A recently granted patent (Publication Number: US11772175B2) describes a gear machining apparatus that is capable of efficiently and accurately machining gear profiles on workpieces. The apparatus ...

Invention of the gear-hobbing process about 150 years ago revolutionized not only gear fabrication, but also gear design. Basically, a hob or shaper cutter traverses the gear blank to generate teeth.

Gears fill the cases of automotive transmissions and are widely used in aerospace applications, but these simple tools are deceptively complex to manufacture. We thought it would be good to take a ...

The patent-pending uP-Gear process — co-developed by Heller Machine Tools and Voith Turbo — is aimed at manufacturers of vehicles, machines, or machine components, that machine large gears in low ...

A sea of completed pinion driveshafts. Note the quality of the tapered splines. Carl Kiekhaefer was a young engineer, just out of college when he bought a dying outboard-motor manufacturing company in ...