CurAegis Technologies Inc (fka CRGS)

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Tough to say cost differential between Iso-torque and Torsen. Best bet to find out from Torvec themselves exactly what is unique about Iso-torque. Looking at the web site, looks like Iso is two gearsets of the balancing gears, yet when you click on 'more pictures', the diagrams and photos look a heck of a lot more like the original Torsen: three sets of balancing gears, three openings in the housing. If the two window design is the primary idea behind Iso-torque, the two fewer element gears is an obvious cost reduction. You still need the side gears, machined casting, those plates they are showing (not sure functionality or just there for picture sake), thrust washers, etc. It is a one piece housing design. So maybe they are proposing alternate materials to achieve the lighter weight and lower cost. Challenge is getting lighter in a power transmitting device such as this and maintaining strength characteristics usually means exotic metals, driving the costing in the wrong direction.