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What (who) is hypoid - definition
hypoid
['h??p??d]
(also hypoid gear)
¦ noun a bevel wheel with teeth engaging with a spiral pinion mounted at right angles to the wheel's axis, used to connect non-intersecting shafts in vehicle transmissions.
Origin
1920s: perh. a contr. of hyperboloid.
Spiral bevel gear
A spiral bevel gear is a bevel gear with helical teeth. The main application of this is in a vehicle differential, where the direction of drive from the drive shaft must be turned 90 degrees to drive the wheels.
Hypoid gearboxes
Hypoid gearboxes are gearboxes having axes that are non-intersecting and not parallel. The hypoid gearboxes are a subcategory of spiral bevel gearbox with the axes of gears at an offset from one another.
