A speed reduction device employing a bevel gear train and a method for making same

摘要

speed reduction device has a casing, an input shaft 11 and an output shaft 16. The input shaft 11 has an inclined Intermediate shaft portion 12 carrying a nutating gear 13 having bevel gear teeth 13a and 13b on its opposite end faces. The output shaft 16 has a follower bevel gear 17. A fixed bevel gear 15, concentric with the input shaft, meshes with the bevel gear teeth 13a of the nutating gear at its input side. The follower bevel gear 17 meshes with the bevel gear teeth 13b of the nutating gear at its output side. All the above mentioned gears have different numbers of teeth. The fixed bevel gear 15 and the follower bevel gear 17 have their pitch cone angles formed at larger angles than those ordinarily calculated, and also have their tooth profiles shaped such that their tooth surfaces converge at a point outward of the vertices of their pitch cones. The bevel gear teeth 13a, 13b of the nutating gear having their pitch cone angles formed at smaller angles than those ordinarily calculated and also having their tooth profiles shaped such that their tooth surfaces converge at a point inward of the vertices of their pitch cones. Each of the above mentioned meshing pairs of gears have a tooth thickness extending along the tooth trace at an equal angle. At least one of the meshing gears has a spherically involuted tooth profile.