Research on Meshing of Face Gear Drive under Errors of Alignment and Machining
The coordinate systems for cutting face gears and for meshing of face gear drive with involute cylindrical pinion. The tooth surface equation of face gear with machining errors is deviated, such as change of shaft angle, change of shortest distance between face gear and cutter tool axes, helix angle of cutter tool. Tooth contact analysis applied in the paper considered with the alignment error of the driving system. The tooth contact path and the transmission error of the face gear drive were simulated through the tooth contact analysis for different alignment errors and machining errors. The simulation results indicate that all of the alignment errors and machining error don’t cause transmission error except helix angle error of the cutting tool. The errors will bring the shift of the contact path on gear teeth. The shift of bearing contact can be reduced by combination of different errors of alignment or machining.