Gear driven mechanical assembly test procedure
AssigneeVisteon Global Technologies, Inc.
InventorsGary E. Kopp, Gregory Paul Kopp, Peter Jacobsen
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Abstract
A method of collecting test data for a gear set includes loading the gear set to a testing device having a first motor which is an input drive motor and a second motor which is an output drag motor, establishing a set-point torque value, running the drive motor at a fixed speed, measuring the output torque at the drag motor, comparing the output torque to the set-point torque, adjusting the input torque, repeating the steps of measuring the output torque at the second motor, comparing the output torque to the set-point torque, and adjusting the input torque until the output torque matches the set-point torque value, and collecting test data.
Claims9
A method of collecting test data for a gear set including:
- loading the gear set to a testing device having a first motor which is an input drive motor and a second motor which is an output drag motor;
- establishing a set-point torque value;
- powering the drive motor at a substantially constant rotational speed to supply an input torque to the gearset;
- measuring the output torque at the drag motor;
- comparing the output torque to the set-point torque;
- adjusting the input torque until the measured output torque substantially equals the set-point torque value, while keeping the rotational speed of both the drive and drag motors substantially constant;
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- collecting test data.
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