Abstract: A tester for backlash-free rolling of gears with a mating gear generally comprises a base, a stationary spindle on which a test gear can be mounted and which can be driven by a motor; an oscillating slide on which a rotary mounting device is located with an axis of rotation for loosely rotating the mating gear and which slide being guided for easy movement in the direction of the center distance of the two gears; first means for setting a specified test center distance between the two gears; second means providing a specifiable test force for a constant tight mesh of the two gears; and third means for measuring center distance variations during the rotation of two gears. To simplify and reduce design costs of such testers, the stationary part of a linear motor is disposed on the base and the moveable part thereof is disposed to the oscillating slide, and an associated separate CNC control is provided to allow the linear motor to be used for said three means.

Abstract: A tester for backlash-free rolling of gears with a mating gear (13) generally comprises a base (1), a stationary spindle (2) on which a test gear (3) can be mounted and which can be driven by a motor (5); an oscillating slide (7) on which a rotary mounting device is located with an axis of rotation (14) for loosely rotating the mating gear (13) and which slide being guided for easy movement in the direction of the center distance of the two gears; first means for setting a specified test center distance (20) between the two gears; second means providing a specifiable test force for a constant tight mesh of the two gears; and third means for measuring center distance variations during the rotation of two gears.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus checks crankshafts 6 and has a rotatable workpiece holder (4, 5), a first group of bifurcated measuring devices (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d) for measuring the main bearings of the crankshaft and a second group of bifurcated measuring devices (19a, 19b) for measuring the connecting-rod bearings. Each bifurcated measuring device of the second group has several measuring sensors and its own drives for moving the bifurcated measuring device in the plane perpendicular to the axis of the crankshaft. When the crankshaft 6 is rotated, each bifurcated measuring device of the second group is either controlled on desired paths in accordance with the stroke of the connecting-rod bearing or is following up the movement of the connecting-rod bearing according to the signals of the measuring sensors.

Abstract: The sensing head of a coordinate measuring machine includes sensing pin combinations or sensing pins which are changeably fastened with high precision in respect to their spatial position. The receiver contains an isostatic three-point bearing against which the connecting body of the sensing pin is drawn by a pneumatically operated clamping arrangement. In the preferred embodiment the clamping arrangement consists of a suction cup and arresting elements for maintaining attachment of the receiving device to the connecting body when there is no subpressure acting upon the suction cup.

Abstract: There is specified a measuring arrangement for rotationally symmetrical workpieces with an adjustable clamping device which carriers the workpiece, and with a movable measuring slide which carries at least one measuring head which measures the workpiece with a sensing pin in a radial direction or an axial direction or both, as the disadvantage is avoided that with a change of the measuring assignment another sensing pin adapted to the new measuring assignment must be reoutfitted in a complicated manner. To accomplish this task the measuring head is equipped with a sensing pin carrier that carries several sensing pins and is turnable. Thus, the sensing pins can be turned rapidly into the measuring position. There they are held fast by a stopping device.

Abstract: A measuring and sensing head (6, 30, 50) is moved under computer control in engagement with right and left flanks of gears. These may be internal or external gears. The head is moved in a tangential direction with respect to the base circle of the gear and, in accordance with the invention, additionally in a radial direction with respect to the axis (3) of the gear (2), in such a manner that, when setting right and left flanks, respectively, of a gear tooth, the paths of the measuring and sensing head form straight lines which intersect at intersection points (43, 53) outside of the base circle (32, 52) of the gear. The movement of the sensing head is controlled by a computer (C) in accordance with an involute mathematical function following the involute curve of gear teeth. Other curves, similar to an involute curve, may be controlled by the computer.

Abstract: With the gear wheel (23) stopped, a testing head (13) is sequentially introduced into tooth gaps to measure adjacent teeth (FIG. 1a), sequentially, by sensing and recording the position of engagement of the measuring head with tooth flanks at a predetermined measuring circle, for example the pitch circle; the measuring head can move, with respect to the gear wheel, in X and Y vectorial directions, and if it is desired to also measure profile and/or inclination of inclined or spiraled gears, in the Z vectorial direction. The measuring head is moved from tooth gap to tooth gap until the end of a scanning range is reached. At that point, a control apparatus (24) rotates the gear wheel to place the last measured flank at least approximately at an initial measuring or reference position, so that the testing head can remeasure the last measured flank, thus determining the position of the gear wheel, and proceed with the next measuring cycle from tooth gap to tooth gap, while measuring the flanks.

Abstract: A method for orienting a feeler of an apparatus for testing gear flank profiles and flank lines of gear wheels is disclosed, in which the feeler is successively inserted, in two adjacent positions, into an accurately made gap element located on the gear wheel and from the thus ascertained values the location of the point of intersection of the wheel axis with the measuring plane is ascertained, optionally by means of a computer. The gap element, embodied as an orientation gap mounted on the gear wheel, that is approached by the feeler in the first position is rotated with the gear wheel into a second position, and there the feeler, embodied solely by the measuring feeler, is inserted into the same orientation gap. Therefore measurements are made by use of the same orientation gap and the same feeler at two different locations.

Abstract: An automatic test apparatus for testing circumferential spacing in gears, as well as a further development for testing deviations in tooth thickness, tooth gaps, and gear concentricity, are disclosed, in which with a single revolution of the gear the testing of circumferential spacing is accomplished for both the right and left flanks of the wheel. The values for the deviations in gear concentricity, tooth thickness and tooth gaps are preferably detected at the same time, thereby avoiding the possibility that the measuring feeler can undergo vibration-caused deviations with respect to the tooth flank to be approached for attaining a particular measuring position.

Abstract: In a gear probe for testing the shape and orientation of gear flanks, a control and computer unit is used to effect the necessary positioning between the gear flank to be tested and a measuring sensor. First the gear is positioned coarsely; during this step a transmission disc and a linear transmission track are out of engagement with one another. Thereafter, the measuring sensor is advanced into the tooth gap and a fine positioning for a zero balancing of a potentiometer of the measuring sensor is effected by automatically displacing the linear transmission track with respect to the carriage on which it is mounted or by automatically changing the relative angular position between the gear to be tested and the transmission track. All displacements of apparatus components for the coarse and fine positioning as well as for the performance of the measuring process proper are automatically effected by the program-controlled control and computer unit.