Method and apparatus for deburring gear wheels

A method comprising the following steps:

• rotationally driving a deburring brush about a spindle axis, wherein the deburring brush comprises at least N=1 brush bundles, each of which define an angular range of less than 360°;
• rotationally driving a gear wheel about a workpiece spindle axis in a coupled manner with said rotationally driving the deburring brush using a coupling transmission ratio;
• and
• deburring in a continuous method the gear wheel using the deburring brush, including the steps of:
• executing a relative flight movement of the at least N=1 brush bundles relative to the gear wheel, wherein the relative flight movement is defined by a hypocycloid or an epicycloid;
• and
• removing a burr from at least one tooth edge of a tooth gap of the gear wheel by contacting the at least N=1 brush bundles with the at least one tooth edge;
• wherein the gear wheel defines a number of teeth which define a number of tooth gaps therebetween, and wherein the coupling transmission ration is defined by the number of teeth or the number of tooth gaps and the number of the at least N=1 brush bundles.