Thermal analysis of the synchronizer friction surface and its application to the synchronizer durability improvement

✍ Scribed by Tadaoki Kinugasa; Hiroshi Ishii; Hirozo Shozaki; Kazuo Takami

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0389-4304
• DOI: 10.1016/s0389-4304(98)00075-7

✦ Synopsis

The synchronizer performance depends heavily on the friction characteristics of the synchronizer, and in particular the synchronizer durability is a!ected by the friction-surface temperature.

In the present study, a practical thermal analysis method for the synchronizer was developed on the basis of repeated temperaturemeasurement on the friction surface under various test conditions. This paper describes a new analytical method for the appropriate design of the synchronizer speci"cation.