Gear Tooth Cutting Patents (Class 29/893.35)
  • Patent number: 11879534
    Abstract: A gear includes a tubular portion and a diaphragm portion. The diaphragm portion extends in a direction including a radial component from one axial end portion of the tubular portion. The portion includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is on one axial side of the portion. The second portion is on another axial side relative to the first portion. The second portion includes teeth protruding radially outward. A maximum value of a thickness of the diaphragm portion is equal to or less than twice a distance from radially outer ends of the teeth to a radially inner surface of the second portion, and a minimum value of a thickness of the first portion is equal to or less than half the maximum value of the thickness of the diaphragm portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taihei Tsubone
  • Patent number: 11041544
    Abstract: An outer wheel element (16a) formed in an annular shape with a synthetic resin and having a worm wheel tooth part (19a) on an outer circumferential surface thereof embeds a radially outer end part of an inner wheel element (15a) formed in an annular shape with a metal. An outer circumferential surface of the inner wheel element (15a), which is radially superimposed with an engaging part between the worm tooth part (19a) and a the worm wheel tooth part serves as a cylindrical surface part (24). This realizes a structure capable of suppressing manufacturing error of the worm wheel tooth part engaging with the worm tooth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kiyota, Takeshi Yamamoto, Kaname Yasuda, Tomohiro Arai, Junichi Takano, Kazuki Hotta
  • Patent number: 10018459
    Abstract: A method for the location determination of the involutes of a pre-gear cut workpiece within a gear-cutting machine using a gear-cut tool comprising the method steps: generating first and second relative movements between the workpiece and the tool; detecting respective, resulting first and second contact between a first tooth flank of the tool and a first tooth flank of the workpiece; and detecting a respective first and second set of coordinates for representing the relative movement of the workpiece and the tool; and determining the angles of rotation, the feeds, the axial distance and the crossed-axes angle of the tool and the workpiece based on the first and second set of coordinates and subsequent calculation of the location of the involutes on the basis of the angles of rotation, the feeds, the axial distance and the crossed-axes angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Lienherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 9829048
    Abstract: A bearing device includes a bearing having an outer race with double-row outer raceway surfaces formed on its inner periphery, a hub wheel and an inner race having double-row inner raceway surfaces formed on outer peripheries thereof opposed to the outer raceway surfaces, and double-row rolling elements interposed between the outer and inner raceway surfaces. The bearing has a constant velocity universal joint separably coupled thereto with a screw fastening structure, in which a stem section of an outer joint member of the constant velocity universal joint is fitted to an inner diameter portion of the hub wheel, and in which a plurality of convex portions extending in an axial direction are formed on the stem section, and a plurality of concave portions having an interference with respect to only circumferential side wall portions of each of the plurality of convex portions are formed on the hub wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Mochinaga, Takayuki Norimatsu
  • Patent number: 9370830
    Abstract: A milling tool for use with a rotary drive mechanism. The tool includes a cylindrical torque transmission shaft, a cylindrical sleeve which receives the torque transmission shaft therein, and a hood for attaching to the sleeve member, where the torque transmission shaft is rotatably supported in the sleeve. The tool also includes a hood having a cylindrical body portion, a transverse flange and a C-shaped collar attached to and extending outwardly from an outer edge of the flange. The tool also includes a fence which is adjustably attached to the hood, and a cutting wheel including a rotatable disc and a plurality of cutting bits respectively mounted on the disc. The cutting wheel is disposed inside the collar and proximate the fence, and is affixed to an end of the torque transmission shaft for concurrent rotation therewith. Methods of using the milling tool for machining weld seams are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Inventor: Philip Heck
  • Patent number: 9149855
    Abstract: An apparatus including rigid plate having a first face and a second face, a plurality of through seats arranged as a circular crown about an axis of symmetry (A), perpendicular to each seat and shaped as a circular crown segment; a plurality of knives carried by the plate, each being axially slidingly guided into a seat, independently of the other knives; each knife has a head which protrudes from the seat from the side of the first face, a prismatic body having an axial length greater than the seat, and a wedge-shaped end, opposite to the head, which protrudes from the second face when the head substantially abuts against the first face; the wedge-shaped ends circumferentially having a first profile, complementary to that of the frontal toothing to be obtained, and the knives can be replaced totally or partially with others having a second profile different from the first profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Domenico Bosco, Davide Antonio Olivieri, Marcello Rossi, Cengiz Shevket
  • Patent number: 9132469
    Abstract: A method including the steps of forming an inner ring of the wheel hub, as the joining of a spindle and an insert ring fitted onto the spindle, on the side of a first end of the spindle; axially blocking the insert ring on the spindle by plastically deforming the first end of the spindle so as to form an upset collar therewith, which axially protrudes from the insert ring; and once the step of forming the upset collar has finished, frontally obtaining on the collar, on the side opposite to the insert ring, a frontal toothing by axially impressing on the collar one or more knives in sequence, carried in an axially sliding manner by a plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Domenico Bosco, Davide Antonio Olivieri, Marcello Rossi
  • Patent number: 8997354
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a toothed member includes a thickened tooth shaping process in which a toothed shape is formed on a side wall portion while making a thickness of the side wall portion larger than a thickness of a bottom surface portion by relatively moving the compression die with respect to the restraint die and the pressure receiving member in the axial direction from the side of the opening end of the cup-shaped raw material toward the bottom surface portion. The manufacturing method being such that the thickened tooth shaping process includes applying a load against the restraint die such that the restraint die restrains the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Iwata, Tomoyuki Hori, Naoki Yokoyama, Hiroshi Shibata, Masayuki Maki
  • Publication number: 20150075003
    Abstract: [Task] To provide a method that makes it possible to easily, inexpensively and accurately manufacture a machined part with a simple configuration and an excellent strength. [Means for Solution] In a method for manufacturing a machined part according to the invention, a dislocation is partially introduced (S3), through shot peening, only into a surface layer of a raw material 1 in a region 1a to be machined, graphite is partially deposited (S4), through heating, only in the surface layer of the region 1a to be machined, and then, the surface layer of the region 1a where graphite is deposited is removed, through machining (S5), only by an amount corresponding to a working margin 1c, thereby manufacturing a machined part 1?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Inagaki, Masahiko Mitsubayashi, Takaaki Kanazawa, Hiroyoshi Tawa
  • Patent number: 8967925
    Abstract: A machine tool re-machines a workpiece after positioning drive motors, a hob and the workpiece by stopping the drive motors with the rotational positions of the drive motors, the hob and the workpiece corresponding to their respective zero positions. For this purpose, a drive control section recognizes, based on the rotational-speed ratio of the drive motor corresponding to the hob and the hob and/or the rotational-speed ratio of the drive motor corresponding to the workpiece to the workpiece, and detection signals from detection sensors detecting that the rotational positions of the drive motors are at their respective zero positions, detections signals when the rotational positions of the drive motors and the rotational positions of the hob and the workpiece correspond to their respective zero positions, and stops the drive motors with the rotational positions of the drive motors, the hob and the workpiece corresponding to their respective zero positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: DMG Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Tsuchimochi
  • Patent number: 8910381
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a helical gear, includes a gear cutting process for forming a roughly-processed gear by applying a gear cutting to an outer circumferential surface of a blank, and a tooth surface forming process for forming a tooth surface by pressing a rolling die against a roughly-processed tooth surface of the roughly-processed gear, wherein a length of a portion of the roughly-processed tooth surface, to which a plastic deformation is applied by the rolling die, in a face width direction is formed to be shorter than a length of a face width of the roughly-processed tooth surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignees: Aisin AI Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Kitaoka, Keisuke Atsumi, Koji Takaira, Seiji Hiroshima, Takaaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8887394
    Abstract: The invention describes a device (1) for calibrating a sintered molded part (2) with an angular toothing (3) by means of a calibrating tool (4), comprising a lower punch (15) for mounting the sintered molded part (2) with a lower punch external toothing (23), a vertically movable and axially rotatably mounted upper punch (8) with an upper punch external toothing (21), as well as an axially rotatably mounted die (14) with a die internal toothing (24). The lower punch (15) is mounted to be moveable only in vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Miba Sinter Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Schoegl, Herbert Schmid, Christian Kronberger, Dietmar Gebhart, Johannes Koller
  • Patent number: 8881401
    Abstract: A degree of freedom of a hypoid gear is improved. An instantaneous axis in a relative rotation of a gear axis and a pinion axis, a line of centers, an intersection between the instantaneous axis and the line of centers, and an inclination angle of the instantaneous axis with respect to the rotation axis of the gear are calculated based on a shaft angle, an offset, and a gear ratio of a hypoid gear. Based on these variables, base coordinate systems are determined, and the specifications are calculated using these coordinate systems. For the spiral angles, pitch cone angles, and reference circle radii of the gear and pinion, one of the values for the gear and the pinion is set and a design reference point is calculated. Based on the design reference point and a contact normal of the gear, specifications are calculated. The pitch cone angle of the gear or the pinion can be freely selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkysho, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Aoyama, Mizuho Inagaki, Kiyokazu Sunami, Sho Honda, Yoshikatsu Shibata, Hiromi Miyamura
  • Patent number: 8826540
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for influencing the cut and functional face, especially the reduction, during fine blanking of a finished part, for example, a gear, cut out of a metal strip, wherein the metal strip is clamped during closure between an upper part at least comprising a cutting punch and guide plate for the cutting punch and a lower part at least comprising a die plate and ejector and in a first working stage a blank with reduction is cut out of the metal strip. The invention has the task of providing a method and a device for purposefully influencing the cut and functional face, especially the reduction, during the production of finished parts, like gears, making it possible to purposefully influence or totally eliminate the edge reduction, while simultaneously maintaining the functional surfaces and saving material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Feintool Intellectual Property AG
    Inventors: Ukrich Schlatter, Andreas Delis
  • Patent number: 8819936
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gear by a skiving process, the skiving process utilizing a cutter including a rotational axis inclined to a rotational axis of a work to be processed into the gear, the skiving process feeding the cutter in a tooth trace direction of a tooth to be formed at the work in a state where the cutter rotates in synchronization with the work, the method includes a surface hardening process for hardening a work surface of the work before the skiving process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eiri Nagata
  • Patent number: 8769820
    Abstract: A method and a device for machining the tooth edges (23, 25) developed between each end face (22, 24) and the tooth flanks (26, 27) of end-cut work wheels (2). The axis of rotation (20) of the spindle that carries the machining tool (21) is displaced around an orthogonal swivel axis (16) relative to the tool axis of rotation so that the cutting directions are opposite to each other with respect to the work wheel (2) in the machining of the lower tooth edges (23) and the upper tooth edges (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Gleason-Pfauter Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Philippin, Juergen Pastow
  • Publication number: 20140144269
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a multi-stage gear in which no gap is formed between a small-diameter gear and a large-diameter gear, there are included a first step of forming the small-diameter gear on an outer peripheral surface of a workpiece, a second step of forming a large-diameter gear part by plastically deforming an end portion of the workpiece to increase the diameter thereof, and a third step of forming the large-diameter gear by cutting the large-diameter gear part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Sukeda, Hirofumi Inoshita, Koji Shimoda, Akinori Tomioka, Toshiaki Masui, Hironori Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8732937
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting teeth in workpieces, wherein, in a roughing operation, a substantially uncut blank receives rough teeth using a cutting tool having cutting teeth. Operation teeth are produced, the tooth width of which is defined by the spacing between the flanks of the teeth and is greater than the target dimension. In a subsequent deburring operation, a chamfer is incorporated into the end face edge of the tooth flanks, accompanied by the removal of an end face burr. Lastly, in a smoothing operation, the tooth width of the teeth is brought to the target dimension by machining the tooth flanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Profilator GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Erich Prock, Marcel Sobczyk
  • Publication number: 20140053405
    Abstract: In a method for producing toothed sections on workpieces, a toothed section is firstly produced by means of a first tool in the region of a first end face of a workpiece to be toothed. The produced toothed section is reworked on the peripheral face by means of at least one second tool in the region of the first end face, while the toothed section is further produced. If the toothed section is also produced in the region of the second end face by means of the first tool, the reworking in the region of the first end face is already completed, so the toothed section can also be reworked in the region of the second end face. Short cycle times are thereby achieved with a low machine-related outlay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: MAG IAS, GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fleischer, Mario Wiesel
  • Patent number: 8660684
    Abstract: A method of determining a desired power level (P) as a function of relative tool to workpiece position, thereby enabling adaptive control advantages that were previously inaccessible for machining, such as bevel gear grinding, from solid applications. Preferably, set point power is expressed as a function of specific power (P?, P?) and roll position (Q) for a generated gear or as a function of specific power and plunge position for a non-generated (i.e. Formate) gear. Specific power is defined and preferably remains as defined during machining even as process conditions vary during machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: The Gleason Works
    Inventors: Eric G. Mundt, Richard F. Culbert, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8596939
    Abstract: A method for cutting teeth in workpieces, wherein, in a roughing operation, a substantially uncut blank receives rough teeth using a cutting tool having cutting teeth. Operation teeth are produced, the tooth width of which is defined by the spacing between the flanks of the teeth and is greater than the target dimension. In a subsequent deburring operation, a chamfer is incorporated into the end face edge of the tooth flanks, accompanied by the removal of an end face burr. Lastly, in a smoothing operation, the tooth width of the teeth is brought to the target dimension by machining the tooth flanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Profilator GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Erich Prock, Marcel Sobczyk
  • Patent number: 8506214
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for machining bevel gears in an indexing method and method for machining the pitch of gears, wherein the production-related pitch error is compensated. The apparatus (20) comprises an interface (11, 12) and can be connected to a measurement system (10) by means of this interface (11, 12). The interface is designed such that the apparatus (20) can take correction values or correction factors from the measurement system (10) in a form in order to be able to adapt master data or neutral data. The data, which was originally present in a memory (51) of the apparatus (20), is corrected on the basis of these correction values or correction factors before production of one or more bevel gears (31) is initiated on the apparatus (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Torsten König
  • Publication number: 20130192401
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bevel gear wheel of a bevel gear mechanism, the teeth of which bevel gear wheel have in each case a load flank and a rear flank, wherein the rear flanks have an engagement region for rear flanks of the meshing gear wheel, wherein the outer region, which surrounds the original maximum possible usable engagement region which normally comes into engagement, of the rear flank and an outer edge region of the original engagement region are reduced in terms of the face height thereof such that said reduced regions always remain free from contact and only the remaining, inner, raised region which is reduced in size comes into contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventor: Michael Potts
  • Patent number: 8490284
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gear and a method for forming a tooth profile thereof. In the method of the present invention, a cubic curve is used to modify a basic tooth shape of a standard rack to obtain an amended basic tooth shape, wherein the cubic curve contacts tangentially with the basic tooth shape at the midpoint of a dedendum, a midpoint of a lateral and a midpoint of an addendum of the basic tooth shape. The amended basic tooth shape is reproduced to obtain an amended rack, and the amended rack is further used to generate a tooth profile of a desired gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Luren Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Lung Huang, Kuang-Rong Chang, Shi-Duang Chen
  • Publication number: 20130152394
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a gearwheel, a gearwheel blank is clamped in a workholder of a multi-axis machine tool. A milling head is clamped in a tool holder which is rotated by a spindle drive to enable the milling head to mill out tooth spaces of the gearwheel blank to thereby create a gearwheel having teeth. After replacing the milling head in the tool holder with an inductor, the inductor is inserted successively between two adjacent teeth of the gearwheel and supplied with alternating current from a current supply device of the spindle drive to inductively heat at least one of the two adjacent teeth. The inductor in the tool holder is then replaced with a machining tool to remachine the teeth of the gearwheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 8302507
    Abstract: A bending state known as “coning,” in which the amount of bending of the flexspline gradually decreases in accordance with the distance from the open end of the spline, occurs in cup-type or “silk hat”-type wave gear devices. A tooth profile in which the tooth depth is kept constant and in which the bottom lands and top lands are parallel to each other along the tooth trace direction is used as the basic tooth profile for the circular spline and the flexspline of the wave gear device. A taper surface is formed on a part of the top land near the open end of the flexspline in the basic tooth profile, whereby a modified tooth profile is obtained. The modified tooth profile is employed as the tooth profile for both of the splines. Both of the splines can be caused to mesh together without generating coning-induced interference. Both of the splines can also be subjected to gear cutting by a simple process using a typical machining mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Satoru Kanai
  • Patent number: 8215880
    Abstract: An apparatus for extruding helical teeth in a gear blank includes a press including a die plate and a die base, the die plate being movable along an axis relative to the die base, the die base supporting the gear blank. A mandrel, aligned with the axis and moveable with the die plate along the axis, includes a surface that includes helical die teeth. A servo motor drives the mandrel in rotation about the axis to the required helix angle as the mandrel moves axially relative to the gear blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph A. Szuba, Emilo A. Tonello, Michael A. Cook, Rodney G. Whitbeck
  • Patent number: 8205518
    Abstract: A face gear set having a face gear and an original pinion. The original pinion may mesh with the face gear. The face gear set may have a new pinion, different from the original pinion, which meshes with the face gear in accordance with at least one design parameter different from a corresponding design parameter of the original pinion. The new pinion may have a tooth surface defined by a theoretical plane. The tooth surface of the new pinion may maintain tangency contact with the original pinion during rotation and translation of the plane over a meshing area of the original pinion with the face gear, and also during rotation of each of the face gear, the original pinion and the new pinion at constant speed about the new pinion's axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Jie Tan
  • Publication number: 20120103120
    Abstract: The one end side portion is nipped by a jig including a jig member having a pair of convex portions which are to be fitted to a depressions in contact with a tooth side face and a inclined portion and positioning a bar and a jig member which is to be clamped/opened with respect to the jig member. A die having an inside diameter smaller than the diameter of the outer periphery is pressed onto the outer periphery of the end portion of the cylindrical end side portion projected from the jig up to a press-in depth determined preliminarily based on the rack, so as to reduce the diameter of the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: NETUREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamawaki, Ryosuke Suzuki, Tetsuji Murata, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yutaka Kiyosawa
  • Patent number: 8166656
    Abstract: A method of improving working of grooves of a screw rotor, in particular, working of grooves side in working efficiency, a working apparatus, a working tool, and a method of manufacturing a screw compressor are provided. A method of controlling rotation of a work and turning of a tool at a time to form a screw tooth space based on a five-axis NC machine, and a special end mill having a cutting edge of a short length and a neck portion provided between the cutting edge and a shank portion to be made thin is used to perform working in grooves side finish working process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakasuji, Yusaku Miyamoto, Yasunori Matsumoto, Tetuji Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8151437
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for green machining bevel gears, including a CNC machining station for gear cutting a wheel blank (K2). The machining station includes a tool spindle which is used to receive a gear cutting tool and a work piece spindle which is used to receive the gear blank (K2). The machining station also relates to a machining station which operates in a vertical manner. The device also comprises a vertical processing station having a tool holder and a work piece spindle which is used to receive a work piece blank (K1). The machining station mechanically forms a functional unit together with the pre-machining station, wherein the work piece blank (K1) undergoes green machining in the pre-machining station, and is transferred as a gear blank (K2) to the first machining station after the first green machining where it is cut into a gear. The machining station and the pre-machining station are linked together in terms of data and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmuth Müller, Joachim Thomas, Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Burkhard Schneider, Dietmar Loh
  • Patent number: 8127425
    Abstract: A gear production plant has, along a gear production path, a station for preparing a number of blanks; a cutting station, where respective teeth are cut on the blanks to obtain a number of semifinished parts; a heat treating station, where the toothed semifinished parts are carburized or nitrided; and a finish station for finish machining the heat treated semifinished parts; the plant also having a check station located along the production path, downstream from the heat treating station or the finish station, and which houses an optical measuring unit for non-destructively determining the effective carburized or nitrided case depth on the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: AVIO S.p.A.
    Inventors: Salvatore Milletari, Giulio Barbato
  • Publication number: 20120003058
    Abstract: The invention concerns a machine-tool, in particular a milling machine Including a machine frame; a tool carrier mounted on the machine frame for receiving a tool; a drive device for rotationally driving the tool in the tool carrier about a tool axis; a receiving device (6) mounted on the machine frame (1), for receiving a workpiece (7); a first rotary drive device for generating a first relative angular movement between the tool carrier and the receiving device and a second rotary drive device for generating a second relative angular movement between the tool carrier and the receiving device; a translational drive device for generating a relative translation movement between the tool carrier and the receiving device along three axes; a control device, which is designed in such a way that it enables to control the relative rectilinear movements between the tool carrier and the receiving device and the relative angular movement between the tool carrier and the receiving device substantially at the same time
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hutter, Erhard Hummel
  • Patent number: 8069566
    Abstract: An operating method improves the running behavior of gearwheels negatively noticed upon gearwheel testing and is performed by a burnishing device. The gearwheels that were rejected from the production process may be optimized rapidly and in a targeted way so that they may be returned back into the production process. The tooth flanks of a gearwheel to be machined are, in a first method step, mechanically freed of particles adhering to the surfaces of the tooth flanks or slight protrusions protruding therefrom using a first gearwheel machining tool having a machining wheel coated with an abrasive agent. Subsequently, in a second method step in a second gearwheel machining tool known as a burnishing machine, the gearwheel is chucked between gearwheel-shaped rolling tools, the so-called burnishing wheels, and rolled without material abrasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linnenbrink
  • Patent number: 8051566
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rigid internal gear of a wave gear device in which an internally toothed portion formed with internal teeth and a gear main body portion are joined integrally, the method including preforming an internal teeth-forming ring or disc for forming the internally toothed portion by using a first aluminum alloy powder; manufacturing a forging in which the internal teeth-forming ring or disc is placed in a forging die and is integrally formed on its outer side with the gear main body portion using a second aluminum alloy powder, the first aluminum alloy powder being harder and having higher abrasion resistance than the second aluminum alloy powder; and applying post-processing including cutting teeth to the forging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignees: Harmonic Drive Systems, Inc., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kobayashi, Toshihiko Kaji
  • Publication number: 20110268524
    Abstract: A method for cutting teeth in workpieces, wherein, in a roughing operation, a substantially uncut blank receives rough teeth using a cutting tool having cutting teeth. Operation teeth are produced, the tooth width of which is defined by the spacing between the flanks of the teeth and is greater than the target dimension. In a subsequent deburring operation, a chamfer is incorporated into the end face edge of the tooth flanks, accompanied by the removal of an end face burr. Lastly, in a smoothing operation, the tooth width of the teeth is brought to the target dimension by machining the tooth flanks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventors: Erich Prock, Marcel Sobezyk
  • Patent number: 8006385
    Abstract: A forming method of a tooth trace of a gear according to the present invention includes: a first step of preparing a preformed gear made of metal including a cylindrical main body and a tooth part having a flat tooth flank having a uniform thickness in a tooth trace direction inside of the main body; and a second step of conducting a surface treatment locally to an outside surface of the main body in order to deform the outside surface of the main body in such a manner that the same becomes concave, so that a crowning bulging in the tooth trace direction is formed on the tooth flank of the tooth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Mataga
  • Patent number: 7979988
    Abstract: By finding a range of an allowable error of maximum meshing position of a worm shaft in an axial direction relative to a worm wheel, that is higher than that of a worm shaft of a conventional worm gear unit, a worm gear unit of the present invention is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohtaro Shiino, Yusuke Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20110126654
    Abstract: Bevel and hypoid gears are used in power transmissions including automotive applications. Provided is a net shaped bevel or hypoid gear having a generally annular gear body including a plurality of radially outwardly extending gear teeth formed from a generally annular blank made of powdered metal. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a net shaped bevel or hypoid gear including the steps of providing and optionally heat treating a generally ring-shaped or annular blank made of metal powder, then incrementally deforming the blank by orbitally forming or roll forming to produce a net shaped gear member with a plurality of outwardly extending gear teeth, which may be of a bevel or hypoid type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Leonid C. Lev, Leonid B. Aksenov, Vladimir N. Vostrov
  • Publication number: 20110079098
    Abstract: First gear for use in a gear set including a second gear has a hub to which are attached a plurality of arms made of an elastic material. Each pair of adjacent arms defines a slot between them into which the arms may bend. The arms can deflect elastically in the plane as a cantilevered beam. Each arm has on the end thereof, a tooth for meshing with a tooth on the second gear to allow transfer of force between the first gear's tooth and the meshing second gear's tooth. A load distributor in contact with at least first and second arms distributes to the second arm at least a portion of force received by the first arm's tooth while the first arm's tooth meshes with a tooth on the second gear. In one embodiment, the load distributor comprises an insert within the slot between the first and second arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Andrew Nowicki
    Inventor: Andrew Nowicki
  • Publication number: 20100319484
    Abstract: A bending state known as “coning,” in which the amount of bending of the flexspline gradually decreases in accordance with the distance from the open end of the spline, occurs in cup-type or “silk hat”-type wave gear devices. A tooth profile in which the tooth depth is kept constant and in which the bottom lands and top lands are parallel to each other along the tooth trace direction is used as the basic tooth profile for the circular spline and the flexspline of the wave gear device. A taper surface is formed on a part of the top land near the open end of the flexspline in the basic tooth profile, whereby a modified tooth profile is obtained. The modified tooth profile is employed as the tooth profile for both of the splines. Both of the splines can be caused to mesh together without generating coning-induced interference. Both of the splines can also be subjected to gear cutting by a simple process using a typical machining mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Satoru Kanai
  • Patent number: 7832070
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for increasing the operating life of a rotating gear element including a plurality of outwardly-projecting gear teeth each having an involute profile, with each gear tooth having a pair of flanks and a pair of generally semi-circular root portions. A ring tool having a plurality of hardened, inwardly-projecting burnishing teeth is employed to plastically deform only the root portions of the gear element being formed, while avoiding contact with the flanks as the gear element is passed through the ring tool. The ring tool also includes a plurality of broaching surfaces or cutting edges for removing excess stock material from the surfaces of the root portions. The ring tool increases the compressive residual stresses in the root portion of the gear element being formed, thereby creating an optimal residual stress profile and greater bending strength within the root portion of the gear element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Mordukhovich
  • Publication number: 20100229395
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rigid internal gear of a wave gear device in which an internally toothed portion formed with internal teeth and a gear main body portion are joined integrally, the method including preforming an internal teeth-forming ring or disc for forming the internally toothed portion by using a first aluminum alloy powder; manufacturing a forging in which the internal teeth-forming ring or disc is placed in a forging die and is integrally formed on its outer side with the gear main body portion using a second aluminum alloy powder, the first aluminum alloy powder being harder and having higher abrasion resistance than the second aluminum alloy powder; and applying post-processing including cutting teeth to the forging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicants: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS, INC., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru KOBAYASHI, Toshihiko Kaji
  • Patent number: 7748118
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a rigid internal gear for a wave gear device comprising an internally toothed portion and a gear main body portion comprised of different materials. In this method, a gear main body ring for forming a gear main body portion is preformed using a first aluminum alloy powder; an internal teeth-forming ring is preformed using a second aluminum alloy powder that has lower processability, is less durable, has higher abrasion resistance, and is harder than the first aluminum alloy powder; the internal teeth-forming ring is fitted inside the gear main body ring and the assembly is integrated by powder forging; and the resulting ring-shaped forging is subjected to post-processing, including cutting teeth. The gear main body portion and internally toothed portion are securely integrated by powder forging, and a lightweight rigid internal gear with high durability can therefore be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignees: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kobayashi, Toshihiko Kaji
  • Patent number: 7698816
    Abstract: A method of defining a new pinion for use with a given face gear set. Tooth geometry of the new pinion is generated by a plane taking the given face gear set as reference and maintaining true conjugate actions among the original pinion, the face gear, the new pinion and the generating plane. This method makes it possible to eliminate adapter gears for applications requiring different shaft settings and/or ratios than those of the given gear set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Jie Tan
  • Patent number: 7631428
    Abstract: A rack and pinion steering apparatus which does not need quenching of the rack shaft after gear cutting of the rack shaft in manufacturing processes is provided. The rack and pinion steering apparatus comprises a pinion shaft and a rack shaft meshing with the pinion shaft. The rack shaft is formed to have a substantially uniform hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Yamazaki, Shirou Nakano, Hironori Yamato, Youjirou Kakoki
  • Patent number: 7624505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for tooth-machining of workpieces (3), especially gear wheels, comprising milling, deburring by hobbing and integrated secondary deburring. The method proceeds on a machine tool (1) having two workpiece spindles (11, 12) which may exchange places. A workpiece (3) is mounted on a first workpiece spindle (11), followed by the workpiece spindles (11, 12) exchanging places, followed by pre-milling and, where applicable, cutting (=deburring by shaving) of the workpiece (3), followed by a further exchange of places, followed by chamfering and cutting of the workpiece (3), followed by a further exchange of places, followed by a finish-milling of the workpiece (3), followed by a further exchange of places, followed by a workpiece change. At the same time, the same procedure takes place on the second workpiece spindle (12), staggered in time by an exchange of places of the workpiece spindles (11, 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Felsomat GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut F. Jaeger, Juergen Peschina
  • Patent number: 7574798
    Abstract: A device (10) for soft machining of bevel gears, having a receptacle (12) for receiving a bevel gear blank (K1) and having a tool spindle (13.1) for receiving a cutter head (13.2). The device comprises a machining arm (11) having a pivot axis (A1) which has the tool spindle (13.1) for receiving the cutter head (13.2) on a first side and has a tool spindle (14.1) for receiving an end-milling cutter (14.2) on a second side. A CNC controller (S) puts the end-milling cutter (14.2) into rapid rotation to cut a predefined number of tooth gaps on the bevel gear blank (K1). After the machining arm (11) is pivoted, the cutter head used as the bevel gear finishing tool (13.2) is used. It is put into slower rotation to machining the bevel gear blank (K1) using the bevel gear finishing tool (13.2) in a post-machining process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Langerfeld
  • Publication number: 20090139090
    Abstract: A device for fabricating a toothing at an inner facing edge of a three-dimensional pot-shaped body produced by forming and fine blanking exclusively implemented by cutting and/or shaving with a fine blanking die and/or a shaving device. The device includes a base plate and a pressure pad between which the pot-shaped body is receivable. A pilot die is received within a hollow space of a die and is biased in an advancement direction of the die such that a portion of the pilot die protrudes from the hollow space and contacts the base of said pot-shaped body before the die when the die is advanced in the working direction. A groove is thereby created between said curved edge of the pot-shaped body and the pilot die for leading a fine blanking burr or shaving chips into the recess of the pot-shaped body. Further advancement of the die fixing and pressing the burr or the chips into the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Feintool Intellectual Property AG
    Inventor: Paul Frauchiger
  • Publication number: 20090120755
    Abstract: A coupling element, for example a coupling sleeve (1), having coupling teeth (2) which, over a part (2a) of their length, have a gradually diminishing cross-sectional profile, a so-called back rake. Over the part, the coupling teeth have a portion (7b) nearest the tooth root having a first pressure angle, which portion connects to a portion (7b) extending to the tooth tip and having a greater pressure angle than the former portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: VOLVO LASTVAGNAR AB
    Inventor: Magnus Lundberg