Small Bevel Gears Made Easy
By 2030, the global robotics market size is expected to range anywhere from $160 billion to $260 billion. The world is expecting robots to do a lot of the “heavy lifting” going forward. But with demand pressuring supply for many of the essential components, new production technologies are needed to keep pace. Nowhere is this truer than for the smaller, high-precision spiral and hypoid bevel gears that play such a critical role in transmitting power and delivering precise, reliable movement in increasingly complex, multiaxis robotic systems.
Bevel Gear Speed Increasers
For cylindrical gears, speed-increasing transmission stages are well known, and regarding profile shift, preferred pressure angles, and helix angles a set of rules applies, which is not much different from the rules for speed reducers. It is important to acknowledge that basically a speed increaser has to be designed just like a speed reducer, but then the gear with the lower number of teeth is the output. Of course, the torque and the speed of the gear with the lower number of teeth (output) and the gear with the higher number of teeth (input) must be the same as if this transmission was used as a speed reducer. In the case of straight bevel gears, spiral bevel gears, and hypoid gears the same rules apply with some additions. Spiral bevel gears have many applications as speed increasers.
See the Big Picture for Small Gears
New Phoenix® 100C Bevel Gear Cutting Machine for dry and wet cutting of straight and spiral bevel gears up to 100 mm (3.94”) OD combines maximum productivity and quality with ease of operation and minimum floorspace – with or without integrated automation. Complemented by the intuitive GEMS® HMI, precision workholding, and different cutter systems, it lets you focus on the big picture.
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