Papers by Keyword: Gear Honing

Abstract: The gear honing is the most economical way for hard finishing an involute helical gear after hobbing and heat treatment or after shaving and heat treatment. The gear honing can also be applied to the modification of gear tooth surfaces to compensate for the distortions that occur during heat treatment process. Most published papers on the technology of gear honing describes on the principle of generated gear surface. However, the longitudinal tooth flank crowning of a helical gear with honing has not been investigated yet. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed a novel method for longitudinal tooth flank crowning of work gear surfaces by setting a crossed angle between the honing cutter and work gear axes as a linear function of honing cutter's traverse feed in the honing process. A mathematical model for the tooth profile of work gear honed by a standard honing cutter is also established. Three numeral examples are presented to illustrate and verify the merits of the proposed gear honing method in longitudinal crowning.

Abstract: The gear honing process is a widely used process for gear finishing after heat-treated. The honing ring is profiled by diamond dressing gear, which have the profile of the workpiece to be machined and bonded a single layer of diamond particles. The paper has inroduced the traditional manufacturing methods of diamond dressing gears, positive electroplating and negative electroplating. Then put forward a new manufacturing method, Electroless nickel coating. Composition and condition of electroless composite plating solution, process steps are given. Several diamond dressing gears are made by this new method. Honing experiment testified that it is an applied method and has many advantages.

Abstract: Gear honing with globoid honing worms is seldom used because it has no distinct advantages to honing with internal geared honing rings. The paper puts forward a new process to honing gear with globoid honing worms on hobbing machines. First the globoid honing worm is profiled by diamond dressing gears, which has the same geometric parameters with the machined gears. Then the profiled globoid honing worm is used to hone workpieces. Both the profiling process and honing process are implemented on same hobbing machines. Meshing and Tooth contact analysis of globoid honing worm profiling has been considered. Meshing equation of profiling process and equation of globoid honing worm tooth flank after profiling are obtained. Experiment testified that it is an applied process and has many advantages.

Abstract: The gear honing process is a widely used process for gear finishing after heat-treated, and may be divided into the variants “internal-tooth honing” and “external-tooth honing”. External- tooth honing is seldom used in gear finishing due to lower overlapping ratio and relatively low precision. But its process cost is much lower than internal-tooth honing and gear grinding. The paper puts forward a new method to improve the precision of external-tooth honing, i.e. honing ring is profiled by diamond dressing gears, which have the profile of the workpiece to be machined. Meshing and Tooth contact analysis of honing ring profiling has been considered. Meshing equation of profiling process and equation of honing ring tooth flank after profiling are obtained. Experiment testified that it is an applied method and has many advantages.

Abstract: Ultrasonic vibration can reduce honing forces efficiently. As the honing wheel can be washed by ultrasonic cavitations of cooling liquid, its jams are decreased and the higher honing efficiency has obtained. Therefore, the combination of ultrasonic machining and gear honing is a method for gear fine machining with its wide application future. In the paper, to improve the rigidity, the ultrasonic vibration system adopted the structure of double supports as traditional honing machine, so the horn is symmetric. The machined gear was simplified into a circular thin plate with diameter of its reference circle and the horn was treated as its half as the symmetry; the frequency equations of the transformer were derived according to stress match under the condition that the half horn and plate of the transformer were considered at the same time; the frequency equations were derived based on the boundary conditions. Then the design parameters of the transformer were obtained as the frequency equation was solved computationally and expanded to the whole horn. The displacement, stress of the transformer was solved, too. Finally, the vibration mode of the transformer was analyzed by ANSYS. The results of theoretical and ANSYS analysis is consistent, which means the theoretical model and analysis method are correct.

Abstract: Ultrasonic vibration can reduce honing forces efficiently. As the honing wheel can be washed by ultrasonic cavitations of cutting fluids, its jams are decreased and the higher honing efficiency has been obtained. Therefore, gear honing combined with ultrasonic machining honing is a method for gear finish machining with its wide application future. Ultrasonic-assisted honing of gears is firstly proposed, its machining devices are manufactured based upon the design parameters derived by four-terminal network principle. Experiments of gear honing show that the machining traces on the tooth flanks in ultrasonic and traditional honing are different. The ultrasonic honing can produce a better tooth surface roughness (Ra 0.45 μm) than one obtained conventional honing (Ra 0.72 μm).

Abstract: This paper analyses the material removal and surface forming mechanism of ultrasonic auxiliary gear honing. According to the Huygens principle of diffraction, a theory is proposed firstly that the ultrasonic waves transmit through the being honed gear in toroidal form, and the mathematical equation of the abrasive trace is built that expresses the relative movement between CBN abrasive and the gear surface. The equation is accordant with the experimental result. The paper concludes that the material removal of the gear surface depends on two factors, one is that CBN abrasives scratch the gear surface, and the other is that the gear surface vibrating itself along its normal direction impacts the abrasives.

Abstract: Ultrasonic vibration can reduce honing forces efficiently. As the honing wheel can be washed by ultrasonic cavitations of cooling liquid, its jams are decreased and the higher honing efficiency has obtained. Therefore, the combination of ultrasonic machining and gear honing is a method for gear fine machining with its wide application future. However, the gears with big diameter and thickness machined by ultrasonic honing are special loads, which influence the machining frequency of vibration system heavily. Hence, the horn and gear must be considered at the same time while designing the vibration system. In this paper, the frequency equations are derived according to stress match, wherein, the gear is considered as a thin disc and catenary horn is adopted. Then the influences of vibration of transformer that consists of horn and gear are investigated with the variety of the horn length and the machining frequency. The theoretical analysis shows that the resonance frequency of the horn and detune frequency of transformer have the different value. The results are proved by FEM, too.