A method for machining a gearwheel by means of stock removal using a numerical-control machine tool with at least five machining axes. Also described are an apparatus for producing commands and a machining system which comprises a machine tool with at least five axes, data input means and calculation and processing and command units.

A method for machining a gearwheel by means of stock removal using a numerical-control machine tool with at least five machining axes. Also described are an apparatus for producing commands and a machining system which comprises a machine tool with at least five axes, data input means and calculation and processing and command units.

The invention relates to a method for machining the tip circle diameter of a tooth system (4) of a gearwheel (6), in which the gearwheel (6) rotates about a workpiece axis of rotation (Rw), and in which at least one tooth (9) of the tooth system (4) is machined, by removing chips, by means of a tool (7, 7) that rotates about a tool axis of rotation (Rz) oriented at an axial distance (A, A) relative to the workpiece axis of rotation (Rw). According to the invention, the tool (7, 7) is disk-shaped, the disk-shaped tool (7, 7) machines the tip surface (8) of the tooth (9), by removing chips, with at least one partial segment (10a) of its circumferential edge configured as a defined blade (10), wherein a relative movement between the tool (7, 7) and the gearwheel (6), oriented in the axial direction of the tooth system (4), is carried out during the chip-removing machining, as a consequence of which movement the tool (7, 7) sweeps over the tip surface (8), and the tool axis of rotation (Rz) is oriented at an axis intersection angle (?) of 5? to 40? with respect to the workpiece axis of rotation (Rw). In this way, efficient and highly precise machining of the tip circle diameter is made possible. The invention also states a method for producing a gearwheel, in which the tooth system (4) is produced on a gearwheel blank (5) by means of hob peeling before machining of the tip circle diameter according to the invention, as well as a combination tool, in which a hob-peeling wheel for producing the gearwheel and a disk-shaped tool for machining the tip circle diameter according to the invention are combined with each other.

The present disclosure relates to a device for machining a work-piece with a tool, including a tool receptacle for releasably clamping a tool, such as a hob peeling wheel, and a machining head, which is provided with the tool receptacle, and is designed to drive a tool clamped therein, and to move it relative to a work-piece to be machined, including an assessment unit for imaging and/or measuring a tool, or a part thereof, in order to detect the state of wear of the tool.

A method for cutting teeth into working gears using a tool, the tool main part of which has a plurality of cutting teeth which are arranged about a rotational axis and which protrude radially from the tool main part, the cutting teeth forming an end face, two tooth flanks which point away from each other, and cutting edges. The cutting edges are formed from the tooth flank edges adjoining the end face. In a first method step, tooth gaps which form tooth flanks are produced in the working gear by means of the cutting edges using a machining process in a first position of the tool relative to the working gear, and in a second method step, the working gear tooth flanks produced by the cutting edges are fine-machined by an abrasive tool surface.

A method for producing a toothed workpiece wheel, the tooth root of which adjoins an end face of the workpiece wheel with a chamfer extending into the tooth flanks being formed, wherein the toothing of the workpiece wheel is created by skiving with a gear-cutting tool which has a first number of cutting teeth that each form cutting edges and the rotation axis of which is at a first crossed-axes angle to the axis of rotation of the workpiece wheel, with an infeed in a first infeed direction parallel to the direction of extension of the tooth flanks to be produced and of the tooth root. The chamfer is created by skiving with a chamfering tool which has a second number of cutting teeth that each form cutting edges and the rotation axis of which is at a second crossed-axes angle to the axis of the workpiece wheel, with an infeed in a second infeed direction parallel to the direction of extension of the chamfer to be produced in the tooth root. Also disclosed is an associated tool set.

A tool for machining splines on a workpiece comprises a base, a first tooth extending radially from the base and a second tooth extending radially from the base. The second tooth is spaced circumferentially from the first tooth. The first tooth has a first height, the second tooth has a second height and the second height is less than the first height. The first tooth tapers from the base to the tip of the first tooth, the second tooth tapers from the base to the tip of the second tooth and the first tooth is identical to the second tooth to the second height.

A method and apparatus are present for manufacturing a part. The part is comprised of a metal alloy and is positioned to form a positioned part. An electromagnetic field is generated that heats the positioned part. A surface of the positioned part is exposed to an inert gas, while the electromagnetic field is generated to create an inverse thermal gradient between an exterior of the positioned part and an interior section of the positioned part to form a heat treated part.

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 invention relates to a method for creating or machining gears on workpieces (W1, W2), in which a rolling first machining engagement between a machining tool (WF; WS) that is driven about its rotation axis (B) and a first workpiece that is rotatable about the rotation axis (C1) of a first workpiece-side spindle (11) is realized at a first location on a gear-cutting machine (100; 200) by means of a tool-side spindle drive motor (22), and in which a second machining engagement is realized at a second workpiece, different from the first workpiece, that is rotatable about the rotation axis of a second workpiece-side spindle (12) that is different from the first workpiece-side spindle, wherein the machining tool can execute, relative to the first workpiece-side spindle, a movement, serving as an axial infeed movement in the first machining engagement, along a tool-side machine axis (Z) that has a direction component in the direction of the first workpiece-side spindle axis and in particular extends parallel thereto, wherein, after the first machining engagement, a tool-side positioning movement that takes place along this tool-side machine axis and allows the second machining engagement is carried out, wherein the second machining engagement is a machining engagement that is identical to the first machining engagement in terms of type of machining, is effected using the same tool-side spindle drive motor as in the first machining, and is carried out in the gear-cutting machine at a second point that is different from the first point.