Method for manufacturing hypoid gear
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsYoshihito Noguchi, Ryo Takatsu, Isamu Ueda, Takeo Bandou, Nobuyuki Oka
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing a hypoid gear includes: a tooth cutting step of machining a shape of a tooth of the hypoid gear; a surface treatment step of forming a third intermediary gear provided with a hardened layer on a surface of the tooth; a lapping step of machining the third intermediary gear using an abrasive particle having a diameter of 14 μm or less to form a fourth intermediary gear; and a shot peening step of spraying a particle having a diameter of 160 μm or less onto the fourth intermediary gear.
Claims19
A method for manufacturing a hypoid gear, the method comprising:
- a tooth cutting step of machining a shape of a tooth of the hypoid gear;
- a surface treatment step of forming a first intermediary body provided with a hardened layer on a surface of the tooth;
- a lapping step of machining the first intermediary body using an abrasive particle having a diameter of 14 μm or less to form a second intermediary body;
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- a shot peening step of spraying a particle having a diameter of 160 μm or less onto the second intermediary body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.