The Kinematic Design of 2K-2H Planetary Gear Reducers with High Reduction Ratio

Abstract

The power system equipped in machinery contains power source (motor or engine) and gear reducer to get large output torque. The rotation speed of motor is made higher and higher to obtain high power with the same volume. Hence, the reduction ratio of gear reducer is required to be higher and higher. Planetary gear trains can be used as the gear reducers with high reduction ratio. However, the planetary gear train with high reduction ratio is compound gear system. The purpose of this paper is to propose 2K-2H type planetary gear reducers with high reduction ratio. Based on the concept of train value equation, we propose a new representation to present the kinematic relationship of the members of the train circuit. According to this representation graph, we propose an algorithm for the kinematic design of planetary simple gear trains with high reduction ratio. Some 2K-2H type planetary gear reducers are designed to illustrate the design algorithm.