Gear system
AssigneeSumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsTakao Shigemi, Tetsushi Isozaki
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Abstract
The gear system has a lubricant A put into an inner part of an oil seal provided around an input shaft, and a lubricant B put into an inner part of the reducer (gear system) which mainly lubricates a reducer portion. The characteristics of these lubricants A and B are set in such a manner that a base oil viscosity of the lubricant A is smaller than that of the latter lubricant B and a cone penetration of the lubricant A is larger than that of the lubricant B.
Claims7
A gear system comprising:
- an input shaft;
- a transmission unit that changes a speed of rotation of the input shaft;
- an output shaft that outputs the rotation having the changed speed;
- and
- an oil seal portion provided around the input shaft, wherein;
- a base oil viscosity of a lubricant in the oil seal portion is smaller than that of a lubricant in the transmission unit;
- and
- a cone penetration of the lubricant in the oil seal portion is larger than that of the lubricant in the transmission unit.
A method of running a gear system, the gear system comprising an input shaft, a transmission unit that changes a speed of rotation of the input shaft, an output shaft that outputs the rotation having the changed speed, and an oil seal portion provided around the input shaft, the method comprising steps of:
- maintaining a first condition in which a base oil viscosity of a lubricant in the oil seal portion is smaller than that of a lubricant in the transmission unit;
- maintaining a second condition in which a cone penetration of the lubricant in the oil seal portion is larger than that of the lubricant in the transmission unit;
- and
- running the gear system under both the first and second conditions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.