Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gear grinding unit
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Application No.: US14781875Application Date: 2014-07-07
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Publication No.: US09656338B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: Takahiko Nuriya , Shoichi Morioka
- Applicant: NITOLEX CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Chitagun, Aichi
- Assignee: NITOLEX CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NITOLEX CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chitagun, Aichi
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz & Volek PC
- Priority: JP2013-144442 20130710
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/068029 WO 20140707
- International Announcement: WO2015/005269 WO 20150115
- Main IPC: B23F21/02
- IPC: B23F21/02 ; B24D13/02

Abstract:
A gear grinding unit, capable of grinding a tooth flank of a gear to have fine surface roughness without requiring any special shaping work such as dressing, includes a threaded grinding part which is rotatable around a rotation axis (S1) and engages with a tooth of a gear to be ground. Through a rotational motion of the threaded grinding part, a tooth flank of the gear is ground. The threaded grinding part includes a plurality of flexible abrasive sheets each including a virtual circle having a diameter that equals a root diameter (DA) of the threaded grinding part and a bulge part bulging radially outward from the virtual circle. With the bulge parts of the abrasive sheets mutually shifted around the rotation axis (S1), the abrasive sheets are overlapped along the rotation axis (S1) to form the threaded grinding part.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160059332A1 GEAR GRINDING UNIT Public/Granted day:2016-03-03
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