Patent ID: 7974730

Claim:
A method for the chip-removing machining of the tooth flanks of a gear wheel having n teeth and n tooth gaps on a multiaxis grinding machine, a grinding disc, which may be dressed, being used for the machining and one of the n tooth gaps after another being machined using this grinding disc in a single indexing method, in that the grinding disc plunges into each of the n tooth gaps up to a predefined plunging depth (T 1 ), characterized in that, if it is a freshly dressed grinding disc, a) at the beginning of the machining of the gear wheel, the grinding disc plunges using a predefined first restraint into m of the n tooth gaps in relation to the normal predefined plunging depth, to pre-machine these m tooth gaps, whereby m=1, 2, or 3 and m<n, b) the remaining n−m tooth gaps are subsequently machined using the predefined plunging depth (T 1 ), and c) finally the m tooth gaps are once again post-machined using the grinding disc, the grinding disc plunging into these m tooth gaps during this post-machining using a predefined second restraint of the normal predefined plunging depth.