METHOD FOR MACHINING A TOOTHING, A MACHINING TOOL, AND A MACHINE TOOL

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for machining a toothing that is chamfered on a tooth head front edge, in which a material projection resulting on said tooth head front edge chamfer, caused by chamfer formation on a tooth front edge of the toothing by means of plastic deformation, and/or caused by removing a primary/secondary burr produced on said end face during production of the toothing and, if applicable, formation of the tooth front edge chamfer, is removed in a rotational operation by a machining procedure with a machining tool that has a cutting edge.

Claims

1. Method for machining a toothing (31) that is provided with a chamfer (33) on a tooth tip end edge, wherein excess material on the chamfer (33) on the tooth tip end edge that results from chamfering on a tooth end edge (32) of the toothing by means of plastic deformation and/or from removal of a primary or secondary burr produced on the end face during production of the toothing or during chamfering of the tooth end edge is removed by machining engagement in a turning operation using a machining tool (10, 10′) that is provided with a cutting edge (13a, b).

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the removal of the secondary burrs and/or the chamfering on the tooth end edge occurs at the same location and/or in the same setting of the machined toothing as the turning operation, and from the same side.

3. Method according to claim 1 wherein the secondary burrs are removed using the same machining tool (10, 10′) as is used in the turning operation by means of filing off.

4. Method according to claim 1 wherein the machining tool is also used while producing the toothing, to remove the primary burrs that form in the process on the end face of the toothing.

5. Method according to claim 1 wherein radial infeed motions on the tool side for the chamfering on the tooth end edge and for the turning operation are coupled together, axial displacement movements on the tool side for the chamfering on the tooth end edge and for the turning operation are coupled together, and/or rotary movement possibilities on the tool side for the chamfering on the tooth end edge and for the turning operation are decoupled from one another.

6. Method according to claim 1 wherein the machining tool (10, 10′) is moved into a different rotational position between its use and the chamfering of the tooth end edge.

7. Machining tool (10, 10′) for machining a chamfer (33) formed on a tooth tip end edge of a toothing, comprising a cutting edge (13a, b) for removing excess material from the chamfer (33) on the tooth tip end edge, wherein the machining tool is formed in the manner of a disc, having a second peripheral region (2) that has a radial extension that is different from a first radial extension of a first peripheral region (1), and the cutting edge (13a, b) is arranged at a transition between the first (1) and the second (2) peripheral region.

8. Machining tool according to claim 7, wherein the first peripheral region has a surface structure (8) on at least one of its flat surfaces that forms a file.

9. Machining tool according to claim 7 wherein the second region (2) has a smaller radial extent than the first region (1).

10. Machining tool according to claim 7 wherein a joint face (12) having a radial and an axial main extension component is formed at the transition.

11. Machining tool according to claim 10, wherein the cutting edge is an outer edge of the joint face or is formed on a cutting insert (16) attached thereto.

12. Machining tool according to claim 7 wherein the first region comprises two subregions that have different geometrical designs and are peripherally mutually spaced.

13. Machining tool according to claim 12, wherein a peripheral intermediate region (2′) formed between two subregions also has a cutting edge at the transition to an adjacent subregion and/or has a smaller radial extent than said subregion.

14. Machining tool according to claim 7 wherein a further cutting edge (14a, b) having at least one radial direction component is formed in the region of the transition between the first and the second region, the direction of extension of which cutting edge extends substantially in parallel with the disc plane.

15. Machining tool according to claim 7 that is designed, at a central disc region, so as to have a setting that permits rotatability about the disc axis thereof.

16. Toothing machining assembly comprising a chamfering tool (20) that is driven so as to rotate about the chamfering tool axis of said assembly and is intended for plastically deforming an end edge of a toothing, in particular during roller deburring, and comprising a machining tool (10, 10′) according to claim 7.

17. Toothing machining assembly according to claim 16, wherein the chamfering tool and the machining tool are positioned from the same side and have parallel axes of rotation in order to machine a toothing.

18. Toothing machining assembly according to claim 16 comprising a first common drive that brings about the radial infeed of both the chamfering tool and the machining tool, and/or a second common drive that brings about the axial displacement of both the chamfering tool and the machining tool.

19. Toothing machining assembly according to claim 16 wherein the chamfering tool and the machining tool can be driven independently of one another so as to rotate about their respective axes.

20. Toothing machining assembly according to claim 16 which assembly can occupy a first operating position in which the chamfering tool projects radially beyond the cutting tool with respect to the radial infeed direction, towards the toothing to be machined, and vice versa in a second operating position, it being possible to achieve a transition between the two operating positions by rotating the machining tool.

21. Toothing machining assembly according to claim 16 wherein the machining tool is axially spring-mounted relative to the chamfering tool.

22. Machine tool for machining toothings, comprising a gear-cutting tool (90) for producing a toothing on a workpiece, and comprising a machining tool (10, 10′) according to claim 7.

Description

[0031] Further details, features and advantages of the invention can be found in the following description, given with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

[0032] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a machine tool comprising a chamfering and deburring station,

[0033] FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of a machining tool,

[0034] FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a workpiece toothing and the machining engagement thereof in the machining tool from FIG. 2,

[0035] FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of a method sequence,

[0036] FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a further embodiment of a machining tool, and

[0037] FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a detail of a further embodiment of a machining tool.

[0038] The machine tool 100 that is shown only schematically in FIG. 1 is formed as a gear hobbing machine comprising a hobbing cutter 90. Said hobbing cutter is arranged on a tangential carriage 80 that is carried by a vertical carriage 70 in a manner mounted so as to be rotatable relative thereto (axis A). The vertical carriage 70 is in turn carried by the radial carriage 60 that can be slid along a machine bed 50 in order to change the axial spacing between the tool axis and the axis of a workpiece 30 to be machined that is clamped above a work table 40. Thus, three linear positioning axes X, Y, Z and one rotary positioning axis A are provided on the side of the primary tool, i.e. the hobbing cutter 90, which axes, just like the tool axis of rotation B and the workpiece axis of rotation C, are driven, in a manner CNC-controlled by a controller 99, by corresponding drives, e.g. direct drives. The positioning carriages shown in FIG. 1 are given by way of example, and the positioning axes required can also be achieved by structurally different carriage arrangements.

[0039] A chamfering and deburring station is arranged on the side that is diametrically opposed to the primary tool, the tools 20, 10 of which station can be moved towards and away from the workpiece 30, with respect to the radial direction X, by means of a common drive. In addition, the height of the chamfering and deburring station can be adjusted by a common drive. The chamfering and deburring station can also be positioned at a different point around the workpiece, provided that it has access to the workpiece.

[0040] The chamfering tool 20 shown at the top of FIG. 1 is formed as a typical roller deburring tool comprising two toothings that are spaced apart and that are each in rolling coupling engagement, on one end face, respectively, with the workpiece toothing under a contact pressure applied by the radial drive, and that produce a chamfer on the tooth end edges of the workpiece toothing in a known manner by means of deformation.

[0041] A disc-shaped deburring tool 10 is arranged axially below the chamfering tool 20 and so as to be spring-mounted relative thereto, which deburring tool is mounted so as to be able to be driven so as to rotate about the axis of rotation C7 thereof which, in this embodiment, extends coaxially to the axis of rotation C6 of the chamfering tool 20. It is also conceivable for the axes of rotation C7 and C6 to be differently positioned, e.g. in a parallel arrangement.

[0042] FIG. 2 more clearly shows an embodiment of a deburring tool 10. In this embodiment, the deburring tool 10 is formed, on both sides, as a filing disc over a peripheral region of approximately 270°, but not over 360°. Rather, the surface structure 8 formed as a file ends shortly before a radial cut-out in the (hollow) disc-like main body 6, which cut-out extends, in this embodiment, over approximately 60°. The main body 6 has a smaller radial dimension in this region 2 that is left after the cut-out than in the remaining region 1. A surface 12 at the transition between the regions 1 and 2 that extends substantially axially and radially and that is free on account of the cut-out comprises two oblique radially outer first edges 13a, b, since the peripheral surface of the main body 6 transitions from a planar shape into a conical shape between the region having the file structure 8 and the transition between the regions 1 and 2. In this case, the inclination of the first edges 13a, b corresponds to the inclination of the chamfer on the tooth tip end edge of the workpiece toothing. Horizontal second edges 14a, b adjoin the first edges 13a, b, which second edges originate from the cut in the main body 6 having the planar disc surface.

[0043] The deburring tool 10 can be positioned in various relative positions with respect to the workpiece 30 and in the process can carry out different functions, in particular carry out different types of machining on the workpiece.

[0044] The deburring tool 10 can thus be moved into a rotational position in which the file structure 8 thereof faces the workpiece and, following radial positioning, can be brought into a first machining engagement, by means of said file structure, with the end face of the workpiece toothing at the height thereof by means of axial infeed. In this first machining engagement, in which the deburring tool 10 can be stationary (or can also rotate slowly), secondary burrs can be very effectively removed from the end face of the workpiece toothing by being filed off. In this case, there is no danger of collision with the chamfering tool 20, since the radial dimension of said tool is smaller than that of the deburring tool 10 by approximately the radial depth of the file.

[0045] Furthermore, the deburring tool can be brought into a rotational position in which the radial vector of the surface 12 is directed towards the workpiece, and one of the first edges 13a, b is brought into a second machining engagement with the surface of the chamfer on the tooth tip end edge having the same inclination by means of axial and radial positioning. In this second machining engagement, excess material can be removed from the chamfer on the tooth tip end edge by means of turning, by rotation of the workpiece. Excess material of this kind may have been formed in the region close to the tooth tip on account of the chamfering tool 20, for example by forming the chamfer on the tooth end edge.

[0046] In the rotational position of the second machining engagement, the deburring tool 10 can, in addition, be moved to a modified height relative to the height of the second machining engagement, at which modified height the second edges 14a (b) come to rest at the same height as the end face of the toothing to be machined. In this position, when the radial infeed is appropriate, in a third machining engagement, e.g. already during production of the toothing, the primary tool can remove, by means of turning, a primary burr that has arisen on the (trailing) end face. Stresses on the file structure 8 are thus reduced in that said structure is mainly used to remove the secondary burrs.

[0047] Moreover, the deburring tool 10 carries out a function in a further rotational position in that the chamfering tool 20 can form the chamfer on the end edge of the toothing of the workpiece 3 without the workpiece 30 colliding with the deburring tool 10. In this rotational position, the region 2 of the main body 6 having a smaller radial extent faces the workpiece 30, e.g. in that the extensive centre of the region 2 is rotated towards the radial infeed axis. If, as in the embodiment shown, the region 2 has a radial extent that is smaller than that of the deburring tool 10 in the first region 1 by approximately twice the radial depth of the file structure 8, there is thus an a sufficient radial safety distance between the workpiece 30 and the deburring tool 10 when the chamfering tool 20 is in machining engagement with the toothing of the workpiece 30.

[0048] FIG. 3 again shows the workpiece 30 comprising a toothing 31 and a chamfer 33 on the tooth tip end edge, and also shows the second machining engagement of the deburring tool 10 in which the first edge 13a of the surface 12 frees the chamfer 33a on the tooth tip end face of the toothing 31 of excess material.

[0049] The method flow diagram in FIG. 4 shows machining of a toothing by means of the machine tool 100, which machining is a possible embodiment of the method of the invention.

[0050] In step S1, the workpiece 30 that is provided with a chamfer 33 on the tooth tip end edge is clamped on the workpiece spindle. In step S2, the toothing 31 is cut substantially to the complete toothing depth by means of hobbing using the hobbing cutter 90. In the case of a right-hand hobbing cutter 90, for example, the direction of rotation of the workpiece is anticlockwise (direction of rotation W1). In order to remove the primary burrs that form in the process, in this case the deburring tool 10 is in the third machining engagement, described above, with the workpiece 30.

[0051] In step S3, the chamfers on the tooth end edges 32 of the workpiece toothing 31 are produced by chamfering using the chamfering tool 20. For this purpose, the hobbing cutter 90 is retracted and the electronic coupling is transferred to the chamfering tool (direction of rotation W1). In order to achieve higher machining quality, the machining engagement can be repeated again after the direction of rotation has been reversed (direction of rotation W2).

[0052] In step S4, in the second machining engagement, described above, of the deburring tool, the chamfer on the tooth tip end edge is machined on the lower end face for example, while rotating the workpiece 30 in the same direction of rotation with which the step S3 was ended, and the second machining engagement is carried out (step S5) on this end face after the deburring tool 10 has been repositioned in order to machine the chamfer on the tooth tip end edge on the other end face. In this case, the rotational speed of the workpiece can be selected so as to be as high as possible, even maximum.

[0053] In step S6, the secondary burrs on the lower end face, for example, are removed by means of the above-described first machining engagement of the axially fed deburring tool 10 (filing off). In addition, the hobbing cutter 90 can simultaneously remove excess material from the tooth flanks in a second cut close to the lower end face, which excess material has also formed during chamfering of the tooth end edges. For this purpose, the direction of rotation is changed (direction of rotation W1) and the electronic coupling is again transferred to the hobbing cutter.

[0054] After the machining tools have been correspondingly repositioned, the same machining of step S6 is carried out on the other end face of the workpiece toothing 31 in step S7. During filing, the deburring tool is rotated slowly approximately about the angle that corresponds to the peripheral region of the file structure 8, in order to achieve uniform stress.

[0055] In step S8, after the tools have been withdrawn, the workpiece 30 that has now been soft-machined is removed from the workpiece spindle and transferred to further processing.

[0056] However, the machining sequence of upper and lower end face of the workpiece 30 can equally well be varied or reversed.

[0057] FIG. 2 further shows that the joint faces 12 between the first region 1 and the second region 2 are formed on the two peripheral ends of the second region 2, and therefore the above-described second and third machining engagement can take place in a suitable manner independently of the direction of rotation of the workpiece 30.

[0058] FIG. 5 shows a further embodiment of a deburring wheel 10′. Said wheel differs from the deburring tool 10 from FIG. 2 by a further region 2′ having a smaller radial extent that is diametrically opposed to the second region 2. The first region 1 is therefore interrupted in this portion and thus two further transitions are created having corresponding first edges 13′a, b and second edges 14′a, b. The peripheral extension of the regions 2, 2′ is approximately 50° in each case.

[0059] The advantage of this second embodiment is in the different design options of the two regions having the file structure 8′ on the one hand and/or of the two regions having a smaller radial dimension 2, 2′ with regard to the geometric design thereof on the other hand. In this case, the region 2 is designed in a manner suitable for the second and third machining engagement of one end face of the workpiece (and the (interfering) contours thereof), and the region 2′ and the transitions thereof are designed in a manner suitable for machining the workpiece on the other end face (and the (interfering) contours thereof), as is also the case for the file regions 8′, 8″. For example, the file region 8′ is suitable for just one machining side while, on the opposite side of the tool, the file region 8″ can be used only for the other machining side of the workpiece, for example on account of different shapes of the workpiece end faces, such as inclined end faces and/or radii and/or undercuts.

[0060] In addition, if necessary the two portions of the file structure 8 that are now separated can be differently formed, for example as a coarse file and a fine file. This is also possible in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2.

[0061] In the embodiments of the deburring tool 10, 10′ shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 5, the cutting edges 13a, b/14a, b are direct edges of the material of the main body 6. In contrast, in the embodiment shown in a detail in FIG. 6, a HM insert 16 is attached to the surface 12 for example by screwing, which insert carries the cutting edges 13″a, b. Thus, for example, a set made up of a plurality of HM inserts 16, 16′ of this kind, optionally having cutting edges that extend in geometrically different manners, can also be provided for a tool main body 6 having a file structure 8.

[0062] In addition, the chamfering tool 20 can also comprise a smooth region, as shown in drawing 8.2-5 on page 309 of the citation by Bausch or as is shown in drawing 8.2-6 on page 310, in particular if the removal of excess material on the tooth flanks is not intended to be carried out by the primary tool (30).

[0063] In addition, independently of any kind of machining of a chamfer on a tooth tip end face, a filing disc having a recess, i.e. a region having a smaller radial extent, has advantages in that the chamfering tool 20 and a deburring tool of this kind can also interact without the above-described second machining engagement, in particular in terms of the common infeed drives thereof and the collision-free positioning, in each case, of the inoperative tool.

[0064] The invention is not limited to the design features set out in the embodiments. Rather, the features set out in the following claims and in the above description can be essential to the implementation of the invention, in the various embodiments thereof, alone and in combination.