Mesh analysis for toroidal drive with roller teeth

Abstract

In the current paper, for the toroidal drive with roller teeth, its meshing equation, equations of the contact lines, the limit curves, the induced normal curvature, and the angle of the relative velocity vector to the contact line are determined. Using the equations, contact lines, meshing zones, limit curves, induced normal curvatures, and angles of the relative velocity vector to the contact line are calculated for two kinds of the toroidal drives with roller teeth, respectively. The results are compared with those for the toroidal drive with ball teeth. For the roller tooth surface of the drive, the distribution of the mesh parameters has given. The changes of the mesh parameters along with drive parameters have been investigated. The results are compared with those for the toroidal drive with ball teeth. The results are useful for design and manufacture of the toroidal drive.