Form Patents (Class 74/462)
  • Patent number: 9550243
    Abstract: A gear includes teeth 3 to be engaged with teeth of a corresponding gear to transmit a rotational motion, in which a form (b) of a tooth root side of each tooth 3 includes: a first curved surface c which smoothly connects with a tooth surface a having an involute curve and has a profile represented by a curve which is convex in a direction opposite to the involute curve of the tooth surface a; and a second curved surface d which smoothly connects with the first curved surface c and has a profile defined by a quadratic function having a curve being convex in the same direction as that of the first curved surface c. Therefore, a stress generated on the tooth root side at the time of engagement with the teeth of the corresponding gear can be reduced, and the strength of the teeth can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Ohmi
  • Patent number: 9428085
    Abstract: A disc recliner for a seat assembly includes a fixed plate secured to a seat cushion and a rotatable plate secured to a seat back. Each of the fixed and rotatable plates has a plurality of teeth, the number of teeth not being equal. A flex spline has a plurality of teeth, the number of teeth being equal to the number of teeth on the fixed plate. A wave generator causes a portion of the teeth on the flex spline to meshingly engage with the teeth on the fixed and rotatable plates. Rotation of the wave generator causes the teeth on the flex spline which meshingly engage with the teeth on the fixed and rotatable plates to change, thereby causing the rotatable plate to rotate relative to the fixed plate, which in turn causes the seat back to pivot relative to the seat cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Magna Seating Inc
    Inventors: Randolph P Villarroel, Xiao J Wei, Omar D Tame
  • Patent number: 9416861
    Abstract: In the strain wave gearing, an involute positive deflection tooth profile of a low pressure angle of less than 20° is used as the basic tooth profile for the rigid internal spur gear and the flexible external spur gear in order to increase the effective tooth depth. Continuous meshing of the two gears in the tooth trace direction is made possible by shifting the external teeth so that the linear parts of the rack tooth profiles coincide when viewed along the tooth trace direction. The root rim thickness of the front end of the external teeth of the flexible external spur gear is set to an optimal thickness and the root rim thicknesses at various positions other than the front end of the external teeth in the tooth trace direction are set to appropriate values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9339879
    Abstract: For machining a concave-convex gear in which concave teeth of the concave-convex gear and convex teeth of a mating gear are formed in a circumferential direction, to allow torque transmission to or from the mating gear, in a trajectory extracting step a relative movement trajectory of each convex tooth of the mating gear with respect to the concave-convex gear at the time when torque is transmitted is first extracted as a machining target. Then, in a machining step, the concave teeth of the concave-convex gear are machined on a disc-shaped workpiece by moving at least one of the disc-shaped workpiece and a working tool such that a relative movement trajectory of the working tool with respect to the disc-shaped workpiece coincides with the relative movement trajectory of each convex tooth of the mating gear with respect to the concave-convex gear extracted in the trajectory extracting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ando, Masayuki Takeshima, Ikuko Hirota
  • Patent number: 9334845
    Abstract: The engine starting device includes a pinion unit which is spline-coupled to an output shaft side of a starter motor to slide in an axial direction, the pinion unit including a one-way clutch which spins for rotation in the same direction as that of rotation of the engine, and a pushing mechanism for moving the pinion unit to a position in which the pinion unit comes into meshing engagement with a ring gear. A pinion gear of the pinion unit is movable in the axial direction as a single body, and includes a chamfered portion having a curved surface along a tooth surface on a non-torque transmitting surface side and a large length in the axial direction, the chamfered portion being provided to a ring-gear side distal end portion of the tooth surface on the non-torque transmitting surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Mizuno, Akihiko Imagi, Hiroaki Kitano, Koichiro Kamei, Kazuhiro Odahara, Masami Abe
  • Patent number: 9242582
    Abstract: A fitting (10), in particular for a motor vehicle seat, includes a first fitting part (11), on which a ring gear (17) is formed, a second fitting part (12), on which a gear (16) is formed, which meshes with the ring gear (17), whereby the two fitting parts (11, 12) are in a transmission connection with each other, and a rotatably mounted, revolving eccentric for driving a relative rolling motion of the gear (16) and the ring gear (17). The eccentric is driven by a carrier, wherein during said rolling motion, a tooth flank (16d) of a tooth (16a) of the gear (16) contacts a tooth flank (17d) of a tooth (17a) of the ring gear (17) at a pitch point (W). The radius of curvature (K1) of the tooth flank (16d) of the tooth (16a) of the gear (16) at the pitch point (W) and the radius of curvature (K2) of the tooth flank (17d) of the tooth (17a); of the ring gear (17) at the pitch point (W) are at least approximately equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: KEIPER GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Thiel
  • Patent number: 9226485
    Abstract: A fishing reel employs a driving mechanism having a cooperative pinion gear and a face gear. The face gear has a tooth form with a cross-section wherein the cross-section of the inner pitch portion is less than the cross-section of an outer pitch portion. The pinion gear effectively engages the inner pitch portion less than an outer pitch portion to provide a more uniform distribution of torque and to improve the wearing rate of the gear mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Heligear Engineering (H.K.) Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Chung Cheung
  • Patent number: 9180734
    Abstract: In a machining tool, multiple tooth forming portions for plastically forming spline teeth on an axial end face of a vehicle hub unit, the axial end face facing inward in the vehicle lateral direction, are formed in a circular pattern about the central axis of the machining tool. In the machining tool, a rounded-portion forming portion is formed to form a rounded portion between a tooth flank and a top land of each spline tooth, and the radius of the rounded-portion forming portion gradually changes in the radial direction about the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Toda, Takaaki Onizuka, Katsuyuki Harada
  • Patent number: 9154015
    Abstract: A pressure angle of the worm is set to be greater than a pressure angle of the worm wheel so that a maximum number of meshing teeth becomes smaller than or equal to n (where n is a natural number) with respect to the speed reduction mechanism in which a number of meshing teeth is always n+1 or changed between n+1 and n by rotation under a condition in which the pressure angles of the worm and the worm wheel are the same with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Horikawa, Hideyuki Yagi, Itaru Soga
  • Patent number: 9091338
    Abstract: A transmission gear has a tooth surface formed of a free-form surface instead of an involute surface and a root area formed of a free-form surface instead of a trochoid surface. With such a transmission gear, the fatigue strength against contact pressure can be increased by reducing the Hertzian stress in the area around the meshing point of the tooth surface. The tooth surface is formed of a free-form surface in which the smallest radius of curvature in an area around a mating pitch point is maximized, and the fatigue strength against bending can be increased by reducing the bending stress at a tooth root portion of the bottom land. In addition, the gear noise can be reduced. The bottom land is formed of a free-form surface in which the smallest radius of curvature in an area around a tooth root is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: O-OKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsushige O-oka, Yoshiki Kawasaki, Mitsuhiko Shimomura
  • Patent number: 9057372
    Abstract: A gear includes a gear root defined by a stretched root blended into an involute tooth profile curve within a True Involute Form diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: David L. Wakefield, Weishun Ni
  • Patent number: 9052010
    Abstract: A half of a tooth right-angled cross-sectional shape in a tooth bottom side area of a tooth divided at a tooth bottom center is defined by a first involute portion extending from the tooth bottom center P0 toward a tooth surface, an arcuate portion connected smoothly to the first involute portion, a second involute portion connected smoothly to the arcuate portion, a third involute portion connected smoothly to the second involute portion, and a tooth surface connecting curved portion connecting the third involute portion and the tooth surface smoothly. Radii of curvature of the arcuate portion and the first, second and third involute portions are determined so that a stress variation width in a stress state of a so-called partly reverse state caused by tensile stress and compression stress generated in the tooth bottom side area of the tooth before and after the meshing of the tooth can be uniformized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Yasushi Kajiwara
  • Patent number: 8967012
    Abstract: A double involute pinion-face gear drive provides transmission of torque and speed, or direction of movement modification between non-intersecting shafts at right angles to one another. A double involute cylindrical pinion on one axis, engages a rotatable disk-shaped gear on the second axis. The teeth of the pinion are curved in an abridged, normal or extended involute shape. Likewise, the teeth of the face gear are curved in abridged, normal or extended involute shape in the lengthwise direction of the teeth. These gear drives can be simultaneously bi-rotational and bi-directional and allow a relatively wide range of speed ratios, as low as 1:1 and as high as 7.5:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Ioan Napau, Mircea Napau
  • Patent number: 8944519
    Abstract: A rack and pinion arrangement includes rack and pinion rods having a carrier bar, a guide bar and inner rack and pinion teeth for interaction with a driving sprocket. An end tooth at both ends of the each rack and pinion rod has a change in radius of curvature, and the tooth profile of the inner rack and pinion teeth has a change in radius of curvature. The change in radius of curvature of the end teeth is lower than the change in radius of the inner rack and pinion teeth. The end tooth head of the end teeth is lower than the tooth heads of the inner rack and pinion teeth. The end tooth in the region of the change in radius of curvature has a greater tooth width than the inner rack and pinion teeth in the region of the change in radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Pietrala
  • Patent number: 8863602
    Abstract: An oilfield pumping unit two-stage transmission gear reducer includes a low speed stage having a low speed shaft configured to receive motion from an intermediate shaft. A first gear pair includes a low speed shaft double circular arc gear mounted on the low speed shaft and configured to be driven by an intermediate shaft double circular arc gear mounted on the intermediate shaft. A high speed stage includes a high speed shaft configured to receive motion from an intermediate shaft. A second gear pair has a high speed shaft involute gear mounted on the high-speed shaft and configured to be driving an intermediate shaft involute gear mounted on the intermediate shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Inventors: Weidong Gao, Liu Qiang
  • Patent number: 8844397
    Abstract: An oilfield pumping unit two-stage transmission gear reducer includes a low speed stage having a low speed shaft configured to receive motion from an intermediate shaft. A first gear pair includes a low speed shaft double circular arc gear mounted on the low speed shaft and configured to be driven by an intermediate shaft double circular arc gear mounted on the intermediate shaft. A high speed stage includes a high speed shaft configured to receive motion from an intermediate shaft. A second gear pair has a high speed shaft involute gear mounted on the high-speed shaft and configured to be driving an intermediate shaft involute gear mounted on the intermediate shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventors: Weidong Gao, Liu Qiang
  • Patent number: 8833192
    Abstract: A functional portion of an edge of each tooth of the toothed wheel has a profile which complies with the parametric double formula (in Cartesian coordinates): x ? ( u ) = R 1 ? [ cos ? ( 1 ? ? ln ? ( 1 - ? ? ? u ) ) - u ? ? sin ? ( 1 ? ? ln ? ( 1 - ? ? ? u ) ) ] y ? ( u ) = R 1 ? [ sin ? ( 1 ? ? ln ? ( 1 - ? ? ? u ) ) + u ? ? cos ? ( 1 ? ? ln ? ( 1 - ? ? ? u ) ) ] where R1=d1 cos(??a tan ?), ? and d1 being parameters, where ? is a parameter which corresponds to the coefficient of friction at the contact between said edge and an edge of a tooth of another wheel, ? being able to take values between 0.05 and 0.5, and where u is a variable which varies in the interval (0, 1/?) such that by varying u, the profile is passed through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Eta SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Helfer
  • Patent number: 8789437
    Abstract: An eccentrically cycloidal gear engagement of tooth profiles having curvilinear teeth is disclosed. One of the engaging profiles represents a gearwheel with at least two helical teeth. The flanks of each tooth of the first tooth profile are outlined, in a principal cross-section of the gearwheel, by corresponding arcs of circular curves, eccentrically shifted from a center of rotation of the gearwheel. The second tooth profile, which is conjugated with the first tooth profile, has helical cycloidal teeth. The teeth of the second tooth profile are outlined, in the same cross-section, by segments of front edges of intersecting cycloidal curves. Tips and troughs between teeth can have any shape, not intersecting with the gearwheel teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Closed Joint Stock Company “Technology Market”
    Inventors: Viktor Vladimirovich Stanovskoy, Sergey Matveevich Kazakyavichyus, Tatiana Andreevna Remneva, Vladimir Mikhajlovich Kuznetsov, Alexandr Viktorovich Stanovskoy
  • Patent number: 8789438
    Abstract: A space curve mesh driving pair and a polyhedral space curve mesh transmission are disclosed. Said space curve mesh driving pair consists of a driving wheel and a driven wheel. Axes of the driving wheel and the driven wheel are intersected at an angle of 0°˜180°, and power transmission is realized by continuous mesh between the driving tines and the driven tines; a number of driving tines are provided on said driving wheel, and a number of driven tines are provided on the driven wheel; the driving tines are uniformly arranged on an end face of a cylinder of the driving wheel, and the driven tines are uniformly arranged on the circumference of a cylindrical surface of the driven wheel. Said polyhedral space curve mesh transmission consists of an above-mentioned space curve mesh driving pair. Motion is input from an input end, and is passed through a number of pace curve mesh driving pairs to realize the speed change, then is output from one or more output ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: South China University of Technology
    Inventors: Yangzhi Chen, Zhen Chen, Jiang Ding
  • Patent number: 8752447
    Abstract: A method for establishing the gearing geometries of a gear pairing of two gears with intersection axes comprises the following steps: predetermining a first gearing geometry of a virtual first gear; calculating the geometry of the gearing of a virtual second gear, this geometry resulting during conjugated creation from a roll-off process of a tooth (1) of the predetermined geometry of the virtual first gear, whereby the roll-off process of the tooth (1) of the virtual first gear, this roll-off process underlying the calculation, is ended in the symmetrical position thereof in the tooth gap (3) of the second virtual tooth; calculating the tooth face geometry of the teeth of the first gear, this tooth face geometry resulting during the reverse conjugated creation, while underlying a full roll-off process of a tooth of the virtual second gear with the first; establishing the final geometry of the gearing of the first gear according to the tooth face geometry of the gearing of the first gear, this tooth face geom
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Prazisionsschmiede GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Gutmann
  • Patent number: 8695490
    Abstract: A drive unit that is movable between an unfired and a fired position. The drive unit comprises a handle member, a first drive gear having a first axis of rotation, and a second drive gear, engaged to the first drive gear at a mesh point, and having a second axis of rotation. The mesh point moves with respect to the axes of rotation as the handle member moves from the unfired position to the fired position. The drive unit drives an implement only when it is moved from the unfired position to the fired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Columbia Insurance Company
    Inventors: E. Mark Harris, Markus Klotz
  • Patent number: 8683887
    Abstract: A rack-and-pinion steering apparatus comprises pinion teeth formed according to proper tooth specifications in other aspects under a larger pressure angle, thereby stably offering smooth and comfortable steering feeling over a long time. The module (m), number of teeth (z), tooth depth (h) and helix angle (?) of the pinion teeth (4) are set within the following ranges, under a pressure angle (?) set within a range of 24° to 30° and a given stroke ratio. module (m): 1.8 to 2.0 number of teeth (z): 7 to 13 tooth depth (h): 2 m to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Yamazaki, Shirou Nakano
  • Patent number: 8661939
    Abstract: In a wave gear device (1), radial deflection of a flexible external gear (3) is set at 2?mn (?>1) which is larger than a normal deflection of 2nm (?=1), and the tooth depth of both gears (2, 3) is set larger than a standard tooth depth (in case of ?=1). Meshing movement locus of both gears (2, 3) is approximated by a rack in case of ?>1, and using similarity-transformation curves (AC, AD) obtained by similarly enlarging a curve (AB) on the unmeshing side at the post-stage of meshing from the vertex (deepest meshing position)(A) of the movement locus (M), the dedendum tooth profile portion (21) of a rigid internal gear (2) and the addendum tooth profile portion (31) of the flexible external gear (3) are defined and then both gears (2, 3) are brought into continuous contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8632323
    Abstract: A gear pump rotor is provided including a combination of an inner rotor and an outer rotor whose numbers of teeth are different by one, and the discharge amount of the pump is increased by an increase of the tooth depth. At least one of an addendum curve and a dedendum curve of an inner rotor is formed by a locus of one point on formation circles that satisfy moving conditions that the formation circles move from moving start points to moving end points while changing the distances from an inner rotor center to the centers of the formation circles. The centers of the formation circles move by a distance in the radial direction of a base circle, and the formation circles rotate by an angle at a constant angular velocity in the same directions of the moving directions of the formation circles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Harumitsu Sasaki, Kentaro Yoshida, Yuichirou Egami
  • Patent number: 8578807
    Abstract: A gear and drive system utilizing the gear include teeth. Each of the teeth has a first side and a second side opposite the first side that extends from a body of the gear. For each tooth of the gear, a first extended portion is attached to the first side of the tooth to divert flow of fluid adjacent to the body of the gear to reduce windage losses that occur when the gear rotates. The gear may be utilized in drive systems that may have high rotational speeds, such as speeds where the tip velocities are greater than or equal to about 68 m/s. Some embodiments of the gear may also utilize teeth that also have second extended portions attached to the second sides of the teeth to divert flow of fluid adjacent to the body of the gear to reduce windage losses that occur when the gear rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Robert F. Kunz, Richard B. Medvitz, Matthew John Hill
  • Patent number: 8573088
    Abstract: A rotational-to-linear conversion mechanism inhibits interference from occurring in places except for an engagement site to increase the efficiency of conversion mechanism and reliability, which has: a rack rod 1 including thread on its outer peripheral face; a holder member 3 provided on the outer periphery of the rack rod, rotating about the rack rod and moving in the axis direction; and revolving rollers 21 rotatably supported in the holder member, each having ring-shaped grooves formed in its outer peripheral face to be engaged with the thread, and placed at an axis angle with respect to a center axis of the rack rod to allow the ring-shaped grooves to be engaged with the thread on the rack rod. A contact face of the thread with each ring-shaped groove in an engagement site of the thread and the ring-shaped groove is formed as a convex face having different curvatures in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Kenji Hiraku, Isamu Tsubono
  • Patent number: 8556609
    Abstract: An improved geared hydraulic apparatus, comprising a pair of meshing gearwheels, mounted to be reciprocally rotatable in a casing between an inlet side and an outlet side for a fluid having, in use, a substantially transverse flow with respect to the axes of rotation of the gearwheels. The meshing gearwheels create, during their reciprocal rotation, progressive meshing configurations between respective co-operating teeth. In at least one of said progressive meshing configurations is defined, in at least one cross-section of the gearwheels, at least one closed area between respective fluid entrapment teeth. The closed area decreases until it is substantially cancelled out at and around at least one other, separate progressive meshing configuration between the aforesaid respective co-operating teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Settima Meccanica S.r.l
    Inventor: Mario Antonio Morselli
  • Publication number: 20130186225
    Abstract: A gear having a tooth form shape including, on a tooth root side of a tooth, a first curved surface connected to a tooth face of an involute tooth form and convex in a direction opposite to the tooth face, a flat surface connected to the first curved surface, and a second curved surface connected to the flat surface and convex in the same direction as the first curved surface. In a normal plane, the shape of the flat surface is a tangent in contact with a tip side end of a trajectory of motion of a tooth of a meshing partner gear and intersecting with a tooth form center line at a 30° angle, the shape of the first curved surface is circular arcs in contact with the tangent, and, the shape of the second curved surface is circular arcs in contact with the tooth face and the tangent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichirou Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8475315
    Abstract: An easily structured swing internal contact type planetary gear device is proposed which can achieve a higher meshing ratio when an involute tooth profile is adapted. Each of an internal tooth of an internally toothed gear wheel and an external tooth of an externally toothed gear wheel is formed with an involute tooth profile. Under a driving condition, one of an internal tooth body of the internally toothed gear wheel and an external tooth body of the externally toothed gear wheel is elastically deformed in an extending direction and the other thereof is elastically deformed in a contracting direction so that the number of meshing teeth becomes larger than the number of meshing teeth under a non-driving condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Tsune Kobayashi, Motoyasu Yamamori, Atsushi Ando, Katsuhito Yoshinaga, Hideki Shibata, Akira Saito, Tohru Onozaki, Naomasa Mukaide, Tomohiko Haruyama
  • Publication number: 20130112028
    Abstract: A pump rotor is an inner rotor of an internal gear pump, the inner rotor having a tooth profile, wherein a half-tooth portion of the tooth profile is formed of three tooth-profile formation circles that are elliptical or true-circular. Two of the tooth-profile formation circles are a combination of a small tooth-profile formation circle and a large tooth-profile formation circle in which the small tooth-profile formation circle is inscribed and is entirely included. A portion of the small tooth-profile formation circle forms an addendum portion of the half-tooth portion. A portion of the large tooth-profile formation circle in which the small tooth-profile formation circle is inscribed and is entirely included forms an engagement portion of the half-tooth portion. A portion of another tooth-profile formation circle that circumscribes the large tooth-profile formation circle forms a dedendum portion of the half-tooth portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8424408
    Abstract: The invention relates to the gearing of a gearwheel having a plurality of teeth. The gearwheel has a useful area and a base area of the particular tooth flank form. Viewed in normal section, the tooth base area extends from a base circle up to a useful circle. The tooth flanks of adjacent teeth in normal section are each implemented as symmetrical to one another, the axis of symmetry intersecting the base circle in the base point. According to the invention, the tooth flanks are implemented in the tooth base area as a tangent function from a relevant diameter. The tangent function merges at the relevant diameter in a constant tangent into the tooth flank form of the useful area. The tangent function merges in the tooth base area in a constant tangent into an orbit, which is tangentially applied in the base point to the base circle. Significant increases of the tooth base strength may thus be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Roth Zsolt, Etzold Mathias
  • Publication number: 20130091970
    Abstract: A transmission gear has a tooth surface formed of a free-form surface instead of an involute surface and a root area formed of a free-form surface instead of a trochoid surface. With such a transmission gear, the fatigue strength against contact pressure can be increased by reducing the Hertzian stress in the area around the meshing point of the tooth surface. The tooth surface is formed of a free-form surface in which the smallest radius of curvature in an area around a mating pitch point is maximized, and the fatigue strength against bending can be increased by reducing the bending stress at a tooth root portion of the bottom land. In addition, the gear noise can be reduced. The bottom land is formed of a free-form surface in which the smallest radius of curvature in an area around a tooth root is maximized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: O-OKA CORPORATION
    Inventor: O-OKA CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130068057
    Abstract: An idler gear assembly for a generator includes a first gear configured for coupling to a second gear. The first gear includes a first shaft aligned along a first shaft axis, the first shaft having a first shoulder with a first axial face and a second shoulder with a second axial face diametrically opposed from the first axial face, diametrically opposed first and second grooves about a circumference of the first shoulder and a first set of teeth circumferentially located about the first shaft axis, the first shaft includes a first axial distance from the first axial face to the second axial face. The second gear includes a second shaft aligned along a second shaft axis, the second shaft having a diametrically opposed first and second tangs, and a second set of teeth circumferentially located about the second shaft axis, the second shaft includes a second axial distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: HAMILON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Andrew P. Grosskopf
  • Patent number: 8381608
    Abstract: A gear having a tooth form shape includes, on a tooth root side of a tooth, (1) a first curved surface connected to a tooth face of an involute tooth form and convex in a direction opposite to the tooth face, (2) a flat surface connected to the first curved surface, and (3) a second curved surface connected to the flat surface and convex in the same direction as the first curved surface. The shape of the flat surface in a normal plane is a tangent in contact with a tip side end of a trajectory of motion B of a tooth of a meshing partner gear and intersecting with a tooth form center line at a 30° angle. The shapes of the first and the second curved surfaces in a normal plane are circular arcs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichirou Okamoto
  • 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: 8250941
    Abstract: A method of designing a gear in which a tooth trace of the tooth flank, which is to be engaged with another mating tooth flank, is curved with respect to an axial direction of the body of the gear. The mating tooth flank of the mating gear is designed in such a manner that a desired tooth contact can be achieved. Accordingly, sufficient design precision can be attained. Furthermore, stress at the tooth flanks can be controlled when the gears are engaged with each other, thereby leading to high durability of the gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Kurauchi
  • Patent number: 8235691
    Abstract: An external gear pump which has a certain flow rate or volumetric capacity at a given speed can be taken apart and the parts rearranged and assembled into a second pump operating at the same speed with a flow rate or volumetric capacity that is different from the original pump. No new parts are required for the second pump configuration and all original parts are used. With this structure, pumps with different flow rates can be built using fewer parts than conventional designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Roper Pump Company
    Inventor: Laney A. Seabolt
  • Patent number: 8225690
    Abstract: A power transmission device is provided with: a first gear having a plurality of teeth that share an identical tooth profile; an intermediate gear that is engaged with the first gear; and a second gear that is engaged with the intermediate gear, and has a plurality of teeth that share an identical tooth profile, wherein the first gear and the second gear have an identical number of teeth, an identical reference diameter, and an identical reference pitch; and the tooth profile of the first gear is different from that of the second gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Shimada, Katsuya Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8225691
    Abstract: A gear pair includes a small-diameter conical involute gear having a conical angle, and a large-diameter conical involute gear having a conical angle. The small-diameter conical involute gear and the large-diameter conical involute gear are constituted by an aggregate of imaginary cylindrical gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Tsune Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8201471
    Abstract: In a gear (G1) according to the present invention, which is provided with a plurality of teeth (1) to be mated with teeth of a mating gear to thereby transmit a rotational motion, a predetermined region (A) in at least one tooth flank (7) of each tooth (1) is formed in a configuration such that, from at least one place in a tooth width direction on a crossing (8) of the tooth flank (7) and a tooth tip surface (3), the mating with the teeth of the mating gear is started with the point contact or the line contact shorter than the total tooth width, and thereafter, is gradually shifted to the line contact so that the length of contact line (10) thereof is sequentially increased as the line contact moves from a tooth tip surface (3) side toward a tooth root side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Ohmi, Yasutaka Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20120118093
    Abstract: A functional portion of an edge of each tooth of the toothed wheel has a profile which complies with the parametric double formula (in Cartesian coordinates): x ? ( u ) = R 1 ? [ cos ? ( 1 ? ? ln ? ( 1 - ? ? ? u ) ) - u ? ? sin ? ( 1 ? ? ln ? ( 1 - ? ? ? u ) ) ] y ? ( u ) = R 1 ? [ sin ? ( 1 ? ? ln ? ( 1 - ? ? ? u ) ) + u ? ? cos ? ( 1 ? ? ln ? ( 1 - ? ? ? u ) ) ] where R1=d1 cos(??atan ?), ? and d1 being parameters, where ? is a parameter which corresponds to the coefficient of friction at the contact between said edge and an edge of a tooth of another wheel, ? being able to take values between 0.05 and 0.5, and where u is a variable which varies in the interval (0, 1/?) such that by varying u, the profile is passed through.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: ETA SA MANUFACTURE HORLOGERE SUISSE
    Inventor: Jean-Luc HELFER
  • Patent number: 8132480
    Abstract: A pump gear includes a pump gear body having involute teeth that each have an involute surface that extends between a tooth tip and a tooth base. The involute surface includes at least reference points A-D, with reference point A near the base, reference point D near the tip, reference point B between reference points A and D, and reference point C between reference points B and D. The reference points A-D have associated respective roll angles, ?A-D, between a corresponding first line that is perpendicular to the involute surface at the given reference point A-D, and a second line that is tangent at a reference point that lies on a terminal end of the involute surface at the tooth base to a reference base circle having a center origin at the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Edward C. Allen, Andrew P. Grosskopf, Brady A. Manogue, Eric A. Brust
  • Publication number: 20120036955
    Abstract: A gear for driving a linear member comprising a tooth tip, a tooth base, a contact face disposed between the tooth tip and the tooth base, the contact face having the shape, X=L sin(???) and Y=L cos(???), where tan(?)=(B/2+2??/360) /R, L=(R{circumflex over (0)}2+(B/2+2??/360/R){circumflex over (0)}2){circumflex over (0)}0.5, B=width of tooth base, R=pitch radius, ?=relative angle of gear tooth to contacting member, a linear member comprising a plurality of holes, and the contact face engagable with the linear member through a hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventor: Michael Gogola
  • Patent number: 8100028
    Abstract: A Cornu's spiral is applied to a tooth profile of a gear. In accordance with the application of the gear, the Cornu's spiral may be modified two-dimensionally by some constant proportion. Since Cornu's spirals have similarity are similar, when a pressure angle is determined, the tooth profile can be standardized by a module, so that it is highly versatile. By replacing the tip of a tooth and the bottom of a tooth by another curve, such as an arc, the range of application can be increased. Since working is always by flank contact between a protrusion and a recess, contact surface stress is low. In addition, the radius of curvature of a dedendum is large. Therefore, tooth bending stress is low, and fatigue strength is high. Even if the number of teeth is small, an undercut is not produced. Even if there is no backlash, a smooth working is achieved, so that the tooth profile is suitable for devices requiring precise alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Inventors: Tsutomu Miyaoku, Jiro Kanehiro, Hidekazu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8061229
    Abstract: The inventive gear drive comprises toothed wheels with teeth of toothed crowns interacting with single- or multi-flow elements. Working profiles of the interacting teeth comprise piecewise and/or pointwise conjugate, convex at a tooth point and concave at a tooth root arc-shaped sections continuously connectable to each other or to involute sections. The interacting toothed crowns are so embodied that a phase gap of the face tooth intermating at a discrete angle from a point, where the interaction of profiles ends at a point, where the interaction of the face profiles of the next tooth pair starts. The drive is so embodied that the face tooth overlap ratio thereof is less than 1. The so improved teeth provide for high level of the contact tightness and absence of axial forces at engagement, increase the structural flexibility of the gear drive teeth in order to improve their qualities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: German Alexandrovich Zhuravlev
  • Patent number: 8051738
    Abstract: A rotor gear includes a rotor gear body having involute teeth that each have an involute surface that extends between a tooth tip and a tooth base. The involute surface includes at least reference points A-D, with reference point A near the base, reference point D near the tip, reference point B between reference points A and D, and reference point C between reference points B and D. The reference points A-D have associated respective roll angles, ?A-D, between a corresponding first line that is perpendicular to the involute surface at the given reference point A-D and a second line that is tangent at a reference point that lies on a terminal end of the involute surface at the tooth base to a reference base circle having a center origin at the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Eric A. Brust, Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8020464
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a gear pair for power transmission in a speed increaser or reducer and its tooth profile forming method. The tooth profiles of driving gear and driven gear are separately designed from reference points. The upper tooth profiles are composed of conjugate curves, while the lower tooth profiles are composed of smooth convex analytic curves. The reference point of the driven gear is located adjacent the middle of the working depth. The reference point on the tooth profile of the driving gear and the reference point on the driven gear tooth flank are a pair of conjugate points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Inventors: Hong Jiang, Xiaochun Wang
  • Patent number: 7926380
    Abstract: A resin gear has a plurality of teeth on an outer periphery thereof. One surface of each tooth has a tooth plane which meshes with another gear. The tooth thickness is substantially uniform from a tooth tip to a tooth root. A reinforcing rib is provided on the surface of each tooth on the opposite side from the tooth plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fujimaru
  • Patent number: 7926379
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gear pair consisting of a crown gear (1) and of a pinion gear (2) provided in the form of a spur gear with an axis crossing angle of 90°. According to the invention, the teeth (3) of the pinion gear (2), in order to reduce an undercut of the teeth (5) of the crown gear (1), have a pressure angle, which increases from the outside inward in a radial direction with regard to the crown gear (1), or in the event of a constant pressure angle, have a profile offset, which decreases from the outside inward in a radial direction with regard to the crown gear (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Prazisionsschmiede GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Gutmann, Heinrich Stettinger, Frank Zerling
  • Patent number: 7926381
    Abstract: A gear set for a generator includes a first gear having a first set of involute teeth and a second gear having a second set of involute teeth circumferentially located about a center axis of rotation. Each set of involute teeth includes respective roll angles, ?A-D. For a diametrically smaller one of the first gear and the second gear the roll angle ?A is 1.51°-3.51°, the roll angle ?B is 7.64°-9.64°, the roll angle ?C is 26.03°-28.03°, and the roll angle ?D is 32.16°-34.16°, and for a diametrically larger one of the first gear and the second gear the roll angle ?A is 15.02°-17.02°, the roll angle ?B is 16.7°-18.7°, the roll angle ?C is 21.73°-23.73°, and the roll angle ?D is 23.41°-25.41°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew P. Grosskopf, Eric A. Brust