Composite gear assembly and method of making same
AssigneeCornerstone Research Group, Inc.
InventorsEthan Steinmetz, Ben Dietsch, Gray Fowler, Jason Hermiller
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Abstract
A composite hybrid gear assembly includes a gear hub formed from a composite material and a gear head assembly. The gear hub includes a shaft region having an axially symmetrical external profile and a hub web region having a flared profile extending from the shaft region. The gear head assembly includes a head web region and a teeth region where the gear head assembly is fixed to the gear hub. Additionally, the composite hybrid gear assembly includes a first sleeve fixed to an external surface of the shaft region. An associated method of making a composite hybrid gear assembly is also provided.
Claims19
A composite hybrid gear assembly comprising:
- a gear hub formed from a composite material, the gear hub comprising a shaft region having an axially symmetrical external profile and a hub web region having a flared profile extending from the shaft region;
- a gear head assembly comprising a head web region and a teeth region, the gear head assembly fixed to the gear hub, where the head web region of the gear head assembly is fixed to a surface of the hub web region of the gear hub contiguous with an internal surface of the shaft region;
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- a first sleeve fixed to an external surface of the shaft region of the gear hub;
- where the first sleeve and the gear head assembly are formed from a metallic material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.