Granted Patent B1

US 12,429,323 · App. 19/235,650 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Inventors: Jialin Zhang (Xi'an, CN); Jianhua Wang (Xi'an, CN); Peili Yin (Xi'an, CN); Shaokang Li (Xi'an, CN); Bingqing Jiang (Xi'an, CN); Zhen Xu (Xi'an, CN); Yadong Zhang (Xi'an, CN); Yunbo Shen (Xi'an, CN); Dongfeng He (Xi'an, CN); Xiaoli Wang (Xi'an, CN); Xiaodong Chen (Xi'an, CN); Qiang Zhu (Xi'an, CN)

Assignee: XI'AN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

G01B5/202F16H55/0806

Abstract

Claims (16)

1. A method for using an involute gear profile artifact for large gear traceable metrology, wherein the involute gear profile artifact for large gear traceable metrology comprises:

an involute gear profile cylindrical surface for parameter transfer,

a datum bottom surface and a datum top surface, wherein the datum bottom surface and the datum top surface are symmetrically arranged on upper and lower sides,

a root datum surface and a tip datum surface, wherein the root datum surface and the tip datum surface are arranged in parallel on front and rear sides, and

an alignment datum surface oppositely arranged relative to the involute gear profile cylindrical surface;

wherein a distance from the root datum surface to a corresponding base circle center is a design distance D;

for different measuring instruments, measurement methods of a large gear comprise Generating method, Polar coordinate method, and Cartesian coordinate method; and

when the Generating method and the Polar coordinate method are used for measurement, three mutually perpendicular planes of the involute gear profile artifact: a reference plane of the root datum surface, a reference plane of the datum bottom surface, and a reference plane of the alignment datum surface are parallel to a coordinate system established by a measurement system at a rotation center origin; a position of the base circle center corresponding to the involute gear profile artifact is adjusted to coincide with the rotation center origin of the measurement system, and a distance from the root datum surface to the rotation center origin of the measurement system is the design distance D, to ensure correct positioning of the involute gear profile artifact; and after a position of the involute gear profile artifact is determined, the involute gear profile artifact rotates with a workbench, a probe of a large gear measuring instrument follows to move, to measure a gear profile deviation of an involute gear profile, and performance of measuring a gear surface deviation by the large gear measuring instrument is evaluated based on the gear profile deviation, to realize traceability of a base circle radius; or

when the Cartesian coordinate method is used for measurement, three mutually perpendicular planes of the involute gear profile artifact: a reference plane of the root datum surface, a reference plane of the datum bottom surface, and a reference plane of the alignment datum surface are parallel to a coordinate system established by a measurement system at a rotation center origin; a position of the base circle center corresponding to the involute gear profile artifact is adjusted to coincide with the rotation center origin of the measurement system, and a distance from the root datum surface to the rotation center origin of the measurement system is the design distance D, to ensure correct positioning of the involute gear profile artifact; after the position is determined, the involute gear profile artifact remains stationary, and only a probe of a large gear measuring instrument moves to measure a gear profile deviation of an involute gear profile at any position; after a first position is measured, a workbench is rotated to drive the involute gear profile artifact to rotate at any angle and measurement is performed again; and steps are repeated, and at least two positions are measured, to evaluate performance of measuring the gear profile deviation by the large gear measuring instrument based on comprehensive measurement results, to realize traceability of a base circle radius.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein two involute gear profile cylindrical surfaces are oppositely arranged, and the two involute gear profile cylindrical surfaces take the alignment datum surface as a symmetrical surface.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a size of the base circle radius of the involute gear profile artifact is equivalent to a size of a corresponding measured standard gear, and a calculated length of the involute gear profile artifact comprises a starting point and an end point of the corresponding standard gear, and is 1.5-2 times of an involute length of the corresponding standard gear.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein a thickness of the datum bottom surface and the datum top surface is 10 mm-20 mm, and a gear surface extends 2 mm-3 mm to a base circle along an involute tangent at the base circle.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein spatial positioning of the involute gear profile artifact is determined by the datum bottom surface, the datum top surface, the root datum surface and the tip datum surface of the involute gear profile artifact, wherein the datum bottom surface and the datum top surface have a flatness of less than or equal to 0.5 μm, and a surface roughness Ra of less than or equal to 0.2 μm; the root datum surface and the tip datum surface are positioning surfaces of the involute gear profile artifact, and have a flatness of less than or equal to 0.5 μm, a perpendicularity with the datum bottom surface of less than or equal to 0.5 μm, and a surface roughness Ra of less than or equal to 0.2 μm; the involute gear profile cylindrical surface has a shape tolerance of less than or equal to 3.0 μm, and a surface roughness Ra of less than or equal to 0.2 μm; and the alignment datum surface has a flatness of less than or equal to 0.2 μm, a perpendicularity with the datum bottom surface of less than or equal to 0.4 μm, and a surface roughness Ra of less than or equal to 0.2 μm.

6. The method according to claim 2 , wherein a size of the base circle radius of the involute gear profile artifact is equivalent to a size of a corresponding measured standard gear, and a calculated length of the involute gear profile artifact comprises a starting point and an end point of the corresponding standard gear, and is 1.5-2 times of an involute length of the corresponding standard gear.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein a thickness of the datum bottom surface and the datum top surface is 10 mm-20 mm, and a gear surface extends 2 mm-3 mm to a base circle along an involute tangent at the base circle.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein spatial positioning of the involute gear profile artifact is determined by the datum bottom surface, the datum top surface, the root datum surface and the tip datum surface of the involute gear profile artifact, wherein the datum bottom surface and the datum top surface have a flatness of less than or equal to 0.5 μm, and a surface roughness Ra of less than or equal to 0.2 μm; the root datum surface and the tip datum surface are positioning surfaces of the involute gear profile artifact, and have a flatness of less than or equal to 0.5 μm, a perpendicularity with the datum bottom surface of less than or equal to 0.5 μm, and a surface roughness Ra of less than or equal to 0.2 μm; the involute gear profile cylindrical surface has a shape tolerance of less than or equal to 3.0 μm, and a surface roughness Ra of less than or equal to 0.2 μm; and the alignment datum surface has a flatness of less than or equal to 0.2 μm, a perpendicularity with the datum bottom surface of less than or equal to 0.4 μm, and a surface roughness Ra of less than or equal to 0.2 μm.

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