A method wherein a cutting or grinding chamfering tool (25) is guided along the face width of a gear (12, 23, 52) through one tooth slot (8) (e.g. from heel to toe) while it contacts the topland corners (10, 1 1) of the respective concave and convex tooth flanks of adjacent teeth (2, 4). The tool moves to an index position, the gear is indexed to the next tooth slot position and the tool moves through the tooth slot (e.g. from the toe to the heel). The cycle is repeated until all topland corners are chamfered.

A method wherein a cutting or grinding chamfering tool (25) is guided along the face width of a gear (12, 23, 52) through one tooth slot (8) (e.g. from heel to toe) while it contacts the topland corners (10, 1 1) of the respective concave and convex tooth flanks of adjacent teeth (2, 4). The tool moves to an index position, the gear is indexed to the next tooth slot position and the tool moves through the tooth slot (e.g. from the toe to the heel). The cycle is repeated until all topland corners are chamfered.

Method for grinding a bevel gear, comprising the method steps of clamping a bevel gear (14) to be ground on a workpiece spindle (12) of a bevel gear grinding machine (2); first grinding of the tooth flanks (16, 18) of the bevel gear (14) with a first grinding tool (6), wherein the first grinding tool (6) is arranged on a first tool spindle (4) of the bevel gear grinding machine (2); fine grinding of the tooth flanks (16, 18) of the bevel gear (14) with a second grinding tool (10), wherein the second grinding tool (10) is arranged on a second tool spindle (8) of the bevel gear grinding machine (2).

A gear cutting tool wherein each cutting blade group includes two differently positioned but identical cutting blades (41, 40) such as an one outside and one inside blade. The inventive blade arrangement only requires a single type of blade (30) in order to simultaneously cut the convex and the concave tooth flanks of a gear as well as the root fillet and root bottom portions of tooth slots. The cutter system allows radial adjustment of the outside cutting blade and the inside cutting blade independently of one another. Additionally, inside and outside cutting blades may be exchanged with one another.

An assembly for acoustically influencing toothed wheels, including at least one first toothed wheel having teeth and one second toothed wheel having teeth, wherein the teeth have flanks, wherein at least one flank of a tooth of the first toothed wheel can be engaged with a flank of a tooth of the second toothed wheel, wherein at least one flank of a tooth of the first toothed wheel forms a contact zone or, in the ideal case, a contact line with an engaging flank of a tooth of a second toothed wheel, wherein the contact zone or the contact line is formed at an angle .sub.Aq, in particular between 5 and 85 or between 95 and 175, in relation to an axis of an undulation, a microangle distribution, and/or a microangle periodicity of the engaging flank of the tooth of the second toothed wheel.

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.

A machine and method for the finishing of gears with a finishing tool, in particular a grinding wheel; the machine having a plurality of workpiece carrier slides, a plurality of workpiece carrier spindles, each of which is mounted on a respective workpiece carrier slide, and a plurality of loading-unloading stations; each workpiece carrier spindle is rotating and supports a gear; each workpiece carrier slide slides from a respective loading-unloading station to a working station and vice versa; in which the control unit synchronizes the rotation of each gear with the rotation of the finishing tool outside of the working station so that by entering the working station the gear meshes with the finishing tool without collisions.

A machine and method for the finishing of gears with a finishing tool, in particular a grinding wheel; the machine having a plurality of workpiece carrier slides, a plurality of workpiece carrier spindles, each of which is mounted on a respective workpiece carrier slide, and a plurality of loading-unloading stations; each workpiece carrier spindle is rotating and supports a gear; each workpiece carrier slide slides from a respective loading-unloading station to a working station and vice versa; in which the control unit synchronizes the rotation of each gear with the rotation of the finishing tool outside of the working station so that by entering the working station the gear meshes with the finishing tool without collisions.

A method wherein a first workpiece (2, 40) is loaded to a spindle (30) of a workpiece processing machine with the first toothed workpiece having a predetermined design and being in a predetermined rotational load position. The first toothed workpiece is stock-divided and a machining position is determined based on the stock-dividing. The first toothed workpiece is rotationally adjusted to the machining position. The teeth (3, 42) of the first toothed workpiece are then machined and the first workpiece is removed from the spindle. A second toothed workpiece is loaded to the spindle of the workpiece processing machine. The second toothed workpiece has the same predetermined design and is in the same predetermined rotational load position as the first toothed workpiece. The second toothed workpiece is rotationally adjusted from the predetermined rotational load position to the machining position by the same adjustment amount as the first toothed workpiece. The second toothed workpiece is machined and then removed from the machine spindle. The process as performed for the second toothed workpiece can be repeated for subsequent workpieces having the same design and being in the same rotational load position as the first and second workpieces. For the second and subsequent toothed workpieces, the step of determining the rotary position of the teeth is not carried out.

A method wherein a first workpiece (2, 40) is loaded to a spindle (30) of a workpiece processing machine with the first toothed workpiece having a predetermined design and being in a predetermined rotational load position. The first toothed workpiece is stock-divided and a machining position is determined based on the stock-dividing. The first toothed workpiece is rotationally adjusted to the machining position. The teeth (3, 42) of the first toothed workpiece are then machined and the first workpiece is removed from the spindle. A second toothed workpiece is loaded to the spindle of the workpiece processing machine. The second toothed workpiece has the same predetermined design and is in the same predetermined rotational load position as the first toothed workpiece. The second toothed workpiece is rotationally adjusted from the predetermined rotational load position to the machining position by the same adjustment amount as the first toothed workpiece. The second toothed workpiece is machined and then removed from the machine spindle. The process as performed for the second toothed workpiece can be repeated for subsequent workpieces having the same design and being in the same rotational load position as the first and second workpieces. For the second and subsequent toothed workpieces, the step of determining the rotary position of the teeth is not carried out.