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US 10,092,995 B2Granted
Method of grinding gears
AssigneeThe Gleason Works
InventorsUwe Gaiser, Eric G. Mundt
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Abstract
A method of grinding the tooth slots of a workpiece with a freshly dressed grinding wheel wherein dual-machining of tooth slots is eliminated. The method comprises grinding the first few slots of a gear at a corrected depth amount which accounts for the rapid wear and other conditions of the freshly dressed grinding wheel wherein for a first number of tooth slots (e.g. 1, 2, 3 or more), the grinding wheel is fed-in relative to the workpiece by the corrected depth amount.
Claims10
A method of grinding a gear with a freshly-dressed grinding wheel, said gear having a plurality of tooth slots, said method comprising:
- grinding each of said plurality of tooth slots,
- wherein for an initial number of said plurality of tooth slots ground, inclusive of a first slot ground, the grinding wheel is fed into each of said tooth slots of said initial number by a respective correction amount so as to compensate for material removal effects of said grinding wheel due to said grinding wheel being freshly-dressed,
- wherein none of said plurality of tooth slots are reground.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.