A calculation method of tooth profile modification for tooth contact analysis technology
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Abstract
Tooth contact analysis (TCA) technology is an approach for computerized simulation of meshing of aligned and misaligned gear, which has been widely used in the design of gears. In TCA technology, the gear modification is completed by first modifying the cutter and then using the cutter to cut the gear blank. The obtained results are the modification parameters of cutter rather than those of gear. With the rapid development of numerical control technology, directly modifying tooth profile becomes more convenient than modifying cutter to the complete tooth profile modification. However, at present, there is no bridge between TCA technology and tooth profile direct modification. Therefore, a calculation method of tooth profile modification for TCA technology is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the simulation process of machining gear by standard rack cutter is introduced. The profile equation and coordinates for standard gear tooth profile are given. Secondly, the simulation process of machining gear by modified rack cutter is introduced. The profile equation and coordinates for modified gear tooth profile are derived. Finally, by comparing the standard tooth profile with the modified tooth profile, the modification of tooth profile is calculated. Thus, the modification parameters of rack cutter obtained by TCA technology can be converted into the modification of tooth profile. An experiment which verified the accuracy of method is provided by the comparison between measuring curve of tooth profile of actual modification and theoretical curve of modified tooth profile.
Keywords
Gear Tooth profile modification TCA Machining Coordinate transformationList of symbols
- LM
Straight line part of rack cutting edge (in Fig. 5)
- MN
Arc part of rack cutting edge (in Fig. 5)
- PXY
Fixed coordinate system (in Fig. 5)
- P
Pitch point (in Fig. 5)
- PX
Coincident with the pitch line (in Fig. 5)
- PY
The line through the center of machined gear (in Fig. 5)
- O1X1Y1
Coordinate system built on the rack cutter which moves together with rack cutter
- O2X2Y2
Coordinate system built on the machined gear which moves together with gear
- ObXbYb
Cutting edge coordinate system
- OtXtYt
Transverse coordinate system built on the machined gear
- x1, y1
Cutting point coordinate in the rack cutter coordinate system
- x2, y2
Cutting point coordinate in machined gear coordinate system
- xb, yb
Cutting point coordinate in cutting edge coordinate system
- xt, yt
Coordinate in transverse coordinate system
- xt1, yt1
Coordinate in transverse coordinate system of standard gear tooth profile
- xt2, yt2
Coordinate in transverse coordinate system of modified gear tooth profile
- si
Distance between O1Y1 and PY
- mn
Normal modulus
- ξn
Normal modification coefficient
- α0n
Normal pressure angle of rack cutter
- B1PB2
Line of action
- φ
Rotation angle of gear
- am
Half normal tooth thickness of rack cutter pitch line
- rp
Radius of pitch circle
- rb
Radius of basic circle
- rf
Radius of dedendum circle
- dp
Distance between ObXb and O1XI along ObYb axis direction
- PT
Straight line through cutting point and pitch point P
- MT
Tangent of cutting edge through cutting point T
- β
Helix angle
- L
Gear profile modification along radial direction in transverse plane
- u
Distance between the point of rack cutter profile and parabola pole
- u1, u2
Position of three segment parabolas in the normal profile of rack cutter
- u0, u3
Determined according to the actual working tooth profile length of rack cutter
- di (i = 1,2,3)
The biggest modifications of each segment parabola
Notes
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51475210), A Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (Grant No. J17KA027) and major research project of Shandong province (Grant No. 2018GGX103035) during the course of this investigation. The authors would also like to thank the editor and anonymous reviewers for their suggestions for improving the paper.
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