CYCLOIDAL EQUIDISTANT CURVED GEAR TRANSMISSION MECHANISM AND ITS DEVICE

Abstract: This invention involves a gear transmission mechanism and its device which incorporate double cycloidal equidistant conjugated gear mechanisms and devices, featuring in that a whole branch cyclic cycloidal equidistant curve at a side of the center of curvature of that cycloid is applied with the value of equidistance equal to or smaller than the radius (r) of the rolling circle (1) as the original tooth profile and thus conjugated mutually enveloping cycloidal equidistant curved gear mechanisms with one-tooth-difference, zero-tooth-­ difference or multi-tooth-difference can be made according to the requirement. Motor pumps and reducers made according to these mechanisms have the advantages of smaller sliding coefficient, smaller pressure angle, greater speed ratio range, lower noise, better strength, higher efficiency, more convenience in machining and lower cost. Therefore these mechanisms can be used to effectively replace the cycloidal lantern gearing with promising development of novel gear transmissions.

Description: This invention involves a gear transmission mechanism and its device and especially relates to the conjugated gear transmission mechanisms with internal and/or external gears of whole branch cyclic cycloidal equidistant curves and the various devices constituted by them. The well-known typical cycloidal gear transmission mechanisms are clock gears and cycloidal lantern gear mechanisms. The clock gears transmission power is low and can only be applied to instruments for motion transmission. The transmission principles of such gears are to use circular arcs instead of epicycloids and straight lines instead of hypocycloids for their gear tooth profiles: therefore, in clockwork they are actually an approximate of the cycloidal gearing, i.e. applying only a small portion of the cycloid. Thus, either in theory or in practice, smooth transmission cannot be maintained. Cycloidal lantern gear transmission mechanisms may transmit greater power with higher efficiency and also has to merit of compact in configuration and structure. They are suitable for gear oil pumps, speed reducers, etc. and have found wide application to various equipments used in national defence, mining, metallurgy, chemical engineering, textile and many other industries. However, the lantern gear constructions of the cycloidal lantern gear transmission mechanisms are complex and difficult to make, with the main drawback of manufacturing errors likely to accumulate and high accuracy is hard to attain. In the cycloidal lantern gear machines, the theoretical tooth profiles of the lantern gears are points uniformly distributed on the end surface instead of lines; therefore, the theoretical contours of the lantern gears and the cycloidal gears are a pair of conjugate curve mechanisms, their actual tooth profiles are circular arcs and pan-cycloids, unable to be complete envelope curves to each other. In manufacturing, they cannot be made by generating method but made upon tooth-by-tooth and piece-by-piece and then assembled. Moreover, the cycloidal lantern gears are meshing of circular arcs-pan-cycloids outside the instanteneous center line, their pressure angles and relative sliding speeds are relatively great (since the sliding coefficient of the lantern gear is greater, the lantern teeth are usually provided with sleeves to prevent excessive concentrated wear). At present, devices constituted by cycloidal lantern gears, such as rotor pumps, the cycloidal rotor are widely employed, domestically and abroad, with tooth profiles of circular arcs, pan-cycloids curtate epicycloidal inner equidistant curves. Since the theoretical contour of the external rotor of such tooth form is formed by points uniformly distributed on the circumference of the deteriorated cycloid, it cannot be referred to as a pair of conjugate curved gear mechanisms, in spite of the equidistant curve is a segment of a circular arc. As stated above, arcs of pan-cycloids cannot become complete enveloping curves with respect to each other because their coincidence depends on multi-point contacts instead of conjugation between tooth profiles of mutually enveloping curves. These drawbacks in meshing principle lead to a series of technical defects in the practical applications, especially, the external rotor tends to wear easily, increase of transmission efficiency is impossible, etc. Thus, restricting application in high-pressure oil pumps. In regard to speed reducers, the low efficiency of the cycloidal lantern gears' plunger-like output mechanism, the difficulty in manufacturing and the serious restrictions to the sizes of the rotational arm as impased by the gears of such a construction have significantly limited the ennancement to the transmission power and, thus, the broad application of the cycloidal lantern gears. It has already been proposed for instance in DE-C 574504, a gear tooth profile comprising an equidistant curve relative to a whole hypocycloïd. But this gear is meshing with an internal gear composed of rollers equiangularly spaced. In other known embodiments, for instance in FR-A-2 278 022, the inner gear has circular tooth portions or alternatively, the outer gear is composed of teeth having circular profiles or rollers and in this case the inner gear is formed of an equidistant epicycloid tooth profile, where the offset distance is equal to the radius of the rollers. The aim of the present invention is to improve and further develop currently these available cycloidal gear transmissions, in order to provide a variety of new types of cycloidal equidistant curved gear transmission mechanisms and devices. Therefore the invention has for its object a cycloidal equidistant curved gear transmission mechanism of the type comprising a pair of gears of which one is formed by an equidistant curve of a whole branch of cyclic cycloid, characterized in that the other gear is also an equidistant curve of a whole branch cyclic cycloid meshing with the first one gear, both gears being located at the same side of the center of curvature of the respective gear with the value of the equidistance being generally equal to or smaller than the radius of the rolling cercle. In the mechanism of the invention, the conjugate cycloidal equidistant curves of a pair of gears envelope each other and become internally meshing at the instantaneous center line, so as to overcome the drawbacks of the available techniques, further enhance the transmission deficiencies and performances and extend the scope of applications. The cycloidal equidistant curved gear transmission mechanisms can be utilized to produce oil motors and epicycloidal equidistant curved gear reducers of broader transmission ratio and rower. The said cycloidal equidistant curved gears employ a complete branch of cycloidal equidistant curve and in the realization of transmission of internal meshing at instantaneous line, either the actual or theoretical tooth profiles of the pair of transmission gears are conjugate curved gear mechanisms, entirely observing the fundamental principles of toothed gearing, i.e., the common normal to the gear profile contact points intersect the center line at a certain point, forming conjugate, mutual enveloping cycloidal equidistant curved gears that warrant a smooth transmission, the centers of curvature of the tooth profiles of a pair of cycloidal equidistant curved gears lay at the same side and concave and convex meshing is possible in order to increase the contact strength, greatly enhance the transmission performance, achieve more compact structure than that of cycloidal lantern gears and significantly lower the manufacturing cost and labor intensity by the application of the typical generating method. The conditions of formation of cycloidal equidistant curved gears' meshing are based upon the fact that in the relative motions of the two base circles and one rolling circle (the smallest) to form simultaneous, instantaneous center line mechanism, the three tangential circles at a point are in simple rolling contact and the pair of cycloids -- in general sense, the prolate or curtate epi- or hypocycloids -- as well as the equidistant curves formed relative to the two basic circles by a point cohered with the rolling circle and may locate within or outside or on the circumference of the rolling circle are all constituting enveloping curves to each others; whereas the meshing cyclic cycloidal conjugate curve mechanism may achieve continuous or multi-point meshing as far as the requirement of "three points in a same line", i.e., the instantaneous center point forming the small rolling circle, the instantaneous center point and the forming point forming the large rolling circle are located on the same straight line is satisfied. Now, by reference to Figures 1 to 21, the details of the specific constructions of this invention will be given. Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the generation of a cycloidal equidistant curved gear. Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the epicycloidal equidistant conjugate gear mechanism of internal meshing, one-tooth-difference, multi-point contacts. Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the hypocycloidal equidistant conjugate gear mechanism of internal meshing, one-tooth difference, multipoint contacts. Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram showing hypo-and epicycloidal equidistant conjugate helical gear mechanism of external meshing, single-point contact. Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a epicycloidal equidistant conjugate helical gear mechanism of internal meshing, multi-tooth difference and single-point contact. Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a hypocycloidal equidistant conjugate helical gear mechanism of internal meshing multi tooth-difference and single-point contact. Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram showing an epicycloidal equidistant curved gear mechanism of internal meshing zero-tooth-difference and multi-point contacts. (The distance is equal to the difference of the equidistances). Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram showing a hypocycloidal equidistant curved gear mechanism of internal meshing, zero-tooth difference and multi-point contacts (the center distance is equal to the difference of the equidistances). Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram showing the meshing mechanism of a hypocycloidal equidistant curved helical gear with a cycloidal equidistant curved helical rack. Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram showing the meshing transmission mechanism of a cycloidal equidistant curved worm and a wormgear. Fig. 11 is a schematic diagram showing the construction of a rotor pump (or oil motor) constituted by double hypocycloidal equidistant curved gears of one-tooth-difference and internal meshing. Fig. 12 is a schematic diagram showing the construction of a rotor pump (or oil motor) constituted by double epicycloidal equidistant curved gears of one-tooth-difference and internal meshing. Fig. 13 is a schematic diagram showing the construction of a rotor pump constituted by external meshing of hypo-and epi-cycloidal equidistant curved gears. Fig. 14 is a schematic diagram showing the construction and transmission of a planetary gear reducer constituted by epicycloidal equidistant curved binary internal and external gears with the intergear fixed and external gear output. Fig. 15 is a schematic diagram showing the construction and transmission of a planetary gear reducer constituted by epicycloidal equidistant curved binary internal and external gears with the external gear fixed and having internal gear output. Fig. 16 is a schematic diagram showing the construction and transmission of the epicycloidal equidistant binary internal meshing planetary gear reducer of binary planetary external gears of one-tooth difference. Fig. 17 is a force analysis diagram of the cycloidal equidistant curved gears with one-tooth difference and internal meshing. Fig. 18 is a schematic diagram showing the external machining of epicycloidal inner-equidistant external gears. Fig. 19 is a schematic diagram showing the compound machining of epicycloidal inner-equidistant external gears. Fig. 20 is a schematic diagram showing the internal machining of hypocycloidal outer-equidistant small circles. Fig. 21 is a schematic diagram showing the internal roll machining of hypocycloidal outer-equidistant large circles. In typical method of generating the cycloidal equidistant gear as shown in Fig. 1, the results of testing the transition machining the unextended-cycloidal -- with curtate coefficient or extension coefficient to unity equidistant tooth root showed that such transition machining occured at around the value of the equidistance smaller than or equal to the curvature radius that receiving the interference of the arc of the tooth root, i.e., the cycloidal initial equidistance, causing the curve of the tooth profile unable to transit smoothly and the generation of crests. Such a case tends to worsen as the equidistance is increased and vice versa. Fig. 1 shows rolling circle (1) with rolling radius r, basic circle (2) with radius r₂, basic circle (3) with radius r₃ and base line (4) with infinite radius. When rolling circle (1), base circles (2) and (3), and base line (4) are respectively in pure rolling as they are tangent at point P and are rotating around their respective centers O₁, O₂, O₃ and O₄, which is at an infinite distance (not shown), the point M on the rolling circle (1) will form epicycloids a₁, a₂, and a₃, hypocycloids b₁, b₂ and b₃ as well as cycloids c₁, c₂ and c₃ respectively on the base circles (1) and (2) and base line (4). It can be seen from the characteristics of the cycloids that the curvatures of the epicycloids are relatively large and those of the hypocycloids relatively small, whereas the curvatures of the cycloids are at the medium between them. At around the initial points of these three kinds of cycloid, for example, around points a₁ , b₂ and c₃, it is unable to obtain their equidistant curves. Instead the areas with radii of equidistances and initial points as center points will be obtained when the curvature radii are smaller than or equal to the values of the equidistance. The arc sections smaller than or equal to the values of the equidistances on the epicycloids a₁ , a₂ and a₃ are obviously larger, whereas those on the hypocycloids b₁, b₂ and b₃ smaller and those on the cycloids c₁, a₂ and c₃ at medium between them. Therefore, the equidistances of the hypocycloids are relatively smooth and perfect, whereas those of the epicycloids are not smooth and perfect enough transition machining a bit overdone and those of the cycloids still at the medium of them. When the radius r of the rolling circle is taken as the value of the equidistance for the cycloidas equidistant curve, its amount of interference -- i.e., the normal amount of the transition machining at the limit point -- is as much as 0.27% of the equidistance r. Thus, the interference of the epicycloidal equidistant curve is slightly larger than the value and that of the hypocycloid slightly smaller than the same. Now, we may see the equations of the cycloidal equidistant initial tooth profile (basic gear rack). When the radius r of the rolling circle is taken as the value of the equidistance, then The parameter ϑ in the formulas is the rotational angle of the rolling circle in degree (°). The coordinates of the limit point appearing transition machining are : x = ⊘.99374398 r y = -⊘.11167706r The value of the parameter corresponding to the limit point is: ϑ. = 38.734°. Hence, valuation of the parameter ϑ. in equations (1) should be 0.∿360 ° - ϑ. : namely 38.7 ° ∿321.3 °. The remaining portion of the cycloidal equidistant curve is the arc which the center point is at the cycloidal initial point and the value r of the equidistance as its radius. Such a characteristic is also applicable to the equidistant curve of the epi - and hypocycloids. The standard numerical series of the recommended radius (units in mm) of the rolling circle are 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. The equations of the profile, limit point, radius of curvature and the geometric calculation of the epicycloidal inner equidistant curved gear - the radius r of the rolling circle is taken for all values of the equidistance are: Tooth profile equations: The coordinates of the theoretical limit point and the actual limit point: The theoretical limit point is the epicycloidal equidistant curve and the theoretical curve: the curvature radius on the epicycloid equalized to the corresponding point of the equidistance r is the theoretical limit point of both the equidistant curve and the tooth-base arc (with radius r) and its parameter is: The actual limit point is the intersecting point between the tooth base arc (with radius r) and the epicycloidal inner equidistant curve, and its parameter is: With the value of the theoretical limit point ϑ resulted from formula (3) being taken as a criterion, the resolution of formula (3') obtained by try and error method gives the value ϑ of the actual limit point (intersection point), then it is used to substitute for formula (2) to obtain the coordinates of the intersecting point. The curvature radius of the epicycloidal equidistant curve: It can be seen from formula (4) that the lesser the number of tooth, the greater the epicycloidal curvature will be, and in turn, the lesser the number of tooth, the worse the transition mechanism will be. Therefore, it is advantageous to take a greater number for the tooth of the epicycloidal equidistant curved gear. The calculation formulas for different geometries of the epicycloidal equidistant curves are as follows: Radius of the basic circle (equal to pitch radii r₁ or r₂ ) r b = Z.r (5) Radius of the addendum circle (the equidistance is equal to the radius of the rolling circle) Outer gear R a = r b + r (6) Inner gear R a = r b - r (7) Radius of the root circle (the equidistance is equal to the radius r of the rolling circle) Outer gear R f = r b - r (8) Inner gear R f = r b + r (9) Center distance of the internal meshing: Helical angle of the helical gear: β ≧ tg⁻¹ πr b (11) Where b is the gear widthness. The calculation formulas for the tooth profile of the hypocycloidal equidistant curved gear: limit point curvature radius and the geometry (equidistance is taken as radius for the rolling circle). Equation of tooth profile: The coordinates of the theoretical and actual limit points: The parameter of the theoretical limit point: The parameter of the actual limit point (the intersecting point between radius r of the gear addendum are and the hypocycloidal external equidistant curve): The resulting theoretical limit point ϑ. obtained from formula (13) being taken as criterion for resolving, by try and error method, formula (13') to obtain the value ϑ. of the actual limit point (intersecting point), which is the used to substitute for formula (12) to obtain the coordinates of the intersecting point. The radius of curvature the hypocycloidal equidistant curved gear: It can be seen from formula (14) that the radius of curvature of the hypocycloidal curved gear decreases along with the reduction of the number of the tooth therefore. It is preferable to have less tooth number in order to achieve light transition machining to the tooth of the hypocycloidal equidistant curved gear. The calculation formulas for other geometries of the hypocycloidal equidistant curved gear: Radius of the basic circle r (equal to pitch radius) r = Zr Radius of addendum circle (radius r of rolling circle as equidistance) External gear R a = r b + r (16) Internal gear R a = r B + r (17) Radius of root circle (radius r of the rolling circle as equidistance) External gear R f = r b - r (18) Internal gear R f = r b + r (19) Center distance of internal meshing Helical angle of the helical gear β = tg⁻¹ πr b (21) Where b as gear widthness. Fig. 4 and Fig. 13 are the schematic diagrams of the transmission mechanisms of a pair of cycloidal equidistant gears meshing externally, where the tooth profile (70) of an epicycloidal inner equidistant curved gears (7) (9) and the tooth profile (80) of hypocycloidal outer equidistant curved gears (8) (10) are at mutual conjugation: whereas at the internal meshing, the conjugations are between the tooth profiles (50, 70) of the two epicycloidal inner equidistant curved gears (5, 7) as shown in Fig. 2 and between the tooth profiles (60, 80) of the two hypocycloidal outer equidistant curved gears (6,0) as shown in Fig. 3 with tooth number difference to all of the said gears larger than and/or equal to 1. For internal meshing with tooth number difference of larger than one tooth between the external meshing and the gear, the skew tooth is applied. The example as shown in Fig. 4 mentioned above is the skew tooth with tooth number difference larger than one tooth. Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 are the conjugated gear mechanisms of the internal meshing, tooth-number-difference larger than one tooth, epicycloidal equidistant helical tooth multi-tooth-difference internal meshing, one point contacting gears (9,11) and the hypocycloidal equidistant helical tooth, multi-tooth-difference internal meshing, one point contacting gears (10, 12), respectively. In general, their cross section tooth profiles are epicycloidal equidistant curves. In regard to hypo-and epicycloidal equidistant zero tooth difference internal meshing conjugated gear mechanism of the present invention, its center equidistance as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the tooth profile curves of these mechanism must also be in curves of equidistance and enveloping each other as well as producing multi-point contacts in order to meet the requirements. In practical applications, about one half of the gears participate in meshing and about one fourth of the gears receiving force as showed by test, indicating quite favorable conditions. In case of external meshing and tooth number difference less than one tooth, the internal meshing is generally with helical gears as shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 9 is a helical gear (12) and helical gear rack (13) and Fig. 10 is a worm gear (14) and a worm (15) mechanisms, respectively. Double cycloid equidistant gear pumps and oil motors represent specific embodiments of the cycloidal equidistant gear mechanism which is constituted on the basis of arc-pancycloidal rotor pump and by modifying the arc tooth profile therein with the incorporation of gears having conjugated and mutually envelopable cycloidal equidistant tooth forms. Fig. 11 is a kind of double hypocycloidal equidistant one tooth difference meshing gear rotor pump (or oil motor), wherein the hypocycloidal equidistant inner rotor's external gear (8) fixed on axis (33), external rotor's inner gear (6) locates in the mid-pump plate (36) is fixed with positioning pins (38) etc., and the tooth profiles of the external rotor (6) and internal rotor (8) are corresponding each other leaving an eccentricity. The rotation axis (33) produces roll-friction to rotate the internal rotor along the external rotor by virtue of its sliding on the bearing (34). Thus the input of low pressure oil is rotary compressed to output high pressure oil (not shown in the diagram). Fig. 12 is a kind of double epicycloidal equidistant one tooth-number-difference inner meshing gear pump (or oil motor), wherein the variations in structure of the epicycloidal equidistant internal rotor (7) and the epicycloidal equidistant external rotor (5) are, by and large, similar to Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is a kind of hypo-and epicycloidal equidistant external meshing gear-rotor pump which, among other things, basically is similar to the conventional gear pump, except incorporating the epicycloidal equidistant gear (7) and hypocycloidal equidistant line (8) of the present invention. Such a pump should be in parallel with evolute gear and applied singly as delivery pumping. Since such double cycloidal rotor pumps or oil motors are reasonable and perfect in meshings, as well as significantly exceeding the performance merit showed in technical index of the arc-pancycloidal rotor pumps or oil motors and, in addition, applicable to external meshings (with zero tooth-number-difference in this case), it is quite promising that in the near future, the double cycloidal equidistant rotor pumps will take the place of conventional rotor pumps or oil motors. As mentioned above, the rotor pumps are incorporating double cycloidal equidistant conjugated tooth profiles with internal and external rotors of cycloidal equidistant line. They have the advantages of increased coincidence due to multiple point contacts, excellent stability, small sliding coefficient, good sealing between tooth profiles, small pressure angle, powerful transmission force and high efficiency, therefore, are suitable for high pressure oil pumps. The force analysis of the internal meshing cycloidal equidistant countering gears with one-tooth-number-difference. The normal force F x of the tooth profile contact point. As shown in Fig. 17, the internal gear (5) is taken as the separator, and under the action of the external torque T, the external gear (7) causes the surpressed gears C₁, C₂... C x to receive at contact points K₁, K₂... K x respectively normal forces F, F ... F respectively, which normal angles are ϑ₁, ϑ₂ .... ϑ x respectively. By reduction So, the equivalent meshing angle This meshing angle is in value far smaller than the evoluted line one tooth-number-difference internal meshing (i.e. 56°) and also smaller the cycloidal lantern gear transmission angle (∼40°). In addition, along with the increase of the tooth-side clearance and the slacken of the normal force away from the pitch point, the equivalent meshing angle α can be reduced further. The key technology of the reducer of present invention is laying upon the reasonable application of the high performance cycloidal equidistant gears and the successful designing. So for, three kinds of output mechanisms have seen established ; they are the internal and external binary planetary one tooth-number-difference output mechanism and the internal and external binary planetary zero tooth-number-difference output mechanism and the internal meshing 2K-H positive mechanism of binary external planetary gears. These three kinds of output mechanism are respectively suitable for different ranges of transmission ratio, i.e., i≈10∼25, i≈20∼50, i≈50∼2000. The first as shown in Fig. 4 is the epicycloidal equidistant gear reducer with the external gear (7) as output, internal gear (5) stationary and the planetary gear as the binary internal external gears (5',7'). The transmission is of two kinds, one as one tooth-difference binary internal meshing (Fig. 14a) and the other as a pair of zero-tooth-difference or one-by-one-tooth difference (Fig. 14b). The reducer formed by them is as shown in Fig. 14c. The second as shown in Fig. 15 is the epicycloidal equidistant gear reducer with the external gear (7) stationary the internal (5) output and the planetary gears as binary internal and external gears (5', 7'). The transmission is also divided into two kinds, one as one tooth-difference binary internal meshing (Fig. 15a) and the other as a pair of zero tooth-difference or one-by-one tooth-difference (Fig. 15b). The reducer device formed by them is as shown in Fig. 15b. The third as shown in Fig. 16 is the planetary gear reducer with the planetary gears as binary external gear (7,7') the internal gear (5) stationary and the internal gear (7') output. Fig. 16a is the transmission diagram. Fig. 16b is the construction diagram of such device. Gears (5,7) and (5', 7') are all one tooth-difference and it is the typical 2K-H position device. The specific constructions of the epicycloidal equidistant gears' planetary reducers are shown in figures 14c, 15c and 16b. In addition to internal and external gears, there are also included retainer (25), body-base (26), output shaft (27), small end cover (28), axle sleeve (29), eccentric sleeve (35), large end cover (31), input shaft (32), etc. All these parts are shaping alike except for slight differences in specific construction dimensions. In all of these diagrams, each internal and external gear locates at between the bodybase (26) and large end cover (31). The stationary internal gear (5) or external gear (7) are fastened at between the body base (26) and large end cover (3) by means of studs or screws. Binary internal and external gears (5', 7'), are mounted through bearings and excentric sleeve (30) to the input shaft (32), both ends of the shaft are supported with bearings and the output internal and external gears (5) or (7) are integrated by key joint with the output shaf (21). The example as shown in Fig. 14 is the most typical construction. The extended input shaft (12) is cohered with eccentric sleeve (30) and supported by both bearings that located at the large end cover (31) and that inlaid in the flange at right end of the output shaft (27), respectively. At the external surface of the eccentric sleeve is mounted with a pair of rotational arm bearings, which outer circle is mounted with a pair of cohered planetary gears, i.e., the planetary external gear (7) and internal gear (5'). When the input shaft (32) rotates on the stationary axis and is driving the eccentric sleeve to rotate as well as directing the binary planetary gears to make plane movement, the absolute motion of the planetary gears will be restrained by the internal sun gear (5) and having a defined plane movement (self-spinning plus common rotation). Finally, such a movement may be output by the external sungear (7') meshed with the planetary internal gear (4), therefore, the output rotation of the output shaft (27) will be the planetary gear's absolute rotation if zero tooth-difference is applied to gears 3 and 4, and will be one-half of the absolute rotation of the planetary gear if one tooth-difference is applied to gears (7') and (5'). The sungear (7') and the output shaft (27) may either be integretated or jointed through flange. The internal sun gear (5) is attached to the body-base (26) as a part of the housing through the flange and the large end cover (31) is cohered to the large sun gear (5), also through flange. The output shaft (27) is supported at the body-base (26) using two bearings and it is in coaxial line with the output shaft (32).

Claims: A cycloidal equidistant curved gear transmission mechanism comprising a pair of gears of which one is formed by an equidistant curve of a whole branch of cyclic cycloid, characterized in that the other gear is also an equidistant curve of a whole branch cyclic cycloid meshing with the first one gear, both gears being located at the same side of the center of curvature of the respective gear with the value of the equidistance being generally equal to or smaller than the radius of the rolling cercle. The gear transmission as claimed in claim 1 characterized in that in external meshing, an epicycloidal inner-equidistant curved gear and the tooth profile of a hypocycloidal outer-equidistant curved gear are conjugated whereas in internal meshing both epicycloidal inner-equidistant curved gears and both hypocycloidal outer-equidistant curved gears are respectively conjugated, in both cases the difference of tooth number being greater than or equal to unity (Fig. 5 and 6). The gear transmission as claimed in claim 2 characterized in that the said external meshing and internal meshing with difference of tooth number greater than unity require helical gears and worm screw with cross section of their tooth profiles being the hypo- and epi-cycloidal equidistant curves. The gear transmission as claimed in claim 3 characterized in that the epicycloidal gears have a large tooth number and the hypocycloidal gears a small number. The gear transmission as claimed in claims 1, 2 or 4 characterized in that, for gears with "0" tooth difference, the center distance between the two gears is the difference of the equidistances. The gear transmission as claimed in claims 1, 2, 3 or 5 characterized in that the said gears with tooth difference equal to unity are the epicycloidal equidistant, internal meshing with tooth-difference of one tooth, conjugated gear mechanism and the hypocycloidal equidistant, internal meshing with tooth-difference of one tooth, conjugated gear mechanism. The gear transmission as claimed in claims 1, 2 or 5 characterized in that the said gears with tooth difference equal to "0" are the epicycloidal equidistant, internal meshing with zero-tooth-difference conjugated gear mechanism and the hypocycloidal equidistant, internal meshing with zero-tooth-difference, conjugated gear mechanism. The gear transmission as claimed in claim 3 characterized in that the said epi-or hypo-cycloidal equidistant curved with one-tooth-difference conjugated gear mechanism are used as rotor pump mechanism (or oil motor mechanism) in which the external gear (8) or (7) mounted on shaft (33) slidably or rollably supported through bearings (34), the internal gear (6) or (5) mounted in the midpump-plate and fixed to the back and front pump-plates (35) and (37) by positioning pins (38), bolts, etc., with the pump body having oil inlet and outlet openings. The gear transmission as claimed in claim 3 characterized in that the said hypo-or epi-cycloidal equidistant curved gears with zero-tooth-difference are suitable for gear rotor pumps. Epicycloidal equidistant planetary reducer device including a gear transmission as claimed in claim 1 characterized in that the external gear (7) is the output and the internal gear (5) is fixed between the body (26) and the cover (31) with the internal and external binary planetary gears (5',7') flexibly mounted on the eccentric bushing (30) that is fastened by rims to the input shaft (32), with both ends supported by bearings and that the said internal gear (5) and external gear (7') as well as those of (5') and (7), respectively, are of one-tooth-difference or one-to-one or one-to-zero-tooth-difference. Reducer device as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that the external gear (7) is fixed and the internal gear (5) is output. Reducer device as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that the said planetary gears (7,7') are binary external gears with internal gears (5) fixed and (5') output, respectively, and the internal gear (5) and external gear (7) as well as those of (5') and (7') are respectively one-tooth-difference.

Inventors: PEIJI, SHEN
Applicants: PEIJI, SHEN
Application year: 1987
Main classification: F16H1
IPC codes: F16H1, F16H55