What is the outlook for planetary gearboxes?
The product categories involved in the reducer industry include gear reducers, cycloidal pinwheel reducers, harmonic reducers, worm gear reducers, and so on. Today, let's take a look at the development trends of micro planetary gear reducers.
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2020-05-23 14:18
According to the 2019-2025 analysis and development prospect research report on the current situation of the reducer industry released by the China Industrial Research Network, domestic manufacturers in the reducer industry coexist in various forms, such as foreign-funded enterprises, Sino-foreign joint ventures, state-owned enterprises, joint-stock enterprises, and individual enterprises, with scales ranging from hundreds of millions in annual output value to several million. Experts predict that during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, due to the overall economic development of the country, the growth rate of the economic total of the planetary reducer industry will still reach double digits.
The product categories involved in the reducer industry include gear reducers, cycloidal pinwheel reducers, harmonic reducers, worm gear reducers, and so on. Today, let's take a look at the development trend of micro planetary reducer transmission.

Planetary reducers achieve mechatronics:
In micro machines, not only is a micro transmission device capable of transmitting power—micro planetary reducers needed, but also micro planetary reducers with self-contained power drive devices are required. In other words, electric micro machines need to be composed of micro motors and micro planetary reducers into a compact gear transmission device, enabling them to have both driving and speed reduction functions. Therefore, for mechatronic gear transmission devices with the above functions, the characteristic is: the input shaft and output shaft of this micro planetary reducer are coaxial, and the motor shaft should be compactly connected with its load. Structurally, the motor shaft can be connected to the input of the planetary reducer, that is, the motor shaft and the gear shaft of the sun wheel a are on the same main axis and connected together. The output shaft of the planetary gear reducer (integrated with the internal gear e) serves as the output shaft of this assembly, thus forming an internal gear transmission device composed of the motor and the planetary gear reducer. It can also be said that the motor and the planetary reducer combine to become a low-speed motor, whose output shaft can be directly connected to the working machine. The current issue is: to make this micro planetary reducer with a motor reach a practical level, a practical micro motor with a size similar to that of the micro planetary reducer is needed.
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