Invention of the gear-hobbing process about 150 years ago revolutionized not only gear fabrication, but also gear design. Basically, a hob or shaper cutter traverses the gear blank to generate teeth.
JTEKT has been granted a patent for a gear machining apparatus that includes a hob cutter, at least one processor, and at least one memory with instructions. The apparatus performs operations such as ...
The most common failures in high-performance gears are gear-tooth fractures. They often stem from fatigue cracks that start at the root of the tooth. Repeated bending loads widen the crack across the ...