Using Relatively Reciprocating Or Oscillating Cutter Patents (Class 409/9)
  • Patent number: 11654497
    Abstract: A method for machining a toothing of a workpiece held in a clamping, in which a toothing tool that rotates about its rotational axis and comprises cutting edges is brought into rolling chip-removing machining engagement with the toothing that rotates about its rotational axis, in order to produce a predetermined tooth flank end geometry in one or more machining passes, wherein during the machining pass which produces the tooth flank end geometry, monitoring responsive to the event of a removed chip being pressed into a machined tooth flank of the toothing by means of the rolling machining process is carried out and, if the monitoring responds, an additional toothing machining process that removes the material protrusion on top of the tooth flank end geometry formed by the chip that was pressed in is implemented automatically, which process is carried out in the same clamping of the workpiece and by means of the toothing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventor: Jürgen Kreschel
  • Patent number: 11358233
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a workpiece (3) having a second tooth system (2) incorporated into a first tooth system (1) having a specified tooth system geometry, wherein a first generative processing engagement, intersecting the second tooth system in the kinematics of the generating skiving, is made on the workpiece, which is in particular oversized in relation to the specified tooth system geometry, in particular on a transition from the first to the second tooth system, and then a second processing engagement, matching the specified tooth system geometry, in the kinematics of the generating skiving is carried out on the transition and a remaining oversize is in particular removed while doing so. The invention further relates to tools and to tooth-cutting machines suitable therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventor: Edgar Weppelmann
  • Patent number: 10688575
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for chamfering at least one edge of the gearing at the front side of a workpiece having internal gearing comprising at least one rotatably supported workpiece holder for holding the workpiece and comprising at least one rotatably supported tool holder for holding a chamfer hob, possibly a chamfer cut hob, wherein the tool holder is arranged at an internal hob arm whose free end can be traveled by a machine axis of the apparatus at least partly into the center opening formed by the internal gearing of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-VERZAHNTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Johannes Weixler
  • Patent number: 10421136
    Abstract: A method for deburring a gear blank includes correcting chamfer sizes, chamfer shapes and chamfer symmetry at tooth edges which were produced with a deburring cutter with a strongly asymmetric tooth shape (ChamferCut). The chamfers are semi-automatically corrected by coupling the movement of several axes of a gear cutting machine, including a workpiece axis of rotation C1, spatial shifting axes of a machine column Z1, X1, and Y1, and a V1-axis corresponding to the tool axis. The method further includes specifying a correction in the axial direction in one of the axes Z1, V1 and C1, and calculating the correction amount of further axes by the controller depending on the specified axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Oliver Winkel
  • Patent number: 10378612
    Abstract: A bevel gear set and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The bevel gear set may include a first bevel gear and a second bevel gear. The first and second bevel gears may be spiral bevel gears or hypoid spiral bevel gears. The first and second bevel gears may each have a gear tooth surface having a plurality of teeth formed thereon, such that the teeth of the first bevel gear and the teeth of the second bevel gear are configured to engage in a meshing engagement. The teeth are machined onto the respective gear tooth surface via a face milling process. Each tooth includes a tooth top, a plurality of meshing surfaces, and at least one chamfer. The chamfer may be formed at an abutment edge disposed between the tooth top and a respective meshing surface via a brushing process directly following the machining of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Shaun X. Zhao, Bhapinder Puri
  • Patent number: 9943917
    Abstract: An object is to provide a gear edge cut-off tool and a gear edge cut-off device capable of suppressing variation in the amount to cut off side edges of a gear. A gear edge cut-off tool of the present invention has a shape, in a first main plane (rake face) of a first cutting blade portion capable of cutting off a side edge of a gear wheel, that is curved or bent in a concave shape in an edge line direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KREUZ CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Syuichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 8506358
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the operation of a gear or profile grinding machine (1) for the grinding of pre-geared or pre-profiled workpieces (2), wherein the machine comprises at least one tool spindle (3) which can carry at least one grinding tool (4) and wherein the machine comprises at least two workpiece spindles (5, 6) which can at least temporarily be driven to the tool spindle (3) for cooperation of the workpiece (2) with the grinding tool (4). To improve the ratio between primary processing time and secondary processing time the invention proposes that the at least two workpiece spindles (5, 6) are pivoted around a respective axis of rotation (7, 8) for transportation from a grinding position (I) to a loading station (II) and vice versa, wherein the rotation of the two workpiece spindles (5, 6) takes place independently from another. Furthermore, the invention relates to a gear or profile grinding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Kapp GmbH, Niles Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wieland Amarell, Alfred Tenner, Bernd Weiss, Friedrich Woelfel
  • Patent number: 8235771
    Abstract: A method for honing a workpiece by passing a workpiece through a hone tool having a plurality of abrasive surfaces configured to remove a portion of all exterior machining surfaces of the workpiece as it is passed through the hone tool, the exterior machining surfaces being non-uniform and wherein the hone tool is configured to hone all of the exterior machining surfaces simultaneously as workpiece is passed through the hone tool. An assembly for honing a workpiece, the assembly having a plurality of hone tools each having abrasive surfaces configured to remove a portion of exterior non-uniform surfaces of a workpiece pushed through the hone tool, wherein the hone tool is configured to surround the entire periphery of the workpiece being passed therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Metaldyne LLC
    Inventor: Daniel R. Bankovic
  • Patent number: 7673376
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Feintool Intellectual Property AG
    Inventor: Paul Frauchiger
  • Publication number: 20090238654
    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: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Helmut F. Jaeger, Juergen Peschina
  • Publication number: 20090142153
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Erich Prock, Martin Strauch
  • Patent number: 7458157
    Abstract: A method and a tool for fabricating a toothing at a three-dimensional body produced by forming and fine blanking, especially an attachment for car seat components or the like produced out of a flat strip, wherein the flat strip by forming and fine blanking in a tool is formed into a pot-shaped body with inner forms and a substantially evenly curved edge. Afterwards, a toothing is fabricated into the edge radially extending to the inner side of the body. The toothing in the edge of the pot-shaped body is exclusively produced by cutting and/or shaving with a fine blanking die and/or a shaving device, and a burr and/or shaving chips developing during cutting and/or shaving are pressed into a recess in the base of the pot-shaped body allocated to the toothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Feintool Intellectual Property AG
    Inventor: Paul Frauchiger
  • Publication number: 20020197121
    Abstract: A machine for deburring and fine machining of the tooth flanks of toothed workpieces with a gear-shaped fine machining tool, preferably, a shaving wheel, which is in rolling engagement with a workpiece, comprising a tool spindle, a motor for driving the tool spindle, a workpiece spindle with a clamping device for the workpiece, a motor for driving the workpiece spindle, a sensor correlated with the workpiece spindle for determining the angular position of the teeth of the workpiece relative to the axis of the workpiece and an electronic gear coupling the drive motors of the tool spindle and of the workpiece spindle which, as a function of the signal of the sensor, rotates the fine machining tool and the workpiece such relative to one another that tooth and gap are aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventor: Johann Mall
  • Patent number: 6050755
    Abstract: Apparatus for chamfering and deburring the tooth end edges of straight and skew-teeth gears, comprising at least one deburring wheel arranged endways with respect to the work and meshing with it in finishing the tooth edges, comprising a toothed guide gear arranged axially beside the deburring wheel, joined to it nonrotatably and meshing with the work, comprising at least one secondary burr disk arranged rotatably endways with respect to the work on the same side as the deburring wheel and finishing the tooth edges, and comprising a machine frame featuring a work clamping fixture and a bed for a slide supporting the tool consisting of deburring wheel and guide gear, and supporting the secondary burr disk, said slide allowing infeed transverse to the axis of rotation of the work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: The Gleason Works
    Inventors: Manfred Huber, Karl Schaferling
  • Patent number: 5899645
    Abstract: The invention concerns a machine tool for the bovelling of a gear, in which two topfaces are simultaneously milled, with a rotationally driven workpiece carrier and two rotationally driven mounting spindles (13) which can be placed on the workpiece in an axial direction and whose rotationally driven angle of orientation towards the workpiece axis is adjustable in order to receive a milling machine at any one time, especially face milling cutters or single-tooth fly cutters. The workpiece is alternatively clocked or rotationally driven in a continuous manner and the mounting spindles (13) can be moved on a forwards or backwards axis in synchronization with the workpiece cycle or in synchronization with the continuous rotation of the workpiece on a fixed axis. The workpiece is moved forwards in the direction of the axis and each mounting spindle (13) is provided with a slide (12), which can be moved by an axial displacement drive (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Friedrich Albert Garschagen, Hans-Udo Heym
  • Patent number: 5882154
    Abstract: A gear finishing apparatus with helix compensation is disclosed, in which a helical gear is supported and rotated on a table by a gear holder and a tail stock, a finishing wheel is supported and rotated on a slider that can move toward and away from the finishing wheel in a substantially perpendicular direction to the gear axis, and the table and the slider are structured to relatively reciprocally move in the gear axis, wherein the gear holder comprises a drive motor for rotating a holder shaft for holding the helical gear; and a compensation drive unit by which a motor drum holding the drive motor is rotated about the gear axis, thereby compensating the circumferential speed in accordance with the helix angle of the helical gear during the relative movement of the helical gear and the finishing wheel in an axial direction of the gear and realizing high accuracy in the tooth profile of a helical gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihide Mihara, Ryoji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 5052865
    Abstract: An apparatus for deburring radial end surfaces of axially oriented splines abutting annular grooves formed in workpieces such as mainshaft gears. The apparatus includes an axially oriented reference body and a splined workpiece support member rotatably mounted with respect to the reference body. Design of the apparatus is adaptable for deburring a workpiece having either male or female splines, wherein the splines are located in an annular recess disposed within the workpiece. In a preferred form, the apparatus includes a radially oriented cutting ring adapted to engage a radially extending groove for removal of burrs from rear surfaces of the axially extending splines. Also in a preferred form, the apparatus includes a device for axially adjusting the position of the cutting ring relative to various lengths of splines to be deburred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Dana Corporation
    Inventor: Anthony R. Kaczmarek
  • Patent number: 4926102
    Abstract: An involute interpolation method for machining operations is used in a numerical control apparatus.A rotational direction (G03.1) of an involute curve, an incremental distance along the involute curve or an incremental angle, a center position (X.sub.0, Y.sub.0) of a base circle and a radius (R) of the base circle are obtained per the instruction. The involute curve is interpolated using a predetermined distance or predetermined angle.The above processing is executed with a numerical control apparatus and pulse distributions are continuously carried out. Therefore, the involute curve can be interpolated without need for a special program producing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawamura, Kentaro Fujibayashi, Toshiaki Otsuki
  • Patent number: 4726720
    Abstract: A method of milling, with at least one milling cutter, teeth surfaces at an axial free end of a continuously rotatably driven workpiece comprising the steps of cutting the teeth on the continuously driven workpiece with axial relative movement between the workpiece and the milling cutter by rotating the milling cutter with constant speed relative to the rpm pf the workpiece and in the direction of an axial face of the free end of the workpiece, by the rotating milling cutter milling a roof-like surface on one side of the teeth of the workpiece always starting from an axially inwardly located basde of the teeth in a direction toward a ridge of the teeth in every milling, the roof-like surfaces of each tooth tapering toward each other away from the base of said each tooth toward the ridge adjacent the axial face of the free end of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Karl Lieser
  • Patent number: 4717293
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the chamfering of the axially facing ends of toothed cylindrical or conical workpieces in which a cutting tool arranged on a rocking lever is moved back and forth in response to the peripheral speed of the workpiece which constantly rotates about its axis. The cutting edge of the tool acts chip-removingly during each stroke that is directed onto or toward the axially facing surface of each tooth of the workpiece. The cutting edge moves along a circular segment path, the axis of which extends at least approximately parallel to a radial of the workpiece, which radial starts out from the workpiece axis and extends through the tooth which is to be worked or machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Johann Spensberger, Heinrich Fischer, Richard Mueller
  • Patent number: 4548531
    Abstract: The ends of gear teeth are chamfered using an arcuate motion cutter having a complex cross sectional shape. In an improvement of the prior trial and error techniques, the cutter shape is made correctly the first time using an algorithm which includes determining certain s-dimensions produced on a chamfer by a set of tool dimensions; comparing these to the desired maximum, minimum and nominal chamfer widths, and; then iteratively optimizing the set of tool dimensions to minimize the differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Leon H. Seitelman, Edward J. Kaveckas
  • Patent number: 4479294
    Abstract: A secondary working apparatus for secondarily machining a blank preliminarily formed with internal serrations, splines or teeth on a cylindrical plane, comprising a stationary housing structure, support means for supporting the blank with the center axis of the cylindrical plane fixed with respect to the housing structure, a plurality of shafts each having a center axis parallel with the center axis of the cylindrical plane and rotatable with respect to the housing structure about an axis coincident with the center axis of the shaft and an axis coincident with the center axis of the cylindrical plane, each of the shafts having a cylindrical eccentric axial portion having a center axis parallel with and radially offset from the center axis of the shaft, and generally cylindrical machining tools coaxially carried on the eccentric axial portions of the shafts, respectively, and each having a center axis coincident with the center axis of the eccentric axial portion of each of the shafts, the machining tools incl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1984
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hironobu Sekimoto, Norio Sato
  • Patent number: 4334810
    Abstract: In an apparatus for the cutting, deburring or breaking of the side tooth edges of gears with one or two tools which are located on the side of a guide gear and which machine the aforesaid tooth edges. The guide gear meshes with the workpiece, and, in one embodiment, is constructed as a measuring gear. Prior to the actual machining operation, the distance between the axes of the pretoothed workpiece and the measuring gear is measured independently and is made visible, if desired, on an indicating device. In order to avoid incorrect measurement results due to burrs existing on the workpiece, the guide gear can, if desired, have recesses into which extend the burrs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Horst Behnke, Herbert Loos, Udo Luhmer, Manfred Heckmaier, Rudolf Kerschl
  • Patent number: 4303359
    Abstract: A deburring apparatus is provided for automatically deburring gears having a plurality of external or internal extending teeth formed therealong at predetermined intervals from each other. The apparatus comprises a frame having a spindle on which the gear to be deburred is mounted. A main shaft is rotatably supported within the frame which, upon rotation, incrementally indexes the gear mounted on the spindle for a distance corresponding to the distance between adjacent gear teeth and, after doing so, interrupts the rotation of the spindle for a predetermined period of time. Both an eccentric member and a cam are secured to the shaft. In addition a cutting tool arm is rotatably secured at one end to the eccentric member and, at its other end, a cutting tool is mounted. A bell crank is also pivotally secured to the frame and has a cam follower mounted to one end which engages the cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Inventors: Raymond F. Nixon, Gaitskill S. Barr