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US 11,826,842 B2Granted
Independent pressure angle corrections for power skiving
AssigneeThe Gleason Works
InventorHermann J. Stadtfeld
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Abstract
A power skiving method wherein three-dimensional cutter rotations relative to gear workpiece tooth flank surfaces are carried out so as to reposition the cutter relative to a gear workpiece so as to achieve a decrease and/or an increase in the pressure angle of the tooth flank surfaces. The method can be applied independently to left and right flank surfaces of a tooth slot or the rotations may be superimposed on one another to realize pressure angle corrections on both tooth flanks of a tooth slot.
Claims7
A method of machining teeth of a gear workpiece by power skiving, said method comprising:
- providing a cutting tool having a plurality of cutting blades,
- rotating the cutting tool,
- rotating the gear workpiece,
- engaging the cutting tool with the gear workpiece to machine the teeth of the gear workpiece, the teeth each having a respective left tooth flank surface and a respective right tooth flank surface, wherein during the engaging, the cutting tool machines at the same time the left tooth flank surface of a first one of the cutting teeth and the right tooth flank surface of a second one of the cutting teeth, whereby the left tooth flank surface of the first one of the cutting teeth and the right tooth flank surface of the second one of the cutting teeth are machined at the same time by the cutting tool to each have a respective initial pressure angle,
- moving the cutting tool relative to the gear workpiece to effect positioning of the cutting tool around one of:
- a) a profile symmetry line between the left tooth flank surface and the right tooth flank surface of the gear workpiece teeth,
- b) a profile that is tangent to at least one of the left tooth flank surface and the right tooth flank surface of the gear workpiece teeth,
- c) an axis perpendicular to the profile symmetry line between the left tooth flank surface and the right tooth flank surface of the gear workpiece teeth, and
- d) a profile that is normal to at least one of the left tooth flank surface and the right tooth flank surface of the gear workpiece teeth, and
- in moving the cutting tool relative to the gear workpiece to effect positioning of the cutting tool, the cutting tool is repositioned from wherein the engaging occurred, and after having been repositioned, the cutting tool machines at least one of the left tooth flank surface of the first one of the cutting teeth and the right tooth flank surface of the second one of the cutting teeth in order to provide either a decrease or an increase in the initial pressure angle of the at least one of the left tooth flank surface of the first one of the cutting teeth and the right tooth flank surface of the second one of the cutting teeth.
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