Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sintered gear comprising the steps of: preparing a cylindrical green compact; gear-cutting the green compact with a hob; and sintering the gear-hobbed green compact, wherein the hob is such that a ratio of a number of cutting edges thereof per round to a number of starts thereof exceeds 8.

Abstract: Machine logic (for example, software) are choosing among pre-existing manufacturing processes to make a newly-designed physical piece part, or a piece part that reflects a modified design with respect to an earlier design. In some embodiments, the manufacturing process includes an additive manufacturing (AM) process. In some embodiments, the manufacturing process involves three dimensional (3D) printing.

Abstract: An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly that includes an electric motor with a splined drive shaft with drive shaft teeth, an ESP mechanically coupled to the electric motor that includes a splined ESP shaft with ESP shaft teeth, and a downhole component mechanically coupled to the electric motor that includes a splined component shaft with component shaft teeth. Splined couplings each include a central axis and grooves through the coupling with groove sidewalls sized to receive the shaft teeth. The grooves are angled relative to the central axis to form a space on either side of each tooth in each groove for at least a portion of the overlapped length of the tooth within the groove. Each coupling is engageable with the teeth of two of the drive shaft, the pump shaft, or the component shaft to mechanically couple the electric motor, the ESP, and the downhole component.

Abstract: A method of making a sintered part includes a step of applying a machining process to a compacted part with a tool to make a machined compacted part having a cogwheel shape, and a step of sintering the machined compacted part to make a sintered part, wherein the machining process is such that a surface of the compacted part on a side where the tool exits is supported by a plate member having a tooth pattern with same specifications as a tooth pattern of the cogwheel shape, and the tool is used to machine portions of the compacted part corresponding to tooth spaces of the plate member.

Abstract: A gear for a pump includes a gear body defining a root circle, and a plurality of gear teeth extending from the gear body radially outwardly of the root circle. Each of the plurality of gear teeth have a tip portion, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a circular thickness defined between the leading edge and the trailing edge, a first radially outwardly facing surface and a second radially outwardly facing surface. At least one of the first radially outwardly facing surface and the second radially outwardly facing surface includes a chamfered portion that extends from the leading edge toward the trailing edge across a portion of the circular thickness.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to generating a modified gear flank geometry on an active surface of the workpiece by generation grinding or honing. In at least one example, the modified gear flank geometry of the workpiece may be generated on the active surface of the workpiece by variation of an engagement depth of a tool into the workpiece in dependence on an angle of rotation of the tool. Additionally, the workpiece may comprise a cylindrical spur gear, a helical gear, a spherical gear, or a conical gear. Further, in one or more examples, the modified gear flank geometry of the workpiece includes at least one of a profile waviness or a defined periodic flank waviness.

Abstract: A vehicle differential apparatus including a pair of side gears arranged side by side along an axial line, a set of pinion gears disposed on a radial outside of the side gears so as to engage with the side gears and engaged with each other, and a housing forming a housing space of the pinion gears to rotate integrally with the pinion gears. Each of the side gears includes an inner and outer side gears, the inner and outer side gears include a first and second splines extended along helical gears formed on an outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the inner and outer side gears, respectively, and engaging with each other, and the helical gear of the first spline is formed so as to be crowned along a tooth trace thereof.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gear member formed into a cylindrical shape, the gear member having an internal gear disposed without overlapping the bearing holding portion in an axial direction, the method including: preparing a cylindrical material with a small-diameter cylindrical portion having an inner diameter corresponding to a tooth tip diameter of the internal gear in a tooth width region of the internal gear such that the small-diameter cylindrical portion is extended from the tooth width region toward the one end portion to reach the bearing holding portion; and inserting a skiving cutter from the other end portion side opposite to the one end portion of the cylindrical material to form the internal gear by skiving in the tooth width region of the small diameter cylindrical portion, and terminating the skiving at a halfway position before reaching the bearing holding portion and across the tooth width region.

Abstract: A method for machining the tooth flanks of a bevel gear workpiece includes carrying out correction machining of a concave tooth flank and a convex tooth flank of at least one tooth gap by, after machining using a first machine setting, cutting free of the concave tooth flank by the bevel gear workpiece executing a workpiece rotation in a first rotational direction having a predefined first absolute value in relation to a gear-cutting tool and/or cutting free the convex flank by the bevel gear workpiece executing a workpiece rotation in another rotational direction having a predefined second absolute value in relation to the gear-cutting tool, and finish machining the concave tooth flank using a second machine setting, which differs from the first machine setting, and finish machining the convex tooth flank using a third machine setting, which differs from the second machine setting.

Abstract: Gear pairing of a transmission with a first gear and with a second gear engaged with the first gear, whereby the first gear, in comparison to the second gear, is manufactured from a material that is less elastic or less soft, and whereby the first gear and the second gear have different normal target base pitches.

Abstract: A gear cutting machine for gear cutting a workpiece (W) using a gear shaped cutter (17), by engaging and rotating the workpiece (W) that can rotate around a workpiece axis and a gear shaped cutter (17) that can rotate around a cutter axis, while cutting and feeding the gear shaped cutter (17), including: rough cutting at a cross axis angle to the cutter axis, then moving the cutter axis by moving a predetermined angle around the workpiece axis, and performing finish cutting such that the cutter axis has an angle with regard to the workpiece axis in a plane that includes the feeding axis direction and the cutting direction after moving.

Abstract: A method of grinding the tooth slots of a workpiece with a freshly dressed grinding wheel wherein dual-machining of tooth slots is eliminated. The method comprises grinding the first few slots of a gear at a corrected depth amount which accounts for the rapid wear and other conditions of the freshly dressed grinding wheel wherein for a first number of tooth slots (e.g. 1, 2, 3 or more), the grinding wheel is fed-in relative to the workpiece by the corrected depth amount.

Abstract: An internal gear machining method and an internal gear machining device, are provided for grinding of a tooth profile of an internal gear using a barrel-shaped threaded grinding wheel. An NC device functions as a tooth profile error correction means and reduces a measured pressure angle error of a workpiece at a tooth face by correcting the radial position, the lateral position of the grinding wheel, the turning angle of the grinding wheel, and the helical motion; reduces a measured error in the direction of a tooth trace of the workpiece at a tooth face by correcting the helical motion; and reduces a measured tooth thickness error of the workpiece at a tooth face by correcting the radial position, the lateral position of the grinding wheel, and the helical motion.

Abstract: A tooth flank machining device includes a helical teeth grinding wheel, a position adjusting unit] capable of moving a relative position of a rotational axis of the helical teeth grinding wheel to a rotational axis of a work gear, and a controlling unit having a relative position controller activating the position adjusting unit to adjust the relative position of the rotational axis of the helical teeth grinding wheel to the rotational axis of the work gear so that the helical teeth grinding wheel engages the work gear with a grinding wheel tooth flank of the helical teeth grinding wheel abutting on only one of work tooth flanks forming a tooth of the work gear, a grinding wheel rotating unit controller activating a grinding wheel rotating unit, and a torque controlling unit controller activating a rotational torque controlling unit to adjust rotational torque within a predetermined range.

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.

Abstract: Provided is a gear machining method whereby a gear to be machined that is eccentrically mounted can be machined with high accuracy.

Abstract: A method for producing a toothing on an in particular round workpiece, wherein the teeth are produced by a shaping method using a tool which moves along a path which is controlled by a lifting cam and in the case of which an exchange movement that runs substantially in the radial direction of the workpiece follows a downward movement which runs in the axial direction of the workpiece and serves to produce the tooth flanks, wherein the exchange movement is superimposed with a downward movement such that a curved path is produced during the exchange, is characterized in that the relative rake angle ?rel of the tool (200) does not fall below a minimum rake angle ?min which corresponds to the rake angle ? of the tool (200), the rake angle ? being reduced by the angle ? between the longitudinal axis of the workpiece and the direction vector of the tool movement.

Abstract: Methods for generating gear teeth of a double involute-face gear drive system, curved in their longitudinal direction in form of either shortened, normal or an extended involute curve, include methods for generating the teeth of both components. Methods for generating the teeth of a double involute pinion, shaped in form of a normal involute in their profile direction and curved in their longitudinal direction in form of an either shortened, a normal or an extended involute curve, include the use of one of the following tools (1) a face hob and (2) a conical hob. Methods for generating the teeth of a face gear curved in their longitudinal direction in form of an either shortened, a normal or an extended involute curve include the use of one of the following tools (1) a rack cutter, (2) a shaper cutter and (3) a conical hob.

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.

Abstract: A method for processing a gear includes a first cutting process starting the cutting of a work by moving a cutter in a first cutting direction while maintaining a cutting depth of the work at a setting value and reducing the cutting depth of the work before a first cutter portion reaches an end portion of a cutting area in the first cutting direction and a second cutting process synchronously rotating the work and the cutter in a reverse direction of rotational directions of the work and the cutter in the first cutting process, maintaining the cutting depth of the work at the setting value, and cutting the end portion of the cutting area by moving the cutter in a second cutting direction.

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).

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for skiving a work piece that has a rotationally-symmetric, periodic structure, by applying a skiving tool. The skiving tool has a tapering collision structure. During skiving, a coupled relative movement of the skiving tool in relation to the work piece is performed. The skiving tool is rotated about a first rotation axis and the work piece is rotated about a second rotation axis. A negative tilt angle is set during skiving, and the first rotation axis runs skew with respect to the second rotation axis.

Abstract: There is provided a tool for efficiently cutting a face gear to be meshed with a helical gear. When a circular tooth thickness of a tooth tip of a cutting edge portion is represented as SatSC, a circular tooth thickness on a virtual outside diameter of a tooth profile of the helical gear in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to an axis is represented as Sat, a helix angle on the virtual outside diameter of the tooth profile of the helical gear in a cross-sectional view by a plane perpendicular to the axis is represented as ?a, and a face width of the cutting edge portion is represented as bsc, b SC ? s at - s atSC tan ? ? ? a is satisfied.

Abstract: In a method for machining a workpiece, an end face gearing is created on the end face of the workpiece by hob peeling. The workpiece is rotated about the Z axis in relation to a coordinate system with X, Y and Z axes arranged perpendicularly to one another. During creation of the end face gearing, the feed direction of the hob peeling tool encloses with the axis of rotation of the hob peeling tool an angle which is greater than 0° and less than 35°. The hob peeling tool is arranged in the X-Z plane at an angle to the X axis which is greater than 0° and less than 20°.

Abstract: A gear assembly includes a single piece gear body having a first axis of rotation and including opposing first and second surfaces each having spiroid gear teeth formed therein. The gear teeth radially extend outward from the first axis of rotation. The gear teeth on the first surface also extend from the first surface toward the second surface and the gear teeth on the second surface also extend from the second surface toward the first surface. The gear teeth on the first surface and the gear teeth on the second surface are configured to concurrently engage teeth of a pinion such that rotation of the pinion is translated to rotation of the gear body around the first axis of rotation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for generating teeth of workpieces (3) by hob peeling, having a workpiece spindle (1) that can be rotatably driven for accommodating the work wheel (3) to be geared, particularly internally, and having a tool spindle (2) that can be rotatably driven, said tool spindle (2) carrying a peeling wheel (4), which has a regular tooth pitch determined by the tooth spacing of the gearing of the workpiece (3). In order to improve the performance of the generic device and/or generic method, and to provide the peeling wheel suited therefor, it is proposed that the distance between at least some of the teeth of the peeling wheel (4) that are of identical shape corresponds to a multiple of the regular tooth pitch.

Abstract: A device for cutting teeth in gear blanks by hob peeling, the device having a workpiece spindle for holding the gear blank, the workpiece spindle being rotationally drivable about a workpiece rotational axis, the device having a tool spindle which carries a peeling wheel having cutting edges and which is rotationally drivable about a tool rotational axis, wherein the tool spindle and the workpiece spindle may be positioned relative to one another at a fixed or variable axis intersection angle, and for the purpose of forward feed and infeed, the tool spindle is movable relative to the workpiece spindle in the radial direction and in the axial direction with reference to the workpiece rotational axis by means of positioning drives, and the device having an electronic control device for controlling the positioning drives and rotationally driving the tool spindle and the workpiece spindle at a specified rotational speed ratio, optionally with a changing phase position.

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).

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool for machining a work piece having a main spindle unit with a preferably vertical spindle axis, and a machining spindle unit, particularly a hobbing spindle unit that is arranged next to the spindle axis in a direction crosswise to the spindle axis to accommodate a machining tool, with said machining spindle unit being displaceable along a first guiding direction, in particular vertically (z) by means of a first guide and crosswise, preferably perpendicularly (x) or approximately perpendicularly displaceable to the first guiding direction, particularly the vertical, by means of a second guide, can advance to a work piece clamped in the main spindle unit, and can swivel around a swivel axis (B), preferably perpendicularly to the spindle axis (A) of the machining spindle unit, and with the machining tool having an arbitrary number of helically arranged machining elements, in particular a single- or multi threaded generating means, adapted to execute generating teeth manufa

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).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a production line for carrying out the method for producing internal geared workpieces, particularly sliding sleeves. The invention discloses a method, which is advantageous with regard to production engineering, for producing a sliding sleeve and a production line for carrying out the method. With regard to the method, the invention provides that the teeth of the workpiece are made on the finished tooth contour by hob peeling, and the tooth flanks and/or the tooth faces are subsequently machined with a cutting edge tool, and with regard to the production line, the invention provides a shaping device for making teeth having a crude tooth contour, a hob peeling device, which is located downstream from the shaping device and which serves to finish the finished tooth contours of the teeth, and a tooth flank and/or tooth face machining device located downstream from a hob peeling device.

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.

Abstract: A work piece having edges comprising teeth, slots, dovetail, keyway or other irregularly shaped artifacts, can be provided with a uniform chamfer around the periphery of the work piece by bringing a grinding wheel or cutter in one single down feed at indexed intervals. The shape or profile of the grinding wheel or cutter is formed from an algorithm depending on the shape and dimensions of the work piece artifacts, such as gear teeth, etc., to provide the uniform chamfer at each slot of, for example, an internal or external gear wheel. A method of providing such a chamfer on irregularly shaped artifacts comprises forming a gear grinding wheel from the dimensions of the desired chamfer, and providing a chamfering tool or grinding wheel in accordance with an algorithm desired for the required chamfer, then bringing the gear chamfering tool in proximity to, and in contact with the edges of the work piece so as to produce a uniform chamfer on the sides and back edge.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a member with a face-geared surface including the steps of: (a) an initial process preparing a work piece and a hob, the work piece having an area to be geared, the hob having a blade, the hob being brought into an axial movement when rotated through an angle of 360 degrees about its longitudinal axis, the initial process bringing the work piece to oppose the hob with a distance; (b) a geared surface forming process forming a geared surface on a part of the area by rotating the hob about its longitudinal axis in one direction through an angle of less than 360 degrees after an establishment of a mutual engagement between the hob and the work piece which results from moving at least one of the hob and the work piece in a radial direction of the hob; (c) a retracting process retracting the at least one of the hob and the work piece in the radial direction of the hob to establish a separation of the hob from the work piece before the hob completes its 360 degre

Abstract: The present invention provides a hobbing machine. The hobbing machine includes a clamp fixture adapted to retain a gear blank. A motor is operatively connected to the clamp fixture and is configured to rotate the clamp fixture and the gear blank together at a predetermined speed. A rotatable cutter is translatable into engagement with the gear blank and is configured to cut the gear blank and thereby produce a plurality of gear teeth. A de-burring tool is translatable into engagement with the gear blank and is configured to remove burrs from the gear blank as the gear teeth are being cut. A motorized spindle is operatively connected to the de-burring tool, and is configured to power and rotate the de-burring tool at a predefined speed to optimize the removal of the burrs.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a bevel gear member, comprises the steps of providing a bevel gear blank having a gearhead, forming gear teeth on the gearhead of the bevel gear blank by simultaneously cutting gear tooth top land, gear tooth side profile and a bottom land to form an unfinished bevel gear member using a face hobbing process, and machining at least one selected surface of the unfinished bevel gear member using the top lands of said gear teeth as a datum for centering the unfinished bevel gear member, thus forming a finished product. The method is applicable for manufacturing the bevel gear member both with shaft axially extending from the gearhead and without the shaft. The bevel gear members manufactured with this method exhibit reduced runout and require simpler, less expensive tooling.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a toothed gear from a gear blank wherein the gear blank loaded into a machine tool and rotationally driven is machined by a hobbing cutter disposed on a rotationally driven tool shaft and the rough-hobbed gear, once produced, is subsequently cleared of burr by means of a rotationally driven deburring tool by causing it to chamfer the front-end edges of the inter-teeth grooves, wherein the number of revolutions of said deburring tool and rough-machined gear has a constant ratio, wherein the removal of burr is performed on said rough-machined gear invariably loaded on said machine tool in a continuous pass by using a deburring tool which is similar to a side milling cutter, has cutting teeth, and is fixedly disposed for rotation on the shaft of said hobbing cutter, wherein the front-end edges of the inter-teeth grooves are successively machined in the way of a gear hobbing process, and wherein said shaft is changed from the gear hobbing setting over to a burr removal setting.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a compound helically toothed planet gear for a planetary gear set wherein the individual gear elements of the compound planet gear have different leads. The method identifies and utilizes the several factors affecting gear timing for compound helical planet gears having different leads to provide planet gears capable of attaining equal load share among the several gears of the planetary gear set. Specifically, the method of the present invention utilizes a mounting shoulder and bore axis to provide common locating features for use throughout the manufacturing process The method further provides for bore honing and removal of equal amounts of material from both sides of each gear tooth in the gear finishing process so as not to alter gear timing between the compound gear elements.

Abstract: A forming method for milling teeth of variable tooth worms (VTW) with the following features: on a multi-axis simultaneously-working CNC machine-tool a moving coordinate system {?1(?1)[O1;{right arrow over (i)}1(?1),{right arrow over (j)}1(?1),{right arrow over (k)}1 (?1)]} is correlated to the worm blank of the VTW worms, whereon the worm blank of the VTW worms rotates around {right arrow over (k)}1(?1)-axis at angular speed |{right arrow over (?)}1|; another moving coordinate system {?2(?2)[O2; {right arrow over (i)}2(?2), {right arrow over (j)}2(?2), {right arrow over (k)}2(?2)]} is correlated to the milling cutter, whereon the milling-cutter rotates around {right arrow over (k)}2(?2)-axis at angular speed |{right arrow over (?)}2|, |{right arrow over (?)}1|/|{right arrow over (?)}2|=i12 and i12 is a constant; the feed motion of the milling cutter comprises the radial shift along {right arrow over (i)}2(o2)-axis and the peripheral shift around {right arrow over (k)}2(?2)-axis; the equations of the cutting

Abstract: A chamfer hob for and a method of providing a chamfered end and having an identical chamfer angle at both a front face and a back face of a gear including a shaft, a plurality of helical cutting vanes extending radially outwardly from the shaft, such that the radially outward surface of the cutting vanes defines a hob diameter, and a hob radius, a predetermined radial width of the desired chamfer and a depth of chamfer, such that the chamfering is done on both faces of the gear teeth ends resulting in a uniform chamfer around the periphery of the complete gear tooth.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a gear component. The apparatus includes a plurality of tooling stocks movable relative to a base. The tooling stocks function to retain a component, as well as operably driving a combination hob/shaver tool and a combination chamfer/debut tool. The apparatus reduces the number of machines required to complete the gear component as well as reducing the cycle time for complete component manufacture. In this way, a more efficient manufacturing system is provided, whereby capital investment and operational costs are reduced.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a gear component. The apparatus includes a plurality of tooling stocks movable relative to a base. The tooling stocks function to retain a component, as well as operably driving a combination hob/shaver tool and a combination chamfer/debur tool. The apparatus reduces the number of machines required to complete the gear component as well as reducing the cycle time for complete component manufacture. In this way, a more efficient manufacturing system is provided, whereby capital investment and operational costs are reduced.

Abstract: A chamfer hob for and a method of providing a chamfered end and having an identical chamfer angle at both a front face and a back face of a gear including a shaft, a plurality of helical cutting vanes extending radially outwardly from the shaft, such that the radially outward surface of the cutting vanes defines a hob diameter, and a hob radius, a predetermined radial width of the desired chamfer and a depth of chamfer, such that the chamfering is done on both faces of the gear teeth ends resulting in a uniform chamfer around the periphery of the complete gear tooth.

Abstract: On account of the constructional form of the tool head (17) according to the invention, the opposite sides (18, 19) of a tool (13) attached to the tool spindle (14) of a numerically controlled continuously generating gear grinding or hobbing machine are capable of machining the upper and lower sets of teeth (2, 3) of a double-sided face-gear (1) in one and the same set-up and without disturbing the synchronization between the rotations of the grinding worm and workpiece maintained during the grinding of the first set of teeth, without risk of collision. This eliminates the need to reset the workpiece (1) between the machining of the two sets of teeth (2, 3), thereby shortening the overall machining time substantially, and allowing the avoidance of accuracy losses due to the resetting of the workpiece (1).

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a gear component. The apparatus includes a plurality of tooling stocks movable relative to a base. The tooling stocks function to retain a component, as well as operably driving a combination hob/shaver tool and a combination chamfer/debur tool. The apparatus reduces the number of machines required to complete the gear component as well as reducing the cycle time for complete component manufacture. In this way, a more efficient manufacturing system is provided, whereby capital investment and operational costs are reduced.

Abstract: A gear and method for producing the gear. The gear has a gear tooth profile conjugate to a gear basic-cutter tooth-profile having an addendum with a convex portion having an addendum point proximal to a pitch line and a dedendum with a concave portion having a dedendum point proximal to the pitch line. The convex portion is complementary with a corresponding portion of a mating-gear basic-cutter tooth-profile dedendum. The concave portion is complementary with a corresponding portion of the mating-gear basic-cutter tooth-profile addendum. A transition zone between the addendum point and the dedendum point has a predetermined width. The gear basic-cutter tooth-profile has a predetermined half pitch relief at the pitch line and continuity of profile and continuity of slope at the addendum point.

Abstract: A headstock 10 having a chuck 12 and a tailstock 20 having a shaft 21 are mounted on a bed 1 and can move with respect to each other in the direction of the Z-axis, A carriage 50 is slidably mounted on the bad 1 and can move in the Z-axis direction with respect to the rotational axis of a spindle 11. A turning device (lathe tool) 30 is provided to perform a turning operation on a workpiece and a gear cutting device 40 is provided to perform a gear cutting on the workpiece. The turning device 30 and the gear cutting device are preferably slidably mounted on the carriage 50 in a side-by-side relationship. The turning device 30 and the gear cutting device 40 may have respective traverse slide bases 31 and 41. The traverse slide bases 31 and 41 are mounted on the carriage 50 and can move independently in the direction of the X-axis perpendicular to the axis of the spindle 11, i.e. in a traverse sliding direction.

Abstract: A cutter blade for use with a face hob type cutter for producing the teeth of spiral bevel and hypoid gear members by a continuous index, face hobbing process comprises a cutter blade shank having a cutting member provided at one end thereof. The cutting member includes a tooth side cutting edge having a given axial pressure angle, and a tooth topland cutting edge. The tooth topland cutting edge of the cutting member simultaneously forms a topland surface of the tooth of the gear member as the tooth is cut by the tooth side cutting edge of the cutting member.

Abstract: A cutter blade for use with a face hob type cutter for producing the teeth of spiral bevel and hypoid gear members by a continuous index, face hobbing process comprises a cutter blade shank having a cutting member provided at one end thereof. The cutting member includes a tooth side cutting edge having a given axial pressure angle, and a tooth topland cutting edge. The tooth topland cutting edge of the cutting member simultaneously forms a topland surface of the tooth of the gear member as the tooth is cut by the tooth side cutting edge of the cutting member.

Abstract: A mechanical gear hob is equipped with an automatic stock divide device that enables the hob to cut or re-cut gear parts that already have teeth in them by automatically synchronizing the gear teeth to the hob cutter. The hob is equipped with a hob shift position sensor and a hob cutter rotary position sensor to input to a controller the lateral and rotary positions of the hob cutter. A stock divide sensor is mounted adjacent the worktable to determine the location of the gear teeth previously formed in the workpiece. A servomotor is mounted to the differential input shaft in the hob drive train and has a rotary position feedback to the controller as well. Stock divide is accomplished by an input to the differential, causing the workpiece to rotate relative to the hob cutter to bring the existing teeth on the workpiece into phase with the teeth of the hob cutter.