DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF LOCKING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS IN AUTOMOBILE

Mechanical Engineering

Automobiles are now becoming the most essential part of our day-to-day life. With increased parking difficulties and heavy traffic problems, equipping the forward and reverse system with more facilities is their major objective. In addition to that gliding of vehicles in gradients and mountain roads occurs often due to driver’s carelessness. In this project, we made a simple and economical solution to the above mentioned problem. We used freewheel mechanism as our major capital and fabricated an equipment which can be attached to any automobile that it prevents unwanted reverse motion when it is at rest or in motion. The attachment is to be welded with the wheel rim and the pawl with a retraction spring or a lever mechanism is fabricated with the frame. Due to cost factors a small prototype of this project was done. Here we did a model with two metal wheels connected with a shaft. A rectangular frame is welded with the shaft and a lever attachment is provided in it to engage and disengage the pawl. The freewheel is welded with one of the wheels.

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