A gearing, in particular a coaxial gearing or a linear gearing, comprising a tooth system, a tooth carrier having guides, teeth received within the guides for engagement with the tooth system, wherein the teeth are mounted within the guides to be displaceable in the direction of their longitudinal axis relative to the tooth carrier, a cam disk for driving the teeth along the respective longitudinal axis of the teeth, wherein at least one of the teeth respectively has a tooth flank area having tooth flanks, and a tooth body, wherein, between the tooth body and the tooth flanks, one shoulder respectively is provided, which projects back from the tooth body to the inside towards the tooth flank.

An electric drive module and an electric drive equipment are provided, the electric drive module comprises a housing, a force output assembly, a flexible gear, a rotor, a stator, a wave generator, and a cooling pipe, the stator is configured to drive the rotor to rotate relative to the housing, when the rotor rotates, the wave generator drives the flexible gear to deform to drive the rigid gear to rotate, at least part of the cooling pipe is received in and closes to the stator. The electric drive module is compact and space saving, the flexible gear is secured to the housing, the rotation of the rigid gear driven by the deformation of the flexible outputs power, which is low rotational inertia and decreases vibration, the cooling pipe arranged in the stator can directly dissipate heat from the stator with high heat dissipation efficiency.

Harmonic drives (HDs) are used widely in robotics as a method for achieving high gear reductions and for driving force transmissions. The HD is made a three components: a wave generator, a flexspline, and a circular spline. Low-cost wave generators for metal strain wave gearing are provided. Wave generators are provided that incorporate commercially available bearings that form an ellipse either statically or through adjustment. Wave generators are optimized to maximum performance, including increasing the efficiency and the lifetime, while maximizing the running torque. The shape, size, number, type and location of the bearings can be changed so that the wave generator fails at a similar lifetime as a low cost flexspline. The shape of the wave generator may be adjusted to change the performance of the strain wave gear. The combination of low-cost flexsplines with low-cost wave generators reduces the cost of the strain wave gear.

A gear device includes an internal gear, an external gear, and a wave generator. The external gear includes a cylinder section including external teeth, a diaphragm extending to a radial direction outer side of the cylinder section on the opposite side of the external teeth, and an annular boss section coupled to the outer circumferential end side of the diaphragm. The thickness of the diaphragm gradually decreases from the outer circumferential end toward a center portion in the radial direction of the diaphragm. In a natural state, a part (an inclination start part) where a first surface on the external teeth side of the diaphragm starts to incline with respect to an imaginary surface, which is a surface perpendicular to a rotation axis, is present further on the cylinder section side in the radial direction than the inner circumferential surface of the boss section.

A method of making a strain wave includes the steps of a) providing a circular spline, a flexspline meshed with the circular spline, and an initial wave generator having an initial outer profile of a standard ellipse with a perimeter S.sub.0, and b) producing a modified wave generator rotatably fitted within the flexspline and having a modified outer profile with a perimeter S. A difference E.sub.S between the perimeter S of the modified outer profile and the perimeter S.sub.0 of the initial outer profile satisfies the equation E.sub.S=S−S.sub.0=0.1 m to 0.8 m, wherein m is the modulus of the flexspline. Through a special parameter design of the modified wave generator, the meshing ratio between the circular spline and the flexspline is increased, thereby improving the transmission accuracy and reducing the average load.

A boss-side fastening surface formed in a boss of a flexible externally toothed gear of a strain wave gearing and a shaft-side fastening surface of an output shaft are coaxially fastened with bolts. The boss-side fastening surface is a convex-side fastening surface defined by two symmetrical inclined surfaces that are intersected at a prescribed angle to form a ridge line on a diameter line of the surface. The shaft-side fastening surface is a concave-side fastening surface defined by two symmetrical inclined surfaces that are intersected at a prescribed angle to form a trough line on a diameter line of the surface. The inclination angle of the inclined surfaces is set in the range of 2° to 16°. Transmission torques equal to or larger than those for combined bolt and pin fastening can be secured with bolt-only fastening.

Methods for the fabrication of metal strain wave gear flexsplines using a specialized metal additive manufacturing technique are provided. The method allows the entire flexspline to be metal printed, including all the components: the output surface with mating features, the thin wall of the cup, and the teeth integral to the flexspline. The flexspline may be used directly upon removal from the building tray.

Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement bulk metallic glass-based strain wave gears and strain wave gear components. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a strain wave gear includes: shaping a BMG-based material using a mold in conjunction with one of a thermoplastic forming technique and a casting technique; where the BMG-based material is shaped into one of: a wave generator plug, an inner race, an outer race, a rolling element, a flexspline, a flexspline without a set of gear teeth, a circular spline, a circular spline without a set of gear teeth, a set of gear teeth to be incorporated within a flexspline, and a set of gear teeth to be incorporated within a circular spline.

Provided is a strain wave gearing apparatus which is able to make the most of the structural advantages of the flat form while achieving ideal mesh-engagement without involving a high degree of dimensional precision or any special adjustment mechanism. A strain wave gearing apparatus is provided with a stationary internal gear, a rotary internal gear disposed side by side with the stationary internal gear, a flexible planetary gear disposed on the inner peripheral side thereof for meshing partially with the internal gears by being deflected in the radial direction, and a wave generator disposed inside the flexible planetary gear for continuously deforming and deflecting the flexible planetary gear by rotation. In the apparatus, backlash during mesh-engagement is eliminated by making the base portions and of the internal gears and elastic.

A configurable gear system that includes a set of gear segments; each gear segment of the set of gear segments including a base structure, a gearing surface connected to the base structure and extended along at least one face, and two segment connectors at opposing sides of the gearing surface; and wherein at least a subset of the gear segments interconnect through the gear connector interface into a gearing configuration.