A motion which creates an end relief and which is integrated into the plunging cycle of non-generated bevel gears. The tool, after feeding to the correct tooth forming position in case of non-generated gears, is swung sideways out of cutting or grinding contact with the slot instead of along a withdraw path which is identical to the plunge path but opposite in direction.

A method for the grinding finish machining of an already toothed gearwheel workpiece in an NC-controlled machine tool, comprising the following steps: a. providing the gearwheel workpiece in the machine tool, b. providing a first grinding tool in the machine tool, c. providing a second grinding tool in the machine tool, d. grinding machining of at least one tooth flank of the gearwheel workpiece using the first grinding tool, e. grinding machining of at least one tooth flank in the transition region to the tooth head of the gearwheel workpiece using the second grinding tool in the machine tool to generate a head edge rounding on the gearwheel workpiece, f. further grinding machining of at least one tooth flank of the gearwheel workpiece using the first grinding tool and/or the second grinding tool in the machine tool.

A method includes the following method steps: grinding of bevel gears, wherein the respective bevel gears have a straight toothing to be ground, wherein the grinding is carried out by a disk-shaped grinding tool by discontinuous generating grinding using a predetermined rolling ratio. A cutting face of the grinding tool, which rolls during the grinding with teeth of the straight toothing of a respective bevel gear, forms a section of a hollow cone inner surface, and wherein a respective longitudinal crowning is generated on the respective straight toothing of the respective bevel gears by the grinding using the cutting face forming the section of the hollow cone inner surface. The method is distinguished in that the grinding tool is a dressable grinding tool and dressing of the grinding tool is carried out.

A method which is executed in a grinding machine comprising a) rotationally driving a cup grinding wheel around an axis of rotation of a tool spindle at a first speed, b) rotationally driving a dressing tool around an axis of rotation of a dressing spindle at a second speed, c) carrying out a dressing method using the dressing tool, wherein a predetermined, fixed speed ratio is specified between the first speed and the second speed, and after steps (a), (b), and (c): i. eccentrically rotationally driving the cup grinding wheel around the axis of rotation of the tool spindle at a first machining speed using the eccentric drive, ii. carrying out a grinding method, wherein the bevel gear workpiece is machined by grinding using the cup grinding wheel.

A method for machining the tooth flanks of a bevel gear workpiece includes carrying out correction machining of a concave tooth flank and a convex tooth flank of at least one tooth gap by, after machining using a first machine setting, cutting free of the concave tooth flank by the bevel gear workpiece executing a workpiece rotation in a first rotational direction having a predefined first absolute value in relation to a gear-cutting tool and/or cutting free the convex flank by the bevel gear workpiece executing a workpiece rotation in another rotational direction having a predefined second absolute value in relation to the gear-cutting tool, and finish machining the concave tooth flank using a second machine setting, which differs from the first machine setting, and finish machining the convex tooth flank using a third machine setting, which differs from the second machine setting.

A process for improving the excitation behavior of a ground bevel gear set by altering the surface structure of a gear set member from tooth slot to tooth slot (Teeth 1-3). The method comprises shifting the roll-positions in a way that not every facet or flat (F) is positioned the same way on each flank (2) and/or changing the distances of the roll angle along a tooth slot (delta RPj) whereby flats are spaced unequally (i.e. varying widths) along the tooth. One or more additional processes for altering the surface structure may be included.

A method for the grinding finish machining of an already toothed gearwheel workpiece in an NC-controlled machine tool, comprising the following steps: a. providing the gearwheel workpiece in the machine tool, b. providing a first grinding tool in the machine tool, c. providing a second grinding tool in the machine tool, d. grinding machining of at least one tooth flank of the gearwheel workpiece using the first grinding tool, e. grinding machining of at least one tooth flank in the transition region to the tooth head of the gearwheel workpiece using the second grinding tool in the machine tool to generate a head edge rounding on the gearwheel workpiece, f. further grinding machining of at least one tooth flank of the gearwheel workpiece using the first grinding tool and/or the second grinding tool in the machine tool.

A method which is executed in a grinding machine comprising a) rotationally driving a cup grinding wheel around an axis of rotation of a tool spindle at a first speed, b) rotationally driving a dressing tool around an axis of rotation of a dressing spindle at a second speed, c) carrying out a dressing method using the dressing tool, wherein a predetermined, fixed speed ratio is specified between the first speed and the second speed, and after steps (a), (b), and (c): i. eccentrically rotationally driving the cup grinding wheel around the axis of rotation of the tool spindle at a first machining speed using the eccentric drive, ii. carrying out a grinding method, wherein the bevel gear workpiece is machined by grinding using the cup grinding wheel.

A machine tool (20) for machining a gearwheel workpiece (1), having: a tool spindle (21) for fastening a tool (2), a workpiece spindle (22) for fastening the gearwheel workpiece (1), a CNC controller (50) and multiple axes for the CNC-controlled machining of the gearwheel workpiece (1) using the tool (2), an optical detector (40) to acquire image information (BI) of the gearwheel workpiece (1), and a module (51), which is designed to ascertain characteristic actual parameters of the gearwheel workpiece (1) based on the image information (BI) of the gearwheel workpiece (1).

A method for machining the tooth flanks of a bevel gear workpiece includes carrying out correction machining of a concave tooth flank and a convex tooth flank of at least one tooth gap by, after machining using a first machine setting, cutting free of the concave tooth flank by the bevel gear workpiece executing a workpiece rotation in a first rotational direction having a predefined first absolute value in relation to a gear-cutting tool and/or cutting free the convex flank by the bevel gear workpiece executing a workpiece rotation in another rotational direction having a predefined second absolute value in relation to the gear-cutting tool, and finish machining the concave tooth flank using a second machine setting, which differs from the first machine setting, and finish machining the convex tooth flank using a third machine setting, which differs from the second machine setting.