Gear machining support device and gear machining device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11623289-B2
Application number	US-202016920797-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2020
Priority date	Jul 8, 2019
Publication date	Apr 11, 2023
Grant date	Apr 11, 2023

Abstract

A gear machining support device supports machining when a tooth of a gear is machined on a workpiece by relatively moving the workpiece and a machining tool while synchronizing rotations of the workpiece and the machining tool around respective center axis lines thereof. The gear machining support device includes: a target modification amount storage unit configured to store target modification amounts of at least two of modification elements of a tooth surface shape of the tooth of the gear, the modification elements including crowning, bias, a helix angle, a pressure angle, and a tooth profile roundness; and a correction amount determination unit configured to determine a correction amount of a machining control element during a machining operation such that the at least two of modification elements approximate the respective target modification amounts stored in the target modification amount storage unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gear machining support device that supports machining when a tooth of a gear is machined on a workpiece by relatively moving the workpiece and a machining tool while synchronizing a rotation of the workpiece around a center axis line of the workpiece and a rotation of the machining tool around a center axis line of the machining tool, the gear machining support device comprising: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the gear machining support device to perform operations comprising: obtaining target modification amounts of at least two modification elements of a tooth surface shape of the tooth of the gear, the modification elements comprising crowning, bias, a helix angle, a pressure angle, and a tooth profile roundness;
calculating a correlation between each of the modification elements of the tooth surface shape of the tooth of the gear and machining control elements based on a tooth surface shape of the gear obtained in response to changing only one of the machining control elements for each of the machining control elements, the machining control elements including a distance between centers of the center axis line of the machining tool and the center axis line of the workpiece, an intersection angle formed between the center axis line of the machining tool and the center axis line of the workpiece, an offset angle obtained when a machining point of the machining tool and the workpiece is deviated in a circumferential direction of the workpiece, and a rotation angle of the workpiece with respect to a rotation angle of the machining tool; and determining, based on the correlation, a correction amount of at least one of the machining control elements during a machining operation such that the at least two of modification elements approximate the respective target modification amounts.

2. The gear machining support device according to claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
calculating a tooth surface shape of the gear using the correction amount of the machining control element; and
calculating an error by comparing the tooth surface shape with the target modification amounts,

wherein the correction amount of the machining control element is changed and determined in a case in which the error is out of a tolerance value.

3. The gear machining support device according to claim 1 ,
wherein correction amounts of at least two of the machining control elements are determined.

4. The gear machining support device according to claim 1 ,
wherein in a case where the tooth of the gear is machined on the workpiece by moving a machining point of the machining tool and the workpiece toward an axis for creating an intersection angle formed by the center axis line of the machining tool and the center axis line of the workpiece, the operations further comprise:
calculating a distance between a center axis line of the axis for creating the intersection angle and the machining point; and
calculating a position of the machining point during the machining operation based on the calculated distance.

5. The gear machining support device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the calculating the position of the machining point comprises calculating a relative movement position of the machining tool and the workpiece as one of the machining control elements in accordance with a corrected intersection angle comprising a correction amount of the intersection angle as one of the machining control elements, such that the machining point is positioned on the center axis line of the workpiece.

6. The gear machining support device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the correction amount of the at least one of the machining control elements is determined based on a modification amount of the crowning.

7. The gear machining support device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the correction amount of the at least one of the machining control elements is determined based on a modification amount of the bias.

8. The gear machining support device according to claim 7 ,
wherein the correction amount of the at least one of the machining control elements is determined based on the helix angle.

9. A gear machining device comprising:
the gear machining support device according to claim 1 ; and
a controller,
wherein machining of the tooth of the gear is controlled by the controller based on the correction amount of the at least one of the machining control elements determined by the gear machining support device.

10. A gear machining support device that supports machining when a tooth of a gear is machined on a workpiece by relatively moving the workpiece and a machining tool while synchronizing a rotation of the workpiece around a center axis line of the workpiece and a rotation of the machining tool around a center axis line of the machining tool, the gear machining support device comprising: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed bythe processor, cause the gear machining support device to perform operations comprising: obtaining target modification amounts of at least two modification elements of a tooth surface shape of the tooth of the gear, the modification elements comprising crowning, bias, a helix angle, a pressure angle, and a tooth profile roundness; and determining a correction amount of at least one of machining control elements during a machining operation such that the at least two of modification elements approximate the respective target modification amounts, wherein in a case where the tooth of the gear is machined on the workpiece by moving a machining point of the machining tool and the workpiece toward an axis for creating an intersection angle formed by the center axis line of the machining tool and the center axis line of the workpiece, the operations further comprise:
calculating a distance between a center axis line of the axis for creating the intersection angle and the machining point; and calculating a position of the machining point during the machining operation based on the calculated distance.

11. The gear machining support device according to claim 10 ,
wherein the calculating the position of the machining point comprises calculating a relative movement position of the machining tool and the workpiece as one of the machining control elements in accordance with a corrected intersection angle comprising a correction amount of the intersection angle as one of the machining control elements, such that the machining point is positioned on the center axis line of the workpiece.

Assignees

• Jtekt Corp

Inventors

• Yoshinaga Katsuhito
• Shibata Hideki

Classifications

• B23F5/06

  the tool being a grinding disc with a plane front surface · CPC title

• B23F19/002 Primary

  Modifying the theoretical tooth flank form, e.g. crowning (B23F19/10 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B23F23/00 Primary

  Accessories or equipment combined with or arranged in, or specially designed to form part of, gear-cutting machines (accessories or equipment not restricted to gear-cutting machines B23Q) · CPC title

• B23F23/1218 Primary

  Checking devices for controlling workpieces in machines for manufacturing gear teeth · CPC title

• B23F23/006

  Equipment for synchronising movement of cutting tool and workpiece, the cutting tool and workpiece not being mechanically coupled · CPC title