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.

The present disclosure discloses a method for chip-removing gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by means of a tool, where a rotation of the tool takes place in generating coupling with a rotation of the workpiece, in particular gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by skiving, wherein the gear manufacturing machining is carried out in a plurality of machining steps, wherein the center distance and/or a rotational angle between the workpiece and the tool superimposed on the generating coupling is/are changed between two machining steps, so that the tool will cut in the machining steps a respective contour that extends alternately closer to a first and a second flank of the target toothing of the workpiece. According to the present disclosure, the same rotational angle may be used for a plurality of machining steps taking place closer to a second flank.

The invention relates to a method for machining a workpiece, wherein, in particular in the skiving process, a toothing is produced on the workpiece in a first machining operation, in which a toothed cutting wheel, which rotates about the axis of rotation thereof and, on a first end face, comprises cutting edges on the toothing thereof, is coupled in a rolling manner to the workpiece which rotates about the axis of rotation thereof, and a cutting movement of the cutting edges, which has directional components in parallel with the workpiece axis, ends at an axial side of the workpiece toothing, the cutting edges of the cutting wheel forming a first operating region which can be positioned with respect to the workpiece by means of movement axes, and in which, in a second machining operation using a second operating region, the workpiece is machined on the side of the workpiece toothing at which the movement ends, wherein the second operating region can be positioned with respect to the workpiece by means of the same movement axes as the first operating region, and in particular is coupled for movement to the first operating region.

A combined gear cutting apparatus includes a workpiece drive portion, a first processing portion holding and moving a first tool to a processing position for a workpiece, a second processing portion holding and moving a second tool to a processing position for the workpiece, and a control portion which includes a storage portion storing workpiece information indicating a configuration of the workpiece before first processing is performed, first tool information, second tool information and relative position information. The control portion includes a tooth groove configuration calculation portion calculating tooth groove configuration information of the workpiece based on the first tool information, the workpiece information and the relative position information obtained when the first processing is completed. The second tool is configured to move to a start position of second processing for the workpiece based on the tooth groove configuration information, the second tool information and the relative position information.

A multi-component gear cutting tool that is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The gear cutting tool comprises a tool body extending axially lengthwise between a first end and a second end with the tool body comprising a first material. The gear cutting tool further comprises a cutting tip attached to the tool body at one of the first end and the second end. The cutting tip comprises an outer axial-facing cutting end with the cutting end having a plurality of cutting faces. The cutting tip comprises a second material different than the first material and the cutting tip is attached to the tool body via brazing.

A gear machining apparatus creates a gear on a workpiece W by moving a gear cutting tool relatively with respect to the workpiece along the direction of the rotation axis of the workpiece W while synchronously rotating the gear cutting tool and the workpiece. One of a workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and a tool rotation speed controlling portion varies the rotation speed of one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool and the other one of the workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and the tool rotation speed controlling portion synchronizes the rotation speed of the other one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool with one of the rotation speed of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool.

A skiving cutter includes a cutting edge portion in which a tooth trace extends in a direction inclined with respect to an axis of a base. The cutting edge portion is segmented into a plurality of segmented cutting edges by cutting edge grooves extending in a direction intersecting the tooth trace. A helix angle is different according to positions of the plurality of segmented cutting edges.

Described and shown is a method for producing tooth flank modifications, in particular twists, on tooth flanks of at least one workpiece toothing of at least one workpiece, in particular gear wheel. In order that the production of tooth flank modifications on workpiece toothings of workpieces can be carried out more economically, it is provided that the production of the tooth flank modifications is carried out by skiving by means of a skiving tool, that the workpiece is driven in a rotating manner about a workpiece rotation axis and the skiving tool is driven in a rotating manner about a tool rotation axis arranged at an axis cross angle obliquely, in particular skew, to the workpiece rotation axis, in that the skiving tool, in particular rotating about the tool rotation axis , is brought into chipping engagement with the workpiece, in particular rotating about the workpiece rotation axis, in that the skiving tool being in chipping engagement with the workpiece and rotating about the tool rotation axis is moved relative to the workpiece rotating about the workpiece rotation axis along a longitudinal axis at least substantially parallel to the workpiece rotation axis or the tool rotation axis, and in that, in order to produce the tooth flank modifications, the skiving tool moving along the longitudinal axis is moved relative to the workpiece along at least one transverse axis at least substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.

A gear forming tool includes an outer sleeve having an outer sleeve aperture and an inner sleeve having an inner sleeve aperture in fluid communication with the outer sleeve aperture, a tool holder disposed within the outer sleeve, and a 3D printed gear cutting tool with a plurality of tool cutting edges and a plurality of capillaries attached to the tool holder. The tool holder has a plurality of fluid channels configured to be in fluid communication with the inner sleeve aperture and the plurality of capillaries of the 3D printed gear cutting tool such that cutting fluid flows through the outer sleeve, the inner sleeve, the plurality of fluid channels of the tool holder, and the plurality of capillaries to the plurality of tool cutting edges.

The invention relates to a peeling wheel for manufacturing a toothing on a gear wheel by skiving. The peeling wheel includes a toothing, which is formed by a plurality of equally shaped cutting teeth arranged and distributed around the rotational axis of the peeling wheel at a first pitch and at least one deviating cutting tooth, whose shape is different from the shape of the equally shaped cutting teeth. The cutting teeth include cutting edges with which they come into chip removing engagement with the material of the gear wheel during the skiving processing.

In order to be able to produce toothings with such a peeling wheel with increased freedom in the design, the invention proposes that the deviating cutting tooth is arranged outside of the first pitch (p).

The invention also relates to a method for producing a toothing on a gear wheel by skiving using a peeling wheel.