Gear Manufacturer Techniques

Gear rolling is the most commonly used gear processing method in industrial production at present. Its core principle is to simulate the meshing process of intermeshing shafts with inclined gears. The gear rolling cutter is equivalent to a gear with a very small number of teeth and a very large helix angle. Through the rotation of the gear rolling cutter and the involute generation movement of the blank, combined with axial feed, the required tooth shape can be cut.

The processing principle of gear shaping is to simulate the meshing of parallel-axis cylindrical gears. The shaping cutter itself is a hardened gear, and through the reciprocating cutting motion and the involute generation movement with the blank, the tooth shape is processed. Its most significant feature is that it can process gear types that are difficult for gear rolling to reach.

Shaving is an important finishing process before gear heat treatment. Its processing principle is to use the free meshing between the shaving cutter and the workpiece, through the relative sliding of the two, to remove the small residual material on the tooth surface of the workpiece. Shaving does not require complex cutting motions and has a relatively simple equipment structure.

Grinding is an important finishing process after gear heat treatment, specifically used for processing hard tooth surfaces of quenched gears. Its processing principle is similar to shaving, using a grinding wheel to freely mesh with the workpiece, through the abrasive cutting action of the grinding wheel, to correct the deformation of the gear after heat treatment.

Grinding is the most precise processing method in gear processing, also used for the fine processing of hard tooth surface gears after heat treatment. Its processing principle is to use a grinding wheel as a tool, through the involute generation movement to perform grinding processing on the gear tooth surface.