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US 12,097,566 B2Granted
Method of manufacturing a toothed bevel honing tool for honing a toothed bevel workpiece, a toothed bevel honing tool and method of honing bevel gears
AssigneeThe Gleason Works
InventorHermann J. Stadtfeld
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Abstract
A method for producing honing tools (24) that are conjugate to the bevel pinions and ring gears (26) they are intended to hone and which can be produced (e.g. cut) on a standard bevel gear free form machine. The method is described by two transformation steps with the basis of the transformations being the theoretical generating gear. The invention relates also to a toothed bevel honing tool produced by such a method and a method of honing bevel gears when provided with such a tool produced by such a method.
Claims8
A method of manufacturing a toothed bevel honing tool for honing a toothed bevel workpiece, said method comprising:
- defining cutting machine setup parameters for producing said toothed bevel workpiece with a cutter wherein said cutter comprises a plurality of cutting blades with each cutting blade having a cutting blade profile, said setup parameters comprising defining a first generating gear setup comprising a generating gear setup and cutter geometry for said toothed bevel workpiece,
- carrying out a first transformation whereby said first generating gear setup is transformed to a second generating gear setup comprising a generating gear setup and cutter geometry for producing cutting teeth on a generating gear for said toothed bevel honing tool,
- carrying out a second transformation whereby said second generating gear setup is transformed to a third generating gear setup comprising a generating gear setup and cutter geometry for producing teeth on said toothed bevel honing tool whereby said toothed bevel honing tool will be conjugate to said toothed bevel workpiece,
- machining a bevel honing tool blank to produce a toothed bevel honing tool blank, said machining being in accordance with said third generating gear setup and cutter geometry for producing teeth on said toothed bevel honing tool,
- applying an abrasive coating to the teeth of said toothed bevel honing tool blank to produce said toothed bevel honing tool.
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