Abstract: One variation of a method includes: accessing a maximum deflection distance of a workpiece; defining a first workpiece region characterized by a first compliance range; defining a second workpiece region characterized by a second compliance range greater than the first compliance range; assigning a nominal target force to the workpiece; navigating a sanding head across the first workpiece region during a processing cycle; driving the sanding head below a virtual unloaded surface of the workpiece stored in the virtual model to maintain forces, of the sanding head on the first workpiece region, approximating the nominal target force; calculating a maximum offset between the positions of the sanding head in the first workpiece region and the virtual unloaded surface; and, in response to the first maximum offset approaching the maximum deflection distance, assigning a lower target force to the second workpiece region of the workpiece.

Abstract: A rolling device for work pieces with toothing, in particular gear wheels, includes first and second shaping tools which are guided by a guide relative to the work pieces. With respect to the work pieces, a first region of a tooth flank is shaped with the first shaping tool and a second region of the tooth flank is shaped by the second shaping tool. The first and second shaping tools are respectively mounted on first and second rollers. The second roller has an axial thickness on the circumference, which differs from the axial thickness of the first roller such that the second region of the tooth flank is different from the first region.

Abstract: A robot arm comprising a first arm segment and a second arm segment coupled to each other by a first revolute joint having a first rotation axis and a second revolute joint having a second rotation axis non-parallel to the first rotation axis, and a joint mechanism for articulating the first arm segment relative to the second arm segment about the first and second rotation axes, the joint mechanism comprising: a first driven gear disposed about an axle coincident with the first rotation axis, the axle being fast with a first arm segment of the robot arm; a second driven gear disposed about the second rotation axis and fast with a second arm segment of the robot arm and fast with the first driven gear about the first rotation axis; a first drive gear configured to drive the first driven gear to rotate about the axle, the first drive gear being arranged to engage the first driven gear; a second drive gear for driving the second driven gear to rotate about the second rotation axis; and an intermediary gear arran

Abstract: A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing is operationally coupled to the shift actuator and a linear clutch actuator. The linear clutch actuator is a self-adjusting actuator, and the transmission includes a self-adjusting clutch.

Abstract: Loopback rolls which can transfer and guide a polishing tape (T) along a perimeter of a pressure contact roll (R) is provided, the pressure contact roll having a tapered peripheral edge having a top edge and a pair of slant edge faces formed on a periphery of the pressure contact roll, by which the polishing tape can be bent into a substantially V-shape in cross section, and a switchable pressure contact mechanism is switchably provided which pressure contacts each of bent portions of the polishing tape, which is bent into the substantially V-shape in cross section by the tapered peripheral edge, to one tooth face (B1) or the other tooth face of a worm.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gear drive for a seat adjuster assembly may include applying a cutting process to a worm gear blank to cut gear teeth into the worm gear blank and form a single-enveloping worm gear; forming a worm with a helical thread that includes a pitch surface that is configured to mesh with the gear teeth of the single-enveloping worm gear. A longitudinal crown is created on the pitch surface of the helical thread of the worm such that the pitch surface has an arcuate profile moving from a proximal end of the worm to a distal end of the worm. In addition, a crowned tooth profile is created on the helical thread of the worm that extends in an angular direction between a top land and a bottom land of the helical thread. The crowned tooth profile bows outwardly along a convex curve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a removal of material on a tooth end edge of a workpiece toothing with a rotationally driven chamfering tool in a machining operation brought about by controlled axial machine movements between the chamfering tool and the likewise rotationally driven workpiece toothing, wherein material is removed with a geometrically undefined cutting edge and the removal takes place in a coordinated action between a profiling, in particular, an alterable profiling, of the chamfering tool and a machine control used for the machining operation, performed in dependence on predetermined parameters that are characteristic of the removal of material to be produced.

Abstract: A mutual-lapping device and mutual-lapping method for improving processing precision based on the principle of error averaging is proposed. The device including driving friction wheel, driving belt pulley, transmission belt A, connecting rod A, rotation shaft segment A, multi-ball sleeve, mutual-lapping gear A, tension spring, driven friction wheel, pendulum bar of the driven friction wheel, driven belt pulley, transmission belt B, connecting rod B, pressure spring of tensioning pulley, tensioner mechanism, rotation shaft segment B and mutual-lapping gear B. By mutual lapping the high-precision gears, not only the pitch deviation, tooth profile deviation, helix deviation and runout can be reduced synchronously, but also the machining cost is low. Meanwhile, the effect of improving pitch accuracy, profile accuracy, helix accuracy and runout accuracy and reducing surface roughness is remarkable.

Abstract: A method for forming an assembly having a housing and first and second components. The first and second components are movable relative to one another in the housing. The method includes: providing first and second workpieces; moving the first and second workpieces relative to one another in a predetermined manner that produces relative sliding contact between the first and second workpieces while performing a superfinishing operation on the first and second workpieces to form the first and second components, respectively, wherein the superfinishing operation does not comprise a lapping operation; and mounting the first and second components in the housing such that the first and second components are engaged to one another and are movable relative to one another in the predetermined manner.

Abstract: A method for machining toothed and hardened work wheels, includes: mounting a work wheel that is hardened and pre-toothed with an allowance onto a workpiece spindle; removing at least 50% of the allowance by means of gear skiving with a skiving wheel that is rotatably driven by a tool spindle; precision-machining the work wheel in unchanged tension by means of a honing wheel. The forward movement occurs during gear skiving in the extension direction of the toothing. The delivery of the workpiece that is moved in an oscillating manner in the extension direction of the toothing occurs during honing in the radial direction. The skiving wheel and the honing wheel are driven by a common tool spindle. A device for carrying out the method includes a workpiece spindle, which is driven to rotate, and a tool spindle, which carries a combination tool having a skiving wheel and a honing wheel.

Abstract: A live tool system having a live tool and a collar surrounding a rotating shaft or a rotating cutting tool of the live tool. The collar houses at least one sensor capable of monitoring an operating condition proximate to the cutting tool during a cutting operation. Example operating conditions including temperature and vibration. The system also includes a wireless transmitter in communication with the at least one sensor for transmitting a signal for use by a machining center controller.

Abstract: Provided are a gear machining apparatus and a gear machining method with which the surface roughness, in a tooth profile evaluation range, of the surfaces of the teeth of a gear can be improved. This gear machining apparatus (1) machines shapes a gear (4) by machining a workpiece (4) with a grinding wheel, and comprises: a threaded grinding wheel (32) that shapes a gear (4) by machining a workpiece (4); and a disc-shaped dresser (36) that shapes the threaded grinding wheel (32) while rotating with the threaded grinding wheel (32) in a meshed state. A pressure angle (a) of the dresser (36) is designed to be dislocated such that a reference pitch circle diameter (PCD) of the gear (4) shaped by the threaded grinding wheel (32) is outside the tooth profile evaluation range of a tooth surface (5).

Abstract: An actuator assembly for an electromechanical parking brake greatly reduces vibration and noise of the actuator so that a high-quality vehicle may be realized by removing one of factors causing vibration and noise in the vehicle and greatly improves the easiness of assembly and handling together with attenuating vibration and noise by maximizing the excellent vibration and noise attenuating function by means of modularization which allows the actuator assembly to be handled as a single element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for hard-fine machining of tooth flanks with corrections and/or modifications on a gear-cutting machine, wherein respective toothed wheel pairings which mesh with one another within a transmission or a test device are machined while taking account of the respective mating flanks, and wherein the tooth flanks of the relevant workpieces are provided with periodic waviness corrections or waviness modifications. In accordance with the invention, the rotational error extent is determined by means of rotational distance error measurement of the toothed wheel pairs in a gear measuring device and/or transmission. This measurement result serves as an input value for defining the amplitude, frequency and phase position for the periodic flank waviness corrections on the tooth flanks of the toothed wheel pairings for production in the gear-cutting machine.

Abstract: A machine for making gears. The machine comprises a piece-holder unit and an operating unit equipped with an operating head provided with at least one tool for machining a piece. Moreover, one piece-holder unit and the operating unit are provided with relative motion with respect to each another in a direction. The machine is characterized in that the operating unit is suitable to move, in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction, and in that the tool is mounted on a slide provided with a tangential motion defined by a direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for machining a workpiece, preferably of a gear, with a multiple thread worm-shaped cutting tool with several parallel running helical and ridge-shaped cutting edges. To obtain a higher quality of the machining operation the invention proposes the following steps for the method: a) Bringing the cutting tool with the workpiece into mesh by inserting of a first helical cutting edge of the cutting tool in a first gap of the workpiece which has to be machined or has to be produced and machining of the workpiece with the cutting tool in this contact situation; b) Bringing the cutting tool and the workpiece out of mesh; c) Bringing the cutting tool with the workpiece again into mesh by inserting of the first helical cutting edge of the cutting tool in a second gap of the workpiece which is different from the first gap and machining of the workpiece with the cutting tool.

Abstract: A gear teeth generation method carried out on multi-axis machines, using a disk tool. The tool travels along the gear tooth where its motion along a gap adjacent to the gear tooth is synchronized with the roll motion performed by said multi-axis machine so that the pressure line is on the machining surface of the tool. The tool machines a bottom land surface of the tooth with its perimeter. Machining of the tooth flank starts with the tool positioned such that the pressure line is near a first edge of the tooth flank. Positions of the tool and the tooth are changed to cause the pressure line to move away from the first edge of the tooth flank. Machining is finished when the pressure line reaches the opposite edge of the tool flank. The pressure line is on the machining surface of the tool throughout every stage of machining.

Abstract: A gear shaping machine is provided. The gear shaping machine includes a pair of horizontally reciprocating gear shaping heads mounted to a column. Each gear shaping head includes a spindle assembly including an integral rotary drive for indexing the spindle. The spindle assembly is carried by a spindle slide. The spindle slide also carries a plurality of bearing blocks to allow for sliding movement of the gear shaping head relative to rails mounted on the column. A linear drive arrangement is operably coupled between each gear shaping head and the column. The linear guide arrangement allows for controlled linear translation of each gear shaping head independently of one another. Each gear shaping head also includes a back-off mechanism for independently moving the spindle assembly toward the workpiece during a cutting stroke and away from the workpiece during a return stroke of each gear shaping head.

Abstract: A method of machining bevel gears whereby machining of both flanks of a tooth slot and crowning of the tooth surfaces in the lengthwise direction are realized without an active pivot axis and by a modification of the conventional relationship between the radial and swivel basic settings during gear generating.

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: Method and apparatus for lapping gears which includes an active torque system to substantially improve the lapping process with respect to run-out and other longer-term motion transmission errors without compromising tooth-to-tooth performance. Motion transmission error measurements provide the basis for calculating a corrective active torque component which is combined with conventional process torque to reduce or eliminate part run-out.

Abstract: Provided is a gear grinding method capable of improving processing accuracy and easily adjusting the crowning shape by simplifying a processing operation. To this end, a work piece (W) is ground by a gear-shaped grinding stone (11) having a drum shape such that crowning along a tooth trace direction is applied to the work piece (W) by applying a relative feed in a feed direction (D1) that intersects a work piece rotation axis (C1) at a predetermined first diagonal angle (?1) between the work piece (W) and the gear-shaped grinding stone (11) while the work piece (W) and the gear-shaped grinding stone (11) are synchronously rotated in the state of being engaged so as to have a predetermined crossed axes angle (?), and the curvature in a grinding stone width direction, which defines the drum shape of the gear-shaped grinding stone (11), and the first diagonal angle (?1) are set according to the crowning shape of the work piece (W).

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for dressing a threaded grinding stone for internal gear grinding, by which a threaded grinding stone for grinding an internal gear can be dressed with a high degree of accuracy by using a dressing gear that has been produced with a high degree of accuracy.

Abstract: A gear grinding machine wherein a tooth alignment operation is performed prior to grinding, is equipped with a workpiece processing rotation shaft (22) which rotates a workpiece (W1) located at a workpiece processing position (P2); a workpiece swing device (30) whereby a tailstock (50) that holds the workpiece (W1) is swung between a workpiece replacement position (P1) and a workpiece processing position; a workpiece alignment rotation shaft (52) which rotates the workpiece held by the tailstock (50); and a tooth alignment sensor (43) that detects the rotation phase of the workpiece, which was rotated by the workpiece alignment rotation shaft. Before the workpiece held by the tailstock is placed at the workpiece processing position, the rotation of the workpiece alignment rotation shaft is controlled on the basis of the rotation phase detected, so that the workpiece will engage with a threaded grinding stone (16).

Abstract: A method for polishing a ball screw comprising a screw shaft defining a screw axis. The screw shaft is formed with a screw groove. The method comprises the steps of: rotating the screw shaft at a rotational speed about the screw axis; conveying a polishing tape having a polishing portion traveled around an outer peripheral surface of a pressing roller, the press roller being configured to rotate about a rotational axis; guiding the polishing tape such that the polishing portion is traveled around the outer peripheral surface; pressing the polishing portion against the screw groove; tilting the pressing roller such that the rotational axis is aligned with a lead angle; oscillating the pressing roller linearly along the rotational axis; moving the polishing tape at a moving speed in a direction parallel to the screw axis; and synchronizing the rotational speed with the moving speed based on a lead.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for hard fine machining of a pre-manufactured flank (11) of a gear wheel by a machine having at least five axes controlled in coordination and one additional tool axis (WA). According to the invention, a rotation-symmetrical tool (20.1) is driven on the machine side such that it is set into a rotation (RA) about the tool axis (WA). In addition, the axes controlled in coordination are actuated such that a straight-lined section of the surface line of the tool (20.1) is guided tangentially along the flank (11) in a generating movement while the tool (20.1) removes material on the pre-manufactured flank (11) by means of the rotation (R1) about the tool axis (WA). The generating movement follows pre-specified movement vectors (E).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus as well as to a method for the manufacture or processing of large tooth systems for internal or external teeth or large cogs in small production runs, wherein at least two machining methods are used with the aim of a complete machining of precision-relevant surfaces at these workpieces and while realizing production times which are as short as possible.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting and preventing grind burn from developing on a gear. The method includes performing acoustic emission testing while the gear is being ground during a grinding operation. The grinding wheel is evaluated during an eddy current test to detect material buildup on the grinding wheel which could cause grind burn. In addition, the method includes collecting swarf from the gear during the grinding operation and inspecting the swarf for an indication of grind burn.

Abstract: A device for phasing a threaded grinding stone is phased with respect to a workpiece or a disk dresser prior to the engagement of the threaded grinding stone with the workpiece or with the disk dresser during grinding or dressing. In performing this phasing, it is detected, by means of an AE fluid sensor provided to a grinding stone head which rotatably supports the threaded grinding stone, whether the threaded grinding stone has had contact with the workpiece or the disk dresser. Subsequently, on the basis of the phase of the threaded grinding stone at the time when contact was detected, the threaded grinding stone is positioned in a phase where the aforementioned engagement is feasible.

Abstract: An object is to provide an internal gear grinding machine and a dressing method for a barrel-shaped threaded tool which make it possible to achieve space savings and reduce the size of a machine by simplifying dressing operation. To achieve the object, an internal gear grinding machine for use in grinding a workpiece (W) by synchronously rotating the workpiece (W) and a barrel-shaped threaded grinding wheel (17) in mesh with each other includes a dressing device (20) for dressing the threaded tool (17) by meshing the threaded grinding wheel (17) with a disk dresser (56). At the time of dressing, the threaded grinding wheel (17) and the disc dresser (56) are operated in accordance with the helix angle and the barrel shape of the threaded grinding wheel (17).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing head for processing machines, preferably tooth milling and tooth grinding machines, comprising a direct drive which is arranged in a processing head bed of a processing machine, wherein the direct drive comprises at least two motors actuatable in synchronism with each other.

Abstract: Method for the machining of gear teeth whose tooth flanks deviate from their specified geometry by a machining allowance, wherein the machining allowance is removed through an infeed of at least two infeed steps, each of which is followed by a machining pass with a profiling tool that rotates about a tool axis, wherein for this operation the profiling tool—after it has been set to a position relative to the gear wheel that depends on the angle at which the plane of rotation of the tool which is orthogonal to the tool axis is tilted against the axis of the gear wheel—is brought into engagement with the gear teeth, wherein after each infeed step the material within the resultant engagement area of the tool is removed, wherein after the last infeed step with a tilt angle setting of the profiling tool that is determined by the design angle of the latter, the area of tool engagement extends over the entire flank height, so that the next machining pass will remove the amount of material required to attain the speci

Abstract: A dressing tool produces a plurality of first radial sections in a first flank of a first screw channel in a grinding worm, and a plurality of second radial sections in a second flank of a second screw channel in the grinding worm. Each radial section extends only a portion of a total radial height of the respective flank, the portion being less than the total radial height of the respective flank. Each first radial section in the first screw channel is radially displaced with respect to a corresponding second radial section in the second screw channel.

Abstract: Provided is an internal gear machining method capable of achieving improvement of machining accuracy and extension of the tool life by increasing a slip velocity. For this purpose, internal gear machining is performed on a workpiece (W) by synchronously rotating the workpiece (W) and a barrel-shaped threaded grinding wheel (11) in mesh with each other. The workpiece (W) is rotatable about a workpiece rotation axis (C1), and the barrel-shaped threaded grinding wheel (11) is rotatable about a grinding wheel rotation axis (B1) having a predetermined shaft angle (?) to the workpiece rotation axis (C1). In the internal gear machining method, the shaft angle (?) is set large based on the amount of change in a grinding pitch wheel pitch radius of the threaded grinding wheel (11).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotating body of a magnetic angle detector, wherein the rotating body can be machined and manufactured with high accuracy without generating burrs, a rotating body manufactured by the method, and a magnetic angle detector having the rotating body. A tooth top surface and a tooth surface to be formed on a rotating body are simultaneously machined by one grinding stone. The grinding stone has a tooth top surface grinding part which machines the tooth top surface and a tooth surface grinding part which machines the tooth surface. The grinding stone is configured to simultaneously grind and machine the tooth top surface and the tooth surface by rotational grinding about an axis.

Abstract: A gear grinding machine, whose tool spindle (18) is supported on a first swivel-motion unit (17) seated on a first linear-motion unit (15), has a second linear-motion unit (19) which is arranged on the first linear-motion unit (15) and carries a dressing spindle (21) that is capable of being driven in rotary movement.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of grinding a toothed workpiece in which a central axis of the toothed contour profile is defined, wherein the method encompasses at least two work operations. In a first work operation a grinding zone of a grinding tool whose selection is determined by the grinding process to be performed, which rotates about an axis of rotation and is set up for an infeed in the direction of the shortest distance between said central axis and the rotation axis, is brought into grinding engagement with a tooth flank of the workpiece. In a later, second work operation, the tooth flank is brought into grinding engagement with a grinding zone of a grinding tool whose selection is determined by the grinding process to be performed and which is advanced in the infeed direction of the first operation.

Abstract: Provided is a gear grinding method wherein an initial cutting position by a grindstone is appropriately set, resulting in an improvement being able to be made in machining accuracy. For this purpose, the gear grinding method is such that rotation of a workpiece (W) about a workpiece rotation axis (C), cutting by a grindstone (15) in the X-axis direction, and feeding of the grindstone (15) in the Z-axis direction are controlled, resulting in the workpiece (W) being ground by the grindstone (15).

Abstract: An object is to provide a barrel-shaped threaded tool for machining an internal gear which is capable of machining with high accuracy by appropriately setting a helix angle. To achieve the object, in a threaded grinding wheel (11) formed into a barrel shape having a diameter gradually decreasing from an axially intermediate portion thereof toward axially opposite end portions thereof so that the threaded grinding wheel (11) is meshed with a workpiece (W) with a crossed axes angle (?) therebetween during the machining of the workpiece (W), the helix angle is set in accordance with the length from the axially intermediate portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bonded abrasive article comprising specific shaped abrasive particles and a bonding medium comprising a vitreous bond. The present invention also relates to the use of an article according to the present invention in grinding applications, in particular in high performance grinding applications and to the use of an article according to the present invention for abrading a workpiece material particularly a workpiece material selected from steels, non-ferrous metals, and alloys. In addition, the present invention relates to a method for abrading a workpiece, the method comprising frictionally contacting at least a portion of an abrasive article according to the invention with a surface of a workpiece; and moving at least one of the workpiece or the abrasive article to abrade at least a portion of the surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method of machining the tooth flanks of substantially cylindrical, but crowning-modified gears through a diagonal generating process employing a worm-shaped tool which is modified with a crowning in the direction of its rotary axis, wherein the crowning can be positive or negative (concave crowning), wherein by matching the crowning of the tool to the diagonal ratio, a flank twist is generated by means of the tool and superimposed on the natural flank twist, such that the result of said superposition equals the flank twist required for the work piece.

Abstract: A method and a device for removing secondary burrs raised on the tooth flanks of a work piece wheel by a chamfering of the end tooth edges of said work piece wheel provides a tool wheel that rotationally meshes with the work piece wheel. Said tool wheel has cutting edges on its tooth flanks (5, 6) and their cutting motion, caused by the meshing, removes the secondary burrs by cutting.

Abstract: A spindle for a machine tool comprising a outer spindle portion and an inner spindle portion with each of the outer spindle portion and the inner spindle portion being rotatable relative to one another about the same axis. The outer spindle portion and the inner spindle portion each include a plurality of magnets that are arranged in an opposing manner with respect to one another whereby rotation of one portion of the spindle will induce rotation in the other portion of the spindle due to the attraction force between the magnets.

Abstract: A method of machining gears or other toothed articles wherein the workpiece feed rate and/or the tool shifting is varied so as to produce an irregular surface pattern on tooth surfaces with a resulting reduction in mesh noise. The method is particularly applicable to grinding spur and/or helical gears with a grinding worm.

Abstract: A method for honing a workpiece includes moving the workpiece onto an intermediate retention member which is rotatable about a vertical workpiece axis. Then, the workpiece is brought into a rolling engagement with a teaching wheel. An angular transfer position of the workpiece is established by the rotary sensor of the teaching wheel retention member. Next, the workpiece is transferred from the intermediate retention member onto a workpiece spindle, where the workpiece is retained onto the workpiece spindle. Then, the workpiece goes through a honing process by bringing the workpiece into a synchronized rolling engagement with a honing tool by utilizing the angular transfer position of the workpiece, thereby eliminating a separate centering step of the workpiece.

Abstract: A relative movement trajectory of each convex tooth pin of a mating gear with respect to a concave-convex gear at the time when torque is transmitted between the mating gear and the concave-convex gear (nutation gear) may be expressed by a first linear axis, a second linear axis, a third linear axis, a fourth rotation axis, a fifth rotation axis and a sixth indexing axis. Then, a relative movement trajectory of each convex tooth pin of the mating gear, expressed by the first linear axis, the second linear axis, the third linear axis, the fifth rotation axis and the sixth indexing axis in the case where the fourth rotation axis is brought into coincidence with the sixth indexing axis, is calculated, and at least one of a disc-shaped workpiece and a working tool is moved on the basis of the calculated relative movement trajectory.

Abstract: Provided are: a screw-shaped grindstone for grinding gears that has a simple configuration and is capable of grinding gears with high precision; and a method for grinding gears. The screw-shaped grindstone (20) for grinding gears, which grinds a workpiece (W1) by rotating while meshing with the workpiece (W1), comprises a screw-shaped grindstone (21) that grinds the workpiece (W1), and a screw-shaped grindstone (22) that is linked to the screw-shaped grindstone (21) on the same axis, and grinds the workpiece (W1), which has been ground by the screw-shaped grindstone (21). A plurality of grinding ranges (L1, L2) that are sectioned at prescribed lengths in the width direction of the grindstone are established with respect to the screw-shaped grindstones (21, 22), and each grinding range (L1, L2) of the screw-shaped grindstones (21, 22) serves as the range of use per workpiece (W1).

Abstract: A formed cutter 1 has on its tip side a blade 2 having a spiral cutting part 6 and a spiral flute 8 alternately disposed and rotating around a rotation axis O to perform cutting. The formed cutter 1 is manufactured by forming a depression 6B and a projection 6A with different diameters on a blade forming part 12, forming the spiral flute 8 on the blade forming part 12, and forming a rake face 4 on a side fall of the spiral flute 8 by bringing the grinding tool 18 in line contact with the side wall of the spiral flute 8 along a depth direction of the flute 8 while rotating the grinding tool 18 around its axial center.

Abstract: A device for measuring tooth surface deviation includes a contact detector that measures the deviation at the tooth surface of a dresser with respect to a grinding tooth surface formed on a helical grinding tooth of a grinding tool when the grinding tool and a dresser toothed wheel are rotated synchronously in a state in which the grinding tooth surface and the dresser tooth surface of the dresser toothed wheel can be brought into contact, and detects contact between the grinding tooth surface and the dresser tooth surface; and a controller that changes the speed of rotation of the dresser toothed wheel in such a way that the detection result of the contact detector comes within the range of contact determination data, and also measures the amount by which the grinding tool and the dresser toothed wheel have been changed in one revolution of the dresser toothed wheel.

Abstract: A gear grinding tool, which includes a helical tooth with grinding faces on surfaces thereof, grinds tooth faces of a gear as a workpiece with the grinding faces. The grinding face includes a rough grinding face for performing a rough grinding process. The grinding face includes a rough grinding face for performing a rough grinding process, and the rough grinding face includes a forming line for performing a finishing process.