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An Investigation Of Contact Path And Kinematic Error Of Face-Gear Drives, Tsang-Dong Chung, Yun-Yuan Chang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology

Based on the face-gear generation process, the analytical geometry of face-gear drive with its mathematical model for tooth contact analysis of face-gear and spur pinion meshing was derived. In this paper, contact path and transmission error due to assembly misalignment are analyzed by using the proposed mathematical model and the tooth contact analysis. The effects of assembly error along the axis of face-gear, misalignment of crossed and angular displacement between axes of a spur pinion and a face-gear are all investigated. The results are illustrated by several examples