With Means To Continuously Rotate Work And Means To Co-form All Teeth Of Gear Patents (Class 409/28)
  • Patent number: 10857607
    Abstract: Method for gear cutting a bevel gear workpiece, wherein a preliminary machining phase includes a first machining procedure, wherein a first relative infeed movement moves the gear cutting tool into a first starting position relative to the bevel gear workpiece, the gear cutting tool penetrates the material of the bevel gear workpiece relative to the bevel gear workpiece, proceeding from the first starting position up to a first end position, and the gear cutting tool and bevel gear workpiece carry out a first rolling procedure in a first rolling range, carrying out a further rolling procedure, in order to post-machine at least one of the tooth gaps on the bevel gear workpiece using the rotationally-driven gear cutting tool or another rotationally-driven gear cutting tool, wherein in the scope of this further rolling, a rolling rotation is carried out in a further rolling range, which differs from the first rolling range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Rafael Frischtatzky, Timon Rabanus, Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Patent number: 9352406
    Abstract: Method for milling a series of teeth of a toothed gear element with teeth in a straight line with a milling cutter rotatable about a milling cutter axis and having at its periphery interchangeable cutting inserts arranged such that, when the milling cutter is brought to the toothed gear element, they reach into gaps between adjacent teeth or generate these gaps, and a corresponding milling cutter. Cutting edges of mounted cutting inserts extend radially and perpendicularly relative to the milling cutter axis. During milling of the tooth profile, the milling cutter axis is aligned in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal extent of the tooth back and, during entering of the cutting inserts, rotated about the milling cutter axis, into the surface or gaps between the teeth, and pivoted in this plane over an angular range covering all normals to the profile surface of the tooth to be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Stefan Scherbarth
  • Patent number: 9016986
    Abstract: A translocation-simulating loading apparatus for the gear grinding machine with the shaped grinding wheel is provided. The apparatus includes a load-receiving test piece disposed on the gear grinding machine with the shaped grinding wheel and a load-exerting component for use in loading simulation. The gear grinding machine enables linear movements along the X, Y, and Z axes, a rotary movement around the Y axis, a rotary movement C around the Z axis, and a rotary movement A around the X axis. An angle ? is formed between the axis L of a ball seat of the load-exerting component and the X axis direction of a Y axis component and an angle formed between the normal line of a load receiving face a and the X direction of the coordinate system of the machine tool is ?. A detection method for static stiffness distribution is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Xi'an University of Technology
    Inventors: Yumei Huang, Yao Liu, Feng Gao, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 8967013
    Abstract: A method of determining an optimized face cone element for spiral bevel and hypoid gears. The form of the root fillet of one member of a gear pair is determined and that from is transferred to the tip of the other member of the gear pair. With the inventive method, tooth root-tip clearance is optimized and the contact ratio is maximized while avoiding root-tip interference between mating gear members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: The Gleason Works
    Inventor: Qi Fan
  • Patent number: 8939687
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Profilator GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Heinemann, Mario Schulz
  • Patent number: 8747035
    Abstract: The invention relates to the production of plunge-cut crown wheels having straight or linear hypocycloid as the flank longitudinal line of the teeth. The production is performed by means of a forming method in which the axial movements are coupled. Corresponding pinions can be produced using a modified hobbing method. A corresponding tapered generating wheel is used. The milling tool carries multiple cutters. The teeth of the conical virtual generating wheel are reproduced in the engagement area by the blades or blade flanks of the cutters of the milling tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Klingelnberg AG
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Engemann
  • Patent number: 8388281
    Abstract: A face milling cutter method for manufacturing various hypocycloidal bevel gears that is characterized in that the following steps are performed to manufacture a first bevel gear: equipping a universal face milling cutter in a first configuration with a first number of cutter groups that corresponds to a first number of passes. A first bevel gear is then produced in the continuous partial method using the universal face milling cutter in the first configuration. The following steps are performed to manufacture a second bevel gear: equipping the same universal face milling cutter in a second configuration with a second number of cutter groups that corresponds to a second number of passes. The second bevel gear is then produced in the continuous partial method using the universal face milling cutter in the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Klingelnberg AG
    Inventors: Carsten Hünecke, Hartmuth Müller
  • Patent number: 7974730
    Abstract: Method for the chip-removing machining of the tooth flanks of a gear wheel having n teeth and n tooth gaps on a multiaxis grinding machine. A grinding disc which may be dressed is used for the machining and one of the n tooth gaps after another is machined using this grinding disc in the single indexing method. The grinding disc plunges into each of the n tooth gaps up to a predefined plunging depth (T1). If it is a freshly dressed grinding disc, the grinding disc is plunged using a predefined first restraint in relation to the normal predefined plunging depth into m of the n tooth gaps at the beginning of the machining of the gear wheel, to pre-machine these m tooth gaps (for this purpose: m=1, 2, or 3 and m<n). The remaining n?m tooth gaps are subsequently machined using the predefined plunging depth (T1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Klingelnberg AG
    Inventor: Alexander Dürr
  • Patent number: 7527548
    Abstract: A gear shaper machine system drives and maneuvers a hone tool to generate teeth geometry in a manner the teeth were machined prior to a hardening process. After heat treatment, the hone tool is indexed to the teeth geometry spacing of the workpiece so as to divide the stock removal evenly between the drive and coast sides. The hone tool may be driven with rotational and reciprocating synchronous teeth generating motion in which the hone tool reciprocates along the length of the teeth parallel to the centerline of the workpiece while the workpiece and hone tool rotate with synchronous motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: Edward H. Bittner, George D. Mitchell, Jr., Ronald S. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7431544
    Abstract: Bevel gear cutting machine for chamfering and/or deburring edges on the teeth of a bevel gear. The gear-cutting machine comprises a workpiece spindle, which receives the bevel gear coaxially of a spindle axis. Furthermore, a deburring spindle is provided for the receiving of a deburring tool and several numerically controllable axes are given. A deburring blade head with several blade cutter-like blade inserts serves as deburring tool, whereby the blade inserts are insertable in recesses of the deburring blade head essentially radially oriented to a deburring spindle axis (E) and comprise edges for chamfering and/or deburring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Patent number: 6905292
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gear shaping machine for the production, or more precisely machining, of gear wheels with a motor-driven rotatable machine table for holding the work-piece, a thrust spindle with a tool fixed thereto, preferably a cutting wheel, the thrust spindle being displaceable in a selective stroking and superimposed rotary motion, whereby the stroke position can be detected by a first measuring device arranged in the stroke drive, and to a method for the operation of the aforementioned gear shaping machine. The superimposed rotary motion of the thrust spindle is produced via a direct rotary drive and there is arranged in the area of the thrust spindle a second measuring device for the detection of errors in its movement path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Lienherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim Schuon
  • 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: 6390894
    Abstract: A face gear manufacturing operation wherein a set of oversized teeth are formed on a face gear or tapered pinion gear by a gear cutting operation. The oversized teeth are of a predetermined profile. The gear bearing the oversize teeth is then subjected to metallurgical surface hardening operation. At the conclusion of the heat treatment surface hardening operation, the face gear or pinion gear is subjected to a continuous grinding operation wherein a grinding wheel having a worm profile of a predetermined shape is rotated to grind the previously cut teeth to produce a finished tooth profile. The operation is CNC controlled. The gear producing apparatus requires only a slight modification to produce a face gear or a tapered pinion gear by the simple interchange of work heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Derlan Aerospace Canada
    Inventors: Ken Beel, David Fisher, Adrian Russell, George Folprecht
  • Patent number: 4757644
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing or machining a gear workpiece with a hyperboloidally, globoidally or similarly formed gearlike tool which has an abrasive or similar surface. The axes of the workpiece and tool are skew lines. During changing of the center distance, in particular as the workpiece and tool are moved apart at the end of the machining operation, the crossed-axes angle is automatically adjusted to conform to the effective rolling circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1988
    Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Manfred Erhardt, Herbert Loos
  • 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