With Compensation For Backlash In Drive Means Patents (Class 409/5)
  • Publication number: 20100172707
    Abstract: This aims to provide a vibration-suppressing mechanism for a gear-shaping machine, which is enabled to suppress mechanical vibrations at the time of shaping a helical gear by selecting an optimum balance weight. The vibration-suppressing machine is provided for the gear-shaping machine which performs the gear shaping on a work (W) with a cutter (T) mounted on a main spindle (26) of crank reciprocations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd
    Inventors: Takahide Tokawa, Kazutaka Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7402006
    Abstract: This method includes: a supporting process of supporting a worm wheel in a first supporting section of a supporting body; an engaging process of engaging a jig gear which corresponds to a worm with the worm wheel; a measuring process of measuring a distance between the centers of the worm wheel and the jig gear; a gear processing process of processing the worm based on the measured distance between the centers; and a supporting process of supporting the worm in a second supporting section of the supporting body after releasing the engagement between the worm wheel and the jig gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 6394716
    Abstract: A process and a machine for fine machining of the tooth flanks of geared workpieces with a driven tool in the form of a gear wheel or worm gear which is in meshing contact with a workpiece, the axes of tool and workpiece intersecting. During machining of the workpiece the tool is driven in a direction of rotation which remains the same and adjustable torque values are applied to the workpiece in one direction and subsequently in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: The Gleason Works
    Inventors: Manfred Huber, Johannes Becker
  • Patent number: 4664569
    Abstract: In order to increase the working range of existing designs of gear cutting machines upon which gear teeth based upon an extended epicycloid are cut according to the continuous gear-cutting process, the workpiece and cutter spindles of a gear cutting machine are driven in identical directions of rotation by a reversing drive train. A reversible auxiliary drive is connected to an end of a primary drive train remote from a main drive for maintaining the primary drive train interconnecting the workpiece and cutter spindles under constant load, i.e. for suppressing backlash in the primary drive train. This permits the practical fabrication of gears (i.e. the practical cutting of gear teeth) based upon a hypocycloid instead of an epicycloid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Buhrle AG
    Inventor: Erich Kotthaus
  • Patent number: 4633619
    Abstract: Apparatus for the manufacture or machining of gears with a toothed tool having abrasive working surfaces, in which workpiece and tool, during rotation, are supported by the tooth system of a guide-gear pair. The apparatus works with a single-flank contact between workpiece and tool, whereby for changing the tooth flanks which contact one another, one member of the drive chain can be rotated relative to the other members a preselectable or adjustable amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen-und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Manfred Erhardt, Herbert Loos, Gerhard Reichert
  • Patent number: 4203258
    Abstract: In a gear finishing or other machine having a base, a table support mounting a reciprocal table having a head stock and a tail stock for supporting a workpiece gear or spline to be finished, a pedestal on the base mounting a motor-operated transmission and a depending machine head mounting a power-driven abrasive honing, or other type finishing gear rotatable upon a horizontal or vertical axis, the table support or head being relatively adjustable with respect to the other to bring the workpiece teeth into operative position with respect to the teeth of the finishing gear. The improvement which comprises a first gear train connecting said transmission to said finishing gear for rotation thereof at a predetermined speed. A drive spindle is journalled through said head stock adapted for axial drive engagement with the workpiece gear to be finished. A second gear train interconnects said transmission with said drive spindle for rotation at a predetermined speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Inventor: Gerhard R. Held
  • Patent number: 4198184
    Abstract: A gear cutting machine is provided with an endless chain for carrying a plurality of tools into contact with one or more workpieces to thereby form gear tooth configurations on the workpieces. The endless chain is provided with tightening means for stiffening articulated links of the chain as it passs through a zone in which its tools make contact with a workpiece, thereby providing a rigid series of links in the work zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1980
    Assignee: The Gleason Works
    Inventor: Thomas A. Deprez