Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
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I am working as an intern on a kinematics exhibit for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and need to create a pair of elliptical gears. I am having trouble getting two ellipses (with or without teeth) to stay tangent to each other throughout a full revolution when mounted on fixed centers (not foci). Is there a standard formula for the ellipse itself? Is it possible that it isnt an ellipse at all?(a spline maybe)I am using mastercam and solidworks to create the geometry and toolpaths.





RE: Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
http://www.cunningham-ind.com/index.htm
RE: Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
See for example :
http://www.cunningham-ind.com/ellipt.htm
But I must confess I have no clue what a theoretically correct tooth form would be like, or how it might be easily generated with ordinary machinery, other than edm or stereolithography. Most probably, for many purposes you could get by with an involute approximation.
RE: Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
I picked this up over at: http://www.decidedlyodd.com/cw/cs285/log.html
"A book that talks about non-circular gears. Gear Geometry and Applied Theory by Faydor L. Litvin, 1994, published by Prentice Hall.
The evolute for non-circular gears is dependent upon the circumference of the gear. Left and right sides of the tooth may have different evolutes. These could be generated, but I may just do an approximation to save on the integrals. The evolute for a circle of corresponding curvature radius at point on the gear where the tooth is to be added, can be used to approximate the actual evolute."
I met some of the old original gear heads in Chicago several years back. They used to get together and play poker, and my gear vendor took me by to meet a few of them. Some of them had worked out the math for the volute pattern for oval and other odd gear jobs by hand.
RE: Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
RE: Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
Check out "Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook" by Chironis and Sclater
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It has a section on "noncircular gears"
Some gear types are:
1. Two ellipses rotating about a foci
2. 2nd order elliptical gears rotating about their geometric centers
3. Eccentric circular gear rotating with its conjugate
Googling some of the gear types might be useful.
RE: Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
Other variants of Noncircular Gears Systems from the same book at this URL, it's a large picture, so I've put it here.
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Try this site as well, there is a description of how the tooth profiles were found for each radius, and how they were cut.
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RE: Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
is identical to images in "Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook".
RE: Creation of geometry for elliptical gears
As Nicholas P. Chironis edited the 1965 book that I referred to, I'm not surprised that some parts of that earlier work are used in the book that is available at Amazon, for a reduced price of $72.78.
The 1965 book is virtually all mechanically based, copies of it can be bought at abebooks.com, starting at $30.00