Coaxial gear mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11892058-B2
Application number	US-202217950690-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2022
Priority date	Sep 24, 2021
Publication date	Feb 6, 2024
Grant date	Feb 6, 2024

Abstract

A coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) includes a toothing ( 5 ) which is oriented axially with respect to an axis of rotation ( 3 ) of the coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ), a tooth carrier ( 7 ) which in each case has axially oriented guides ( 9 ), and tooth pins ( 11 ) which each comprise a body ( 50 ), which is mounted so as to be axially displaceable in a guide ( 9 ) of the tooth carrier ( 7 ), and a head region ( 51 ), wherein the head region ( 51 ) includes at least one tooth ( 52 ) for engagement with the toothing ( 5 ), and wherein the tooth carrier ( 7 ) wherein the tooth carrier has an irregular angular pitch.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ), comprising:
a toothing ( 5 ) which is oriented axially with respect to an axis of rotation ( 3 ) of the coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ),
a tooth carrier ( 7 ) which has axially oriented guides ( 9 ), and
tooth pins ( 11 ) which each comprise a body ( 50 ), which is mounted so as to be axially displaceable in a guide ( 9 ) of the axially oriented guides ( 9 ) of the tooth carrier ( 7 ), and a head region ( 51 ), wherein the head region ( 51 ) comprises at least one tooth ( 52 ) for engagement with the toothing ( 5 ),
wherein the tooth carrier has an irregular angular pitch, wherein the irregular angular pitch comprises a group of identical first angles ( 57 ) between adjacent guides ( 9 ) and at least one second angle ( 59 ), which is different from the first angles ( 57 ), between adjacent guides ( 9 ).

2. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the tooth pins ( 11 ) each comprise at least two teeth ( 52 ) in the head region ( 51 ).

3. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the tooth pins ( 11 ) are uniformly formed.

4. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the tooth pins ( 11 ) comprise a group of uniform tooth pins ( 61 ) and at least one special tooth pin ( 63 ) which is different from the uniform tooth pins ( 61 ).

5. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 4 , wherein the at least one special tooth pin ( 63 ) has, in the head region ( 51 ), a special number of teeth ( 52 ) which is different from a number of teeth ( 52 ) of a tooth pin of the uniform tooth pins ( 61 ).

6. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 4 , further comprising a tooth bearing for mounting the tooth pins ( 11 ) on a cam disk ( 15 ) of the coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ), wherein the tooth bearing comprises bearing segments ( 17 ) for pivotably mounting a tooth pin base of a tooth pin ( 11 ) of the tooth pins ( 11 ), wherein the bearing segments ( 17 ) comprise a group of uniform bearing segments ( 62 ) and at least one special bearing segment ( 64 ) for the at least one special tooth pin ( 63 ).

7. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) is produced from a kit for a range of coaxial gear mechanisms having different transmission ratios, and wherein the tooth carrier ( 7 ) is selected from a plurality of tooth carriers, wherein the tooth carriers ( 7 ) each have different angular pitches of the guides ( 9 ) for realizing the different transmission ratios.

8. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 7 , further comprising an antirotation securing ring ( 29 ) for rotationally securing the tooth pins ( 11 ), wherein an angular pitch of the antirotation securing ring ( 29 ) is equal to the angular pitch of the tooth carrier ( 7 ), and wherein the antirotation securing ring ( 29 ) is selected from a plurality of antirotation securing rings having different angular pitches.

9. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 7 , further comprising a cam disk ( 15 ) which in the circumferential direction has at least one axial elevation for axially driving the tooth pins ( 11 ), wherein the cam disk ( 15 ) is selected from a plurality of cam disks having different numbers of axial elevations.

10. The coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) according to claim 7 , wherein the toothing ( 5 ) for the coaxial gear mechanisms of the range having different transmission ratios is provided identically.

11. A method for producing a coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) from a range comprising a plurality of coaxial gear mechanisms having different transmission ratios, wherein the coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) comprises:
a toothing ( 5 ) which is oriented axially with respect to an axis of rotation ( 3 ) of the coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ),
a tooth carrier ( 7 ) which has axially oriented guides ( 9 ), and
tooth pins ( 11 ) which each comprise a body ( 50 ), which is axially displaceably mounted in a guide ( 9 ) of the axially oriented guides ( 9 ) of the tooth carrier ( 7 ), and a head region ( 51 ), wherein the head region ( 51 ) comprises at least one tooth ( 52 ) for engagement with the toothing ( 5 ),

wherein the method comprises:
selecting the tooth carrier ( 7 ) from a plurality of tooth carriers, wherein the tooth carriers each have different angular pitches of the axially oriented guides ( 9 ) for realizing the different transmission ratios, and
mounting the coaxial gear mechanism ( 1 ) with the toothing ( 5 ), the tooth carrier ( 7 ) and the tooth pins ( 11 ).

Assignees

• Wittenstein Se

Inventors

• Schmidt Michael
• Kimmelmann Martin
• Kümmeth Andreas

Classifications

• F16H1/24 Primary

  involving gears essentially having intermeshing elements other than involute or cycloidal teeth (F16H1/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16H55/12

  with body or rim assembled out of detachable parts · CPC title

• F16H25/06 Primary

  with intermediate members guided along tracks on both rotary members · CPC title

• F16H57/082

  Planet carriers · CPC title

• F16H57/023

  Mounting or installation of gears or shafts in the gearboxes, e.g. methods or means for assembly · CPC title