Patent ID: 11867271
Assignee: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATION
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  B | IPC B  F

Claim 0:
1. A gear, comprising:
a metallic gear hub consisting of a monolithic gear core having an axis of rotation and metallic gear teeth that have roll, pitch and yaw axes and are smaller than a final gear teeth size of the gear;
wherein the metallic gear teeth are not co-planar with each other such that at least some of the metallic gear teeth are offset from each other, and the metallic gear teeth are oriented at a roll angle relative to the axis, and the roll angle is in a range of about 30 degrees to about 60 degrees relative to neutral; and
a polymer layer on the metallic gear teeth to form polymer gear teeth on the metallic gear teeth, wherein the polymer gear teeth comprise the final gear teeth size of the gear, such that the metallic gear hub is configured to fully support a contact line of a mating gear.