehicles, there may also be a need to add [[penalty switch]]es to [[cruise *[http://www.drivesaferamerica.com/ safety equipment on new cars]
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• Tire
  .... They have, however, become almost ubiquitous as original and replacement equipment on automobiles marketed in the United States, due to their convenience and ...can alter that. Wear can also take place unevenly if wheels lock up under heavy braking, causing flat spots.
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• Internal-combustion engine
  ....jpg|thumb|150px|Early internal-combustion engines were used to power farm equipment.]] ...r and requires extensive insulation, whilst gaseous hydrogen requires very heavy tankage. While hydrogen is light and therefore has a higher specific energy
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• Station wagon
  ...well-off shooter and hunter, giving space to carry [[shotgun]]s and other equipment. They have rarely been made by the factory and are generally aftermarket co ...the first power tailgate in station wagon history. This system was large, heavy, and complex, and was never adopted for any other car manufacturer. After t
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• Air brake (rail)
  ...till is, in many cases) located. In addition, passenger trains were not as heavy or lengthy as their [[freight]] counterparts, which eased the task of opera ..., the maximum pressure is limited to atmospheric pressure, so that all the equipment has to be much larger and heavier to compensate. This disadvantage is made
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• Automobile safety
  ...the study and practice of [[Automobile|vehicle]] design, construction, and equipment to minimise the occurrence and consequences of [[automobile accident]]s. ( ...nted the three-point lap and shoulder [[seat belt]], which became standard equipment on all Volvo cars in 1959. Over the next several decades, three-point safet
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• Junior
  ...is known of others, and others acquired a role as the Spa in the field of heavy vehicles. But all still left a mark, and throughout the [[Ceirano]] may be ...o, which bought block after fifteen days, for thirty thousand lire, plant, equipment, patents and even the staff of the [[Ceirano]] & C ., not to project the ve
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