Crowned tooth couplings replace straight teeth with crowned teeth, distributing meshing contact more evenly along the tooth width and thereby improving load capacity and fatigue life. Domestic products follow GB/T crowned tooth coupling standards, differing from foreign products in structure and parameter systems. Overall, Japan, the US and Europe each have their strengths in crowned tooth and gear couplings: Japan excels in tooth crowning and consistency, the US in high-torque grading and durability, and Europe in integrated design and sealing. The domestic GICL series, however, holds clear advantages in cost-performance, lead time and spare-part convenience, meeting most medium-to-heavy duty conditions. In materials and heat treatment, domestic products mainly use 42CrMo and 45 steel, carburized and quenched to a tooth-surface hardness of HRC58-62. High-end foreign products often use alloy carburizing steel with vacuum heat treatment, giving better hardness uniformity and delaying pitting and wear. In summary, domestic crowned tooth couplings already have the technical basis to replace imports; users can select reasonably based on duty, budget and lead time. We will keep sharing selection and maintenance essentials for the GICL series.