Download or read book Face Gear Drive with Helical Involute Pinion written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new type of face-gear drive with intersected axes of rotation formed by a helical involute pinion and conjugated face-gear has been investigated. Generation of face-gears by a shaper free of undercutting and pointing has been investigated. A new method of grinding or cutting of face-gears by a worm of special shape has been developed. A computerized design procedure has been developed to avoid undercutting and pointing by a shaper or by a generating worm. Also, a method to determine the limitations of the helix angle magnitude has been developed. The method provides a localization of the bearing contact to reduce the shift of bearing contact caused by misalignment. The analytical method provides a simulation of the meshing and contact of misaligned gear drives. An automatic mesh generation method has been developed and used to conduct a 3D contact stress analysis of several teeth. The theory developed is illustrated with several examples.Litvin, Faydor L. and Fuentes, Alfonso and Gonzalez-Perez, Ignacio and Piscopo, Alessandro and Ruzziconi, PaoloGlenn Research CenterSHAPERS; GEAR TEETH; TRANSMISSIONS (MACHINE ELEMENTS); STRESS ANALYSIS; SINGULARITY (MATHEMATICS); HELICES; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; AXES OF ROTATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN; CONJUGATION; MISALIGNMENT; POSITION (LOCATION); MECHANICAL DRIVES; HELICOPTERS; GRID GENERATION (MATHEMATICS)