Hypoid gears with low shaft angles
AssigneeThe Gleason Works
InventorHermann J. Stadtfeld
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Abstract
Disclosed is a gear pair set comprising low shaft angle and offset bevel gears and a method for their manufacture including determination of the appropriate gear and pinion blanks and the basic machine settings for their manufacture. The pair of bevel gears comprises a first member and a second member wherein the members of the pair have a shaft angle in the range of greater than 0° to 30°, preferably greater than 0° to 20°, and have an offset in the range of greater than zero to the sum of half the mean pitch diameters of the two members of the bevel gear pair.
Claims13
A bevel gear pair comprising a first bevel gear member and a second bevel gear member, said bevel gear pair further comprising:
- a shaft angle between said first and second members being in the range of greater than zero degrees to 30 degrees, and,
- a hypoid offset between said first and second members being in the range of greater than zero to the sum of half the mean pitch diameters of said first and second members.
A bevel gear pair comprising a first bevel gear member and a second bevel gear member, said bevel gear pair further comprising:
- a shaft angle between said first and second members being in the range of greater than zero degrees to 30 degrees,
- a hypoid offset between said first and second members being in the range of zero to the sum of half the mean pitch diameters of said first and second members,
- wherein said first member and second member each have parallel tooth depth and wherein at least one of said first member and second member is a generated member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.