Gearwheel set, in particular for a gyroplane

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10118693-B2
Application number	US-201314381703-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 1, 2013
Priority date	Mar 1, 2012
Publication date	Nov 6, 2018
Grant date	Nov 6, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a gear set, especially for a rotary-wing aircraft, with two intermeshing gear wheels, each mounted on a respective shaft. In particular, in a normal section, the gear wheels of the gear set have different pressure angles on a drive side from the pressure angles on a freewheel side at the beginning of an engagement.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gear set for a rotary-wing aircraft, comprising:
two intermeshing gear wheels, each mounted on a respective shaft, wherein at least one of the shafts is configured to couple to a respective rotor of the rotary-wing aircraft, wherein in a normal section, a pressure angle on a drive side of said two intermeshing gear wheels is different from a pressure angle on a freewheel side of said two intermeshing gear wheels at the beginning of an engagement of said two intermeshing gear wheels;
wherein during the engagement, the pressure angle on the drive side of the two intermeshing gear wheels shows a different course than the pressure angle on the freewheel side of the said two intermeshing gear wheels; and
wherein said two intermeshing gear wheels are configured such that during the engagement, the sum of the pressure angle on the drive side of said two intermeshing gear wheels and the pressure angle on the freewheel side of said two intermeshing gear wheels remains constant;
wherein said two intermeshing gear wheels are bevel wheels such that the axes of the respective shafts intersect.

2. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein during the engagement, the pressure angle on the drive side of a gear tooth of one of said two intermeshing gear wheels is larger than the pressure angle on the freewheel side of the tooth shows a different course than the pressure angle on the freewheel side of the gear tooth of the one of said two intermeshing gear wheels.

3. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure angle on the drive side ranges between 25° and 45°.

4. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein said two intermeshing gear wheels are involute gear wheels.

5. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein the respective shafts mounted to the two intermeshing gear wheels are divergent.

6. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein said two intermeshing gear wheels have a helical or spiral design.

7. A rotating-wing aircraft transmission, comprising:
a drive system;
a main support rotor; and
a tail rotor,
wherein said rotating-wing aircraft transmission transmits a torque generated in the drive system to the main support rotor and the tail rotor, and wherein the gear set according to claim 1 is arranged in a power flow direction between the drive system and the main support rotor or the tail rotor.

8. A drive train for a rotary-wing aircraft, comprising:
a drive system;
a transmission gear unit arranged in a power flow direction between the drive system and a main support rotor; and
at least one main support rotor system arranged in a power flow direction between the drive system and the main support rotor,
wherein at least one of the transmission gear unit and the at least one main support rotor system comprises at least one gear set according to claim 1 .

9. The drive train according to claim 8 , further comprising a tail rotor transmission arranged in a power flow direction between the drive system and a tail rotor, wherein the tail rotor transmission comprises the gear set according to claim 1 .

10. A rotary-wing aircraft comprising:
a rotor; and
a drive system for the rotor,
wherein at least one transmission provided in a power flow direction between the drive system and the rotor comprises at least one gear set according to claim 1 .

11. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure angle on the drive side ranges between 28° and 32°.

12. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure angle on the freewheel side ranges between 14° and 16°.

13. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein the two intermeshing gear wheels have no undercut contour in an area where tooth flanks of the two intermeshing gear wheels touch one another during the engagement.

14. The gear set according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure angle on the freewheel side ranges between 10° and 20°.

15. The drive train according to claim 8 , wherein an intermediate shaft connects the transmission gear unit to the at least one main support rotor system, and a main rotor shaft connects the main support rotor system to the main support rotor.

16. The drive train according to claim 15 , wherein the intermediate shaft extends in longitudinal direction of the rotary-wing aircraft, and the main rotor shaft extends in vertical direction with respect to the intermediate shaft.

Assignees

• Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen

Inventors

• Lieder Sergej
• Ruhland Reinhold

Classifications

• B64C27/12 Primary

  Rotor drives · CPC title

• F16H55/0806

  Involute profile · CPC title

• F16H55/08

  Profiling · CPC title

• Y10T74/19074

  Single drive plural driven · CPC title

• Y10T74/1966

  Intersecting axes · CPC title