The Profiling of Hob Mill Used for Generating a Cycloidal Reducer’s Disk

Abstract

This paper presents the profiling of the hob mill designed to generate the active surface of the cam of a cycloidal reducer. The algorithm allows determining the active surface of the generating rack gear, which is reciprocally enveloping with the active surface of the cycloidal disk. The novelty of the algorithm, based on the determination of the intermediate surface, consists in the fact that an innovative method of determining this surface is used, called the “virtual pole” method. The method allows determining the enwrapping curve of an ordered curl of surfaces, generated in the rolling movement of two conjugated centrodes. Using the “virtual pole” method, the calculation time for tool profiling is significantly reduced and the disadvantage of the resulting error, small enough to be neglected from a technical point of view, is fully compensated by this reduction in calculation time.