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Manufacturing of half-crowned gear drives for motion quality improvement

US6289586A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 17, 2000
Grant dateSep 18, 2001
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Expiry dateMar 17, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T74/19972
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Manufacturing a drive system with a mating gear set with substantially reduced gear axis misalignment drive motion non-uniformity error with half-crowned gear teeth, crowned on only one side, to allow for simple and low cost gear molding, but with the mating gears mounted to oppositely mesh their respectively half-crowned sides. The amount of crowning may be in the range of approximately 75-100 microns.

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