Machine element or mechanism – Gearing – Teeth
Reexamination Certificate
2005-01-04
2005-01-04
Bucci, David A. (Department: 3682)
Machine element or mechanism
Gearing
Teeth
C074S462000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06837123
ABSTRACT:
Several embodiments of various non-involute gear tooth profiles incorporate relief areas formed across the area of the tooth face generally symmetrically to each side of the pitch circle of the gear. The relief area serves to preclude contact across the areas of meshing or mating gear teeth where convex-to-convex contact would otherwise occur, thus precluding high pressure contact between the two gear teeth at the area of the relief. The remainder of the contact of such non-involute gear tooth profiles provides conformal contact, i. e., convex-to-concave mating faces with correspondingly low pressures developed between the tooth portions. The present invention enables a given gear set to absorb considerably greater torque and force than would otherwise be they case, or alternatively allows gear sets to be made considerably smaller and lighter for a given torque transmission, than would otherwise be the case.
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Bucci David A.
Litman Richard C.
McAnulty Timothy
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