Dressing Device for Gear Grinding with Varying Pressure Angle
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gear grinding devices face challenges in uniformly machining gears with detailed profiles, such as involute tooth profiles with crowning, as they tend to twist, leading to bias issues that are difficult to correct without increasing device size and manufacturing costs.
Innovation Solution
A dressing device that uses a threaded grinding wheel with a varying pressure angle, where the wheel is rotated and moved axially relative to a dressing tool, allowing the pressure angle to change in the tooth trace direction without requiring a mechanism for inclining the spindle or position sensors, thus adjusting the bias without increasing costs or device size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the threaded grinding wheel is turned to vary the pressure angle for bias correction, then the bias amount can be adjusted, but the device size and manufacturing cost increase due to required high-stiffness mechanisms and position detecting sensors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the operational parameters of the existing dressing device by varying the rotating speed of the threaded grinding wheel and the moving speed in the axial direction during the dressing process. This creates a varying pressure angle along the tooth trace direction without requiring any structural modifications, high-stiffness mechanisms, or position detecting sensors, thus achieving bias correction while maintaining device compactness and low manufacturing cost
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic control of the dressing process by continuously varying the rotating speed of the threaded grinding wheel or the axial moving speed during operation. This dynamic parameter adjustment enables the pressure angle to vary along the tooth trace direction, achieving bias correction through operational flexibility rather than through complex mechanical structures
2Manufacturing precision
If the threaded grinding wheel is turned to vary the pressure angle, then bias correction is achieved, but the device requires high-stiffness mechanisms and position detecting sensors which increases manufacturing cost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent achieves bias correction by changing operational parameters (rotating speed or axial moving speed) rather than structural parameters. This approach eliminates the need for expensive high-stiffness mechanisms and position detecting sensors, significantly reducing manufacturing cost while maintaining the ability to precisely adjust bias amount
Solution Approach 2:
The existing dressing device structure serves itself by utilizing its inherent capabilities (rotation and axial movement) combined with dynamic parameter control. No additional expensive components are needed as the existing system, when operated with varying speeds, automatically achieves the pressure angle variation required for bias correction
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enables the formation of gears with zero bias by varying the pressure angle along the tooth trace direction, reducing manufacturing costs and maintaining device compactness, while allowing for precise adjustment of the gear's shape and lead.
Implementation Method 1
a threaded grinding wheel used for machining of a gear is rotatably supported
Implementation Method 2
a dressing tool which is rotatably supported parallel to the gear grinding tool spindle and which dresses the threaded grinding wheel
Data Source
AI summary
This dressing device has: a gear grinding tool spindle (7) that rotatably supports a screw-shaped grindstone (10); and a dressing tool (30) that dresses the screw-shaped grindstone (10). The dressing device dresses the screw-shaped grindstone (10) by driving the screw-shaped grindstone (10) to rotate, and causing the relative motion of the screw-shaped grindstone (10) and/or the dressing tool (30). The dressing device performs a dressing process on the screw-shaped grindstone (10) in a manner such that the pressure angle changes along the direction of the tooth line by means of moving the screw-shaped whetstone (10) and/or dressing tool (30) at a fixed speed and altering the speed of rotation of the screw-shaped grindstone (10), or rotating the screw-shaped grindstone (10) at a fixed speed and altering the speed of motion in the axial direction of the screw-shaped grindstone (10) and/or the dressing tool (30).


