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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7137869 | Manufacturing cell for the treatment of grinding and wheel set testing and procedures for the operation of the manufacturing cell A manufacturing cell for the treatment of grinding of gear wheel flanks, in particular by bevel pinions, and suggested for the wheel set testing, which includes a grinding machine (1), an unreeling test equipment (2), a laser inscription unit (3... | 11/21/2006 |
| 6951501 | Method for forming a grinding worm for forming a conical face gear that meshes with a conical involute pinion A method for dressing a grinding worm that is to be used in forming a conical face gear that meshingly engages a conical involute pinion. The method employs true conjugate action between a theoretical conical involute pinion and a conical face gear to accurately pos... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6805617 | Process for the fine machining of the toothed gears of a gearbox The process describes how transmission gears (6) can be manufactured in a highly economical and highly precise manner. In one single mounting, the complete hard fine-machining on all of the most important functional surfaces of the workpiece is conducted simu... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6796877 | Abrading machine A machine for abrading or polishing a workpiece comprises a holding surface holding the workpiece, a head member arranged along a rotation axis to rotate about the rotation axis, a working member having a surface for abrading or polishing the workpiece arranged on t... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6390893 | Method of machining gears A method of machining at least one tooth flank of a gear with a finishing tool. The method comprises rotating the finishing tool, such as a grinding tool, and bringing the tool and the tooth flank into contact. Relative movement between the tool and the g... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6350181 | Process and device for the fine machining of the toothed gears of a gearbox The process describes how transmission gears (6) can be manufactured in a highly economical and highly precise manner. In one single mounting, the complete hard fine-machining on all of the most important functional surfaces of the workpiece is conducted ... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6347980 | Method for grinding traction surface of half-toroidal-type continuously variable transmission disk In a method for grinding a traction surface of a half-toroidal CVT disk, there is provided a grinding machine including a hold mechanism holding the half-toroidal CVT disk having a given machining allowance, and a machining mechanism including a tool for ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6217409 | Threaded grinding wheel and method of dressing A method of dressing a threaded grinding wheel such that twisting of workpiece tooth flanks does not occur during grinding. The grinding wheel is preferably dressed with a circular arc hollow-crowned generating front with the generating front being descri... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6217421 | Method of lapping gears A machine (20) for lapping or testing gears comprising a single machine column (22) having a first side (24) oriented perpendicular to a second side (26) with the first side having a first workpiece spindle (28) rotatable about a first axis and the second... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6033287 | Method of finishing the hardened teeth of a bevel gear wheel In a process for finishing the hardened teeth of a bevel gear wheel by grinding after hardening, the ground teeth are fine- honed, this procedure being carried out in the same chucking as the preceding grinding. A machine especially suitable for this proc... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5823857 | Apparatus and method for precision grinding of face gears A precision grinding apparatus includes a grinding worm for precision grinding a case-hardened face gear. A shaper is first placed into contact with a face gear, to thereby shape a surface of the face gear into a plurality of face gear teeth. The shaper i... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5014467 | Method and machine for the discontinuous generating grinding with indexing A method and a machine for the discontinuous generating grinding with indexing of the tooth flanks (14) of gears. The rotating grinding wheel (T) carries out several back and forth feed movements (X) from one axial side face of a tooth to the other. The g... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4920703 | Method and apparatus for finishing a tooth surface of a gear A workpiece and master gears are engaged each other and at least one of the workpiece and master gears is relatively rocked in a manner such that the relative rock movement of the master gear does not interfere substantially beyond an involute line of the... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4750848 | Involute gear cutter A gear cutter is provided as an accessory to a milling machine. A single gear cutting blade makes successive passes across a continuously rotating gear blank to cut a desired number of gear teeth. The cycle time of the cutting blade and the angular veloci... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4534684 | Apparatus for milling a gear for a double enveloping worm gear drive Apparatus for milling a gear for a double enveloping worm gear drive. A rotating milling cutter is advanced toward a workpiece spindle to mill a flank of a gear tooth by tilting the milling cutter supporting frame about an axis that passes through the axi... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4473971 | Protective cutoff device for a gear wheel grinding machine The protective cutoff device includes a cutoff control and a cutoff valve system connected to an automatic position control which is present anyway in the gear wheel grinding machine serving for topological flank correction grinding and to an adjusting cy... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4378660 | Method of and means for grinding pairs of gear wheels as spiral or curved toothed bevel gear wheels A method and apparatus for grinding pairs of gear wheels such as spiral or curved tooth bevel gear wheels whereby a first wheel is ground with a male cup-type grinding tool and a second, counter wheel is ground with a female cup-type grinding wheel with a... | 04/05/1983 |
