Patent ID: 8670694
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: F16H,G03G

Abstract:
1. A gear drive apparatus comprising: a gear train including a plurality of gears; a holding unit accommodating the gear train and a lubricant to be supplied to tooth flanks of each of the plurality of gears, the holding unit including an inlet opening from which the lubricant is poured; and a plugging unit for plugging up the inlet opening, wherein the lubricant from the inlet opening is supplied to an engagement area where two gears of the plurality of gears are engaged with each other, or to a tooth flank area of one of the two gears at an upstream part from the engagement area along a rotational direction of the one of the two gears, and wherein the plugging unit is a screw and the inlet opening is a screw hole in which the screw is fastened.