Noncircular Gears: Design and Generation

ISBN-13: 9780521761703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 204 str.

Feydor Litvin; Alfonso Fuentes; Ignacio Gonzalez

Opis

Examines the theory of the design and generation of noncircular gears that are applied in automatic machines and instruments.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to theory of gearing, design, and generation of noncircular gears; 2. Centrodes of noncircular gears; 3. Evolutes and involutes; 4. Elliptical gears and gear drives; 5. Generation of planar and helical elliptical gears; 6. Design of gear drives formed by eccentric circular gear and conjugated noncircular gear; 7. Design of internal noncircular gears; 8. Application for design of planetary gear train with noncircular and circular gears; 9. Transformation of rotation into translation with variation of gear ratio; 10. Tandem design of mechanisms for function generation and output speed variation; 11. Additional numerical problems.