# US 5,707,310 A · Internal planetary gear device

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- Number: US 5,707,310 A
- Document ID: US5707310A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/398,673
- Filed: 1995-03-06
- Granted: 1998-01-13
- Earliest claimed: 1994-03-08
- Assignees: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Inventors: Yuji Maeguchi; Hideaki Harada
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5707310A

## CPC

- F16H 1/32: in which the central axis of the gearing lies inside the periphery of an orbital gear
- F16H: GEARING

## Abstract

An internal planetary gear device having an input shaft, an eccentric body rotating with the rotation of the input shaft, an external gear eccentrically rotatably mounted on the eccentric body through a bearing, an internal gear internally meshing with the external gear, and an output shaft connected to the external gear through a device for taking up only components of rotation of the external gear, wherein, each component is manufactured of resin, and one of the internal teeth of the internal gear and the external teeth of the external gear is formed into a tooth profile including an inner envelope configuration of curtate epitrochoid theoretical curve C, while the other, into a convex circular tooth profile.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An internal planetary gear device, which comprises a first shaft, an eccentric body mounted on said first shaft, an external gear eccentrically and rotatably mounted through the eccentric body, an internal gear internally meshing with said external gear, means for taking up only components of rotation of said external gear, and a second shaft connected to the external gear through the means for transmitting only components of rotation of the external gear; wherein
said gear device is made of resin, and said internal gear is formed with a convex circular tooth profile, while said external gear is formed with a tooth profile including an inner envelope configuration of a curtate epitrochoid theoretical curve.

### Claim 2

An internal planetary gear device, which comprises a first shaft, an eccentric body mounted on said first shaft, an external gear eccentrically and rotatably mounted through the eccentric body, an internal gear internally meshing with said external gear, means for taking up only components of rotation of said external gear, and a second shaft connected to the external gear through the means for transmitting only components of rotation of the external gear; wherein
said gear device is made of resin, and said external gear is formed with a convex circular tooth profile, while said internal gear is formed with a tooth profile including an inner envelope configuration of a curtate epitrochoid theoretical curve.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

An internal planetary gear device according to claim 1, wherein, at least said external gear having the tooth profile including said inner envelope configuration of the curtate epitrochoid theoretical curve is molded, together with the tooth profile, by an injection molding process.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

An internal planetary gear device according to claim 2, wherein, at least said internal gear having the tooth profile including said inner envelope configuration of the curtate epitrochoid theoretical curve is molded, together with the tooth profile, by an injection molding process.