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Parametric analysis of the end face engagement worm gear

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A novel specific type of worm drive, so-called end face engagement worm gear(EFEWD), is originally presented to minimize or overcome the gear backlash. Different factors, including the three different types, contact curves, tooth profile, lubrication angle and the induced normal curvature are taken into account to investigate the meshing characteristics and create the profile of a novel specific type of worm drive through mathematical models and theoretical analysis. The tooth of the worm wheel is very specific with the sine-shaped tooth which is located at the alveolus of the worm and the tooth profile of a worm is generated by the meshing movement of the worm wheel with the sine-shaped tooth, but just the end face of the worm(with three different typical meshing types) is adapted to meshing, and therefore an extraordinary manufacturing methods is used to generate the profile of the end face engagement worm. The research results indicates that the bearing contacts of the generated conjugate hourglass worm gear set are in line contacts, with certain advantages of no-backlash, high precision and high operating efficiency over other gears and gear systems besides the end face engagement worm gear drive may improve bearing contact, reduce the level of transmission errors and lessen the sensitivity to errors of alignment. Also, the end face engagement worm can be easily made with superior meshing and lubrication performance compared with the conventional techniques. In particular, the meshing and lubrication performance of the end face engagement worm gear by using the end face to meshing can be increased over 10% and 7%, respectively. This investigate is expect to provide a new insight on the design of the future no-backlash worm drive for industry.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Xihua University, Chengdu, 610039, China

    Xingqiao Deng, Jinge Wang & Shouan Chen

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu Industrial Vocational Technical College, Chengdu, 610218, China

    Jueling Wang

  3. School of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China

    Jie Yang

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 51305356), Spring Sunshine Plan of Ministry of Education of China(Grant No. 14202505), and Talent Introduction of Xihua University, China(Grant No. Z1220217)

DENG Xingqiao, born in 1982, is currently an associate professor at Xihua University, China, in 2012. He received his PhD degree from Sichuan University, China, in 2011. His research interests include mechanical transmission and car crash simulations.

WANG Jueling, born in 1957, is currently an associate professor at Chengdu Industrial Vocational Technical College, China, in 1996. He received his master degree from Chengdu University of Technology, China, in 2003. His research interests include mechanical transmission.

WANG Jinge, born in 1957, is currently a professor at Xihua University, China. He received his PhD degree from Chongqing University, China, in 1992. His research interests include mechanical transmission and robotics.

CHEN Shouan, born in 1988, is currently a master candidate at Xihua University, China, in 2012.

YANG Jie, born in 1985, is currently a PhD candidate at Sichuan University, China, in 2013.

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Deng, X., Wang, J., Wang, J. et al. Parametric analysis of the end face engagement worm gear. Chin. J. Mech. Eng. 28, 1177–1185 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3901/CJME.2015.0708.089

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