A helical sector gear having a body and a gear segment having a plurality of helical teeth. The gear segment has a toothed sector, on which all of the helical teeth are formed, and spacing segments on the opposite circumferential ends of the toothed sector. Each of the spacing segments has a circumferential surface, which is longer than a pitch of the helical teeth, and a radial surface that is formed in a helical manner that conforms to the helix angle of helical teeth. A die set for forming the helical sector gear and a related method are also provided.

A method for hard finishing two different toothings on a workpiece, wherein, prior to each machining process, to set the correct tool engagement position for the machining process, a first relative rotational angle position of a first rotational position reference of the first toothing is determined relative to an axial rotational position of the workpiece spindle holding and clamping the workpiece for the first machining, and a second relative rotational angle position of a second rotational position reference of the second toothing is determined relative to an axial rotational position of a workpiece spindle holding and clamping the workpiece for the second machining, wherein the machining operations are carried out on the same workpiece spindle with no intervening clamping change, and with the first and second rotational position references coupled to each other as the basis thereof.

A method for the chip-producing machining of a gear wheel workpiece in a machine uses a cutting tool having at least two geometrically defined cutting edges, which produce material in chip form on the gear wheel workpiece during chip-producing machining. The chip-producing machining is defined by method parameters. The method includes computer-assisted analysis of the production of chips on the multiple cutting edges of the cutting tool and computer-assisted ascertainment of relative forces which will occur on the multiple cutting edges of the cutting tool during the production of chips. The method further includes optimizing the chip-producing machining to prevent the relative forces from exceeding a predetermined limiting value or reaching a limiting range. The optimization step includes providing adapted method parameters by modifying at least one of the method parameters. Chip-producing machining of the gear wheel workpiece is performed using the adapted method parameter(s).

A method for the chip-producing machining of a gear wheel workpiece in a machine uses a cutting tool having at least two geometrically defined cutting edges, which produce material in chip form on the gear wheel workpiece during chip-producing machining. The chip-producing machining is defined by method parameters. The method includes computer-assisted analysis of the production of chips on the multiple cutting edges of the cutting tool and computer-assisted ascertainment of relative forces which will occur on the multiple cutting edges of the cutting tool during the production of chips. The method further includes optimizing the chip-producing machining to prevent the relative forces from exceeding a predetermined limiting value or reaching a limiting range. The optimization step includes providing adapted method parameters by modifying at least one of the method parameters. Chip-producing machining of the gear wheel workpiece is performed using the adapted method parameter(s).

A mutual-lapping device and mutual-lapping method for improving processing precision based on the principle of error averaging is proposed. The device including driving friction wheel, driving belt pulley, transmission belt A, connecting rod A, rotation shaft segment A, multi-ball sleeve, mutual-lapping gear A, tension spring, driven friction wheel, pendulum bar of the driven friction wheel, driven belt pulley, transmission belt B, connecting rod B, pressure spring of tensioning pulley, tensioner mechanism, rotation shaft segment B and mutual-lapping gear B. By mutual lapping the high-precision gears, not only the pitch deviation, tooth profile deviation, helix deviation and runout can be reduced synchronously, but also the machining cost is low. Meanwhile, the effect of improving pitch accuracy, profile accuracy, helix accuracy and runout accuracy and reducing surface roughness is remarkable.

A mutual-lapping device and mutual-lapping method for improving processing precision based on the principle of error averaging is proposed. The device including driving friction wheel, driving belt pulley, transmission belt A, connecting rod A, rotation shaft segment A, multi-ball sleeve, mutual-lapping gear A, tension spring, driven friction wheel, pendulum bar of the driven friction wheel, driven belt pulley, transmission belt B, connecting rod B, pressure spring of tensioning pulley, tensioner mechanism, rotation shaft segment B and mutual-lapping gear B. By mutual lapping the high-precision gears, not only the pitch deviation, tooth profile deviation, helix deviation and runout can be reduced synchronously, but also the machining cost is low. Meanwhile, the effect of improving pitch accuracy, profile accuracy, helix accuracy and runout accuracy and reducing surface roughness is remarkable.

An outboard motor includes a shaft including a second spline that upwardly extends from a housing. The second spline is meshed with a first spline disposed inside either an engine cowl or an upper housing. The second spline includes a distal end and a body. The distal end is provided on an upper end of the shaft. The body is provided below the distal end. In the second spline, a groove width in the circumferential direction at the distal end is larger than a groove width in the circumferential direction at the body.

A gear machining apparatus performs cutting work for a workpiece and generates a gear by performing a feed operation of a gear cutter relative to the workpiece along a direction of an axis of the workpiece while synchronously rotating the gear cutter and the workpiece in a state in which an axis of the gear cutter is inclined with respect to a line parallel to the axis of the workpiece. The gear machining apparatus continuously performs cutting work for a first tooth flank and cutting work for a second tooth flank during a single feed operation, and changes a correction angle between the cutting work for the first tooth flank and the cutting work for the second tooth flank.

A gear machining apparatus and a gear machining method are provided. The gear machining apparatus performs cutting work for a workpiece and generates a gear by performing a feed operation of a gear cutter relative to the workpiece along a direction of an axis of the workpiece while synchronously rotating the gear cutter and the workpiece in a state in which an axis of the gear cutter is inclined with respect to a line parallel to the axis of the workpiece. The gear machining apparatus sets a correction angle to a first angle when cutting work for a second tooth flank is started after cutting work for a first tooth flank is finished, and moves the gear cutter from a first finish position to a second start position while rotating the workpiece and the gear cutter.

A mutual-lapping device and mutual-lapping method for improving processing precision based on the principle of error averaging is proposed. The device including driving friction wheel, driving belt pulley, transmission belt A, connecting rod A, rotation shaft segment A, multi-ball sleeve, mutual-lapping gear A, tension spring, driven friction wheel, pendulum bar of the driven friction wheel, driven belt pulley, transmission belt B, connecting rod B, pressure spring of tensioning pulley, tensioner mechanism, rotation shaft segment B and mutual-lapping gear B. By mutual lapping the high-precision gears, not only the pitch deviation, tooth profile deviation, helix deviation and runout can be reduced synchronously, but also the machining cost is low. Meanwhile, the effect of improving pitch accuracy, profile accuracy, helix accuracy and runout accuracy and reducing surface roughness is remarkable.