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Lecture 7 - Helical Gears

Helical gears have teeth that are inclined to the axis of rotation, providing more gradual engagement than spur gears and less impact, stress, and noise. They can transmit power between non-parallel shafts and develop thrust loads and bending couples. The shape of each tooth is an involute helicoid. Key geometry includes the helix angle, pitch, pitch cylinder, and normal plane. Force analysis accounts for thrust, radial, axial, and bending forces. Examples are used to demonstrate how to apply the geometry and force equations.

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Lecture 7 - Helical Gears

Helical gears have teeth that are inclined to the axis of rotation, providing more gradual engagement than spur gears and less impact, stress, and noise. They can transmit power between non-parallel shafts and develop thrust loads and bending couples. The shape of each tooth is an involute helicoid. Key geometry includes the helix angle, pitch, pitch cylinder, and normal plane. Force analysis accounts for thrust, radial, axial, and bending forces. Examples are used to demonstrate how to apply the geometry and force equations.

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Helical Gears

Force Analysis

Lecture 7
helical gears

• same applications as spur gears, but also for


nonparallel shafts
• teeth
› inclined to axis of rotation
› more gradual engagement of teeth
» lless iimpactt – lless stress
t d lless noise
and i
› develop thrust loads and bending couples
» must account for
• select hand to minimize thrust
› hands – same helix angle, opposite hands
helical gears – geometry/nomenclature

• shape of tooth is involute helicoid


› think of as rotated spur gear laminations – approach helical gear as
thickness of laminations decreases
pn  p cos

helical gears – geometry/nomenclature

• helix angle, 
• two planes:
› plane of rotation RR
» p, 
(Figure 16.4) [1] › normal plane NN
» pn, n
› other relations from geometry:

pn  p cos
Pn  P
cos
dN N
P Pn cos
axial overlap if b>= pa
pa  p
tan
min: b>=1.15pa
often: b>=2pa

tan n  tan  cos


pn  p cos

helical gears – geometry/nomenclature

• normal plane intersects pitch


cylinder in an ellipse
• shape of tooth in normal plane
is almost same as shape of
spur gear tooth with radius Re
of ellipse
• can define equivalent/virtual
number of teeth from geometry
Ne  N
cos3 
• used for design for strength
(later)
helical gears – force analysis

Fr  Ft tan 
Fa  Ft tan
 Ft
Ft  33000W Fb 
V cos
 Fb Ft
Ft  W F 
V cos n cos cos n
helical gears – force analysis

Fr  F sin n

Fa  F cos n sin

Fa  F cos n sin
note: replace W with F in figure
helical gears – example problem

 Example 13-7, Shigley and Mischke, 5th edition


questions?

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