An engine system has a crankshaft gear coupled to an engine crankshaft and a balance gear coupled to a balance shaft. The balance gear is formed by a disc having first and second opposite sides and a series of teeth. A first sector of the disc has at least one aperture therethrough, and a second opposite sector of the disc defines a recess intersecting the first side. The balance gear has a damper formed by a cover plate connected to the first side to enclose the recess and contain a plurality of particles therein. A gear and a method of forming a gear is also provided, with the gear having a first sector defining at least one aperture therethrough and a second sector defining a recess intersecting the first side. A plurality of particles are positioned in the recess, and a cover plate encloses the recess to form a damper.

The present disclosure relates to a process for machining a gear workpiece (100) comprising a plurality of tooth spaces (6), each of which is defined by two tooth flanks (5.1, 5.2); in said process, a gear tooth-forming tool (1) is used in order to provide at least one subset of all the tooth flanks (5.1, 5.2) with a non-periodically distributed modification of the flank geometry.

A method for producing a toothing with multiple teeth of a gear element for a gas turbine engine including the following steps: predefining a tooth root shape that defines a shape of the toothing in the area of tooth roots of adjacent teeth, wherein the tooth root shape is described by a spline curve at least in certain sections, in particular completely; and forming the toothing with the tooth root shape. A toothing for a gear element includes multiple teeth and a tooth root shape which is formed in the area of tooth roots of adjacent teeth and which is formed according to a spline curve at least in certain sections, in particular completely.

By combining shaping and milling actions, or smilling, the cutting tool can move through the entire usable portion of the spline and machine a tool relief into the face of the adjacent feature such as a shoulder before retracting, reversing direction, and repeating the cycle. The smilling apparatus and manufacturing method eliminates the need for an annular spline relief and the full length of spline engagement can be utilized for strength. The effective width of the spline connection apparatus manufactured by the smilling process conserves space and increases the load carrying capability of the spline connection.

A method for deburring bevel gears using a deburring tool, which comprises at least one cutting edge, having the following steps: rotationally driving the deburring tool around a deburring spindle axis, rotationally driving a bevel gear around a workpiece spindle axis, wherein the rotational driving of the deburring tool and the rotational driving of the bevel gear take place in a coupled manner with an inverse coupling transmission ratio, it is a continuous method for deburring, in which the cutting edge executes a relative flight movement in relation to the bevel gear, the relative flight movement is defined by a hypocycloid, and wherein a burr is removed at least on one tooth edge of a tooth gap in the region of the bevel gear toe and/or the bevel gear heel by a cutting contact of the cutting edge with the tooth edge.

Method for gear cutting a bevel gear workpiece, wherein a preliminary machining phase includes a first machining procedure, wherein a first relative infeed movement moves the gear cutting tool into a first starting position relative to the bevel gear workpiece, the gear cutting tool penetrates the material of the bevel gear workpiece relative to the bevel gear workpiece, proceeding from the first starting position up to a first end position, and the gear cutting tool and bevel gear workpiece carry out a first rolling procedure in a first rolling range, carrying out a further rolling procedure, in order to post-machine at least one of the tooth gaps on the bevel gear workpiece using the rotationally-driven gear cutting tool or another rotationally-driven gear cutting tool, wherein in the scope of this further rolling, a rolling rotation is carried out in a further rolling range, which differs from the first rolling range.

A method of manufacturing a gear, the method includes applying a first charge to a workpiece and applying a second, opposite charge to an electrochemical machining (ECM) attachment, the ECM attachment having a pattern. The method further includes simultaneously forming a plurality of surfaces of a gear tooth in the workpiece using the pattern of the ECM attachment while applying the first charge to the workpiece and applying the second charge to the ECM attachment and turning the workpiece and the ECM attachment in opposite rotational directions. The plurality of surfaces includes at least one end face and a top land of the gear tooth.

A method of manufacturing a gear, the method includes applying a first charge to a workpiece and applying a second, opposite charge to an electrochemical machining (ECM) attachment, the ECM attachment having a pattern. The method further includes simultaneously forming a plurality of surfaces of a gear tooth in the workpiece using the pattern of the ECM attachment while applying the first charge to the workpiece and applying the second charge to the ECM attachment and turning the workpiece and the ECM attachment in opposite rotational directions. The plurality of surfaces includes at least one end face and a top land of the gear tooth.

The present disclosure shows a method for gear cutting a workpiece on a machine tool that comprises a workpiece holder drivable about an axis of rotation and at least one tool holder drivable about an axis of rotation, wherein for the gear cutting operation a tool with a circular cylindrical shell surface is used, which with its shell surface is guided along a tooth flank of the workpiece tangentially to the target contour to be produced. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure it is provided that the tangential alignment of the shell surface relative to the target contour to be produced is achieved by positioning the tool along a first linear axis and by a rotary position of the workpiece about its axis of rotation.

The invention relates to a method for loading and unloading an internally toothed workpiece or a workpiece that is to be provided with internal toothing into/out of a clamping position, in which the workpiece, which is held by a retaining device, is brought into the clamping position by means of a conveying movement so that said workpiece, when clamped, has internal toothing cut by a gear cutting tool that occupies a cutting chamber and, after cutting, said workpiece, which is held by the retaining device, is returned from the clamping position in a return movement, wherein, prior to cutting, the retaining device is permitted to carry out an evasive movement that is different from the return movement/reverse conveying movement and that frees the cutting chamber, or the cutting chamber is already kept free of the retaining device as soon as the clamping position is reached.