Patent ID: 9573210
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B23C,B23F,Y10T

Claim:
1. A gear cutting machine for gear cutting a toothed workpiece having an involute or cycloid toothing by form milling, the gear cutting machine comprising: at least one cutter head for mounting at least one end mill having an axis, wherein one or more of the cutter head or the end mill are adjustable and wherein the end mill axis is alignable such that it is a tangent to a machined flank of the workpiece, with an outer contour of the end mill being configured to engage an entire contour of a tooth flank of an involute or cycloid tooth from a tooth base to a tooth head, the outer contour of the end mill having an almost unchanging diameter profile in a direction of the end mill axis such that an approximately constant cutting speed is achieved over a total length of the tooth flank, and wherein the outer contour of the end mill corresponds to the tooth flank contour from the tooth base to the tooth head and is shaped for manufacturing/processing the involute or cycloid toothing.