Author(s)

Nan Yang^1,2*, Dawei Zhang¹, Yanling Tian¹

¹School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
²Tianjin Key Laboratory of the Design and Intelligent Control of the Advanced Mechatronical System, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China.

A novel CAD method for tooth profile based on the gearing feature has been proposed in this paper, and this method could be applied to the variable transmission ratio and three-dimension situation. The two pitch curves of the two gears can be generated due to the given transmission ratio. The tooth profile curves are formed in each coordinate system of its pitch curve by the gearing process. Finally, the tooth profile could be extracted and translated into a real dimension by CAD method. It is provided a simply thought for tooth profile design to avoid so much complicated mathematical reasoning.

Computer-Aided Design, Computational Geometry, Gear Design, Gear Geometry

Yang, N. , Zhang, D. and Tian, Y. (2015) Tooth Surface Design for Variable Transmission Ratio Bevel Gearing. Applied Mathematics, 6, 1685-1695. doi: 10.4236/am.2015.610150.