Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wave generator of strain wave gearing device
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Application No.: US17282077Application Date: 2018-11-22
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Publication No.: US11649886B2Publication Date: 2023-05-16
- Inventor: Daisuke Orii , Syuhei Kobayashi , Norio Shirokoshi , Hiroshi Yamazaki
- Applicant: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
- Current Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/043253 2018.11.22
- International Announcement: WO2020/105187A 2020.05.28
- Date entered country: 2021-04-01
- Main IPC: F16H49/00
- IPC: F16H49/00 ; F16C19/04 ; F16H1/32

Abstract:
An outer-ring lubrication groove pattern formed in an outer-race raceway surface and an inner-race lubrication groove pattern formed in an inner-race raceway surface of a wave generator bearing of a strain wave gearing device are patterns in which linear lubrication grooves having very small widths and depths of several micrometers or less are arranged at fine pitches of several micrometers or less. The inner-race lubrication groove pattern includes a second groove pattern formed in long-axis-side inner-race raceway surface portions to hold the lubricant, and a first groove pattern formed in short-axis-side inner-race raceway surface portions to hold the lubricant and guide the lubricant to the second groove pattern. This configuration improves the contact state between balls and the inner-race and outer-race raceway surfaces of the wave generator bearing, thus reducing the coefficient of friction therebetween.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210372515A1 WAVE GENERATOR OF STRAIN WAVE GEARING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2021-12-02
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