IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,529,731
Granted Patent B2
US 11,529,731 · App. 17/227,454 · Granted Dec 20, 2022

Gearing and robot

Inventors: Satoru Masai (Ina, JP); Yuya Kataoka (Azumino, JP); Nobuyuki Takehana (Matsumoto, JP); Yoshiyuki Soya (Matsumoto, JP)
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Patent No.
US 11,529,731
App. No.
17/227,454
Granted
Dec 20, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A gearing includes an internal gear, a flexible external gear partially meshing with the internal gear and relatively rotating about a rotation axis to the internal gear, and a wave generator provided inside of the external gear and moving a mesh position between the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis, wherein the external gear includes an external tooth having an external tooth surface, the external tooth surface has an external tooth convex pattern including a first convex portion and a second convex portion extending in directions crossing directions of a tooth trace of the external tooth and arranged adjacent to each other in the directions of the tooth trace, and a distance between the first convex portion and the second convex portion is from 80 μm to 520 μm.

Claims (27)

1. A gearing comprising:

an internal gear;

a flexible external gear partially meshing with the internal gear and relatively rotating about a rotation axis to the internal gear; and

a wave generator provided inside of the external gear and moving a mesh position between the internal gear and the external gear in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis, wherein

the external gear includes an external tooth having an external tooth surface,

the external tooth surface has an external tooth convex pattern including a first convex portion and a second convex portion extending in directions crossing directions of a tooth trace of the external tooth and arranged adjacent to each other in the directions of the tooth trace, and

a distance between the first convex portion and the second convex portion is from 80 μm to 520 μm.

2. The gearing according to claim 1 , wherein

the distance between the first convex portion and the second convex portion is from 160 μm to 510 μm.

3. The gearing according to claim 1 , wherein

the distance between the first convex portion and the second convex portion is from 300 μm to 450 μm.

4. The gearing according to claim 1 , wherein

the external tooth includes the external tooth surface, and a tooth bottom surface and a tooth end surface coupling to the external tooth surface, and

the first convex portion and the second convex portion extend from the external tooth surface to the tooth bottom surface and the tooth end surface.

5. The gearing according to claim 4 , wherein

the external tooth convex pattern helically extends around the rotation axis.

6. The gearing according to claim 1 , wherein

the internal gear includes an internal tooth having an internal tooth surface, and

the internal tooth surface has a same internal tooth convex pattern as the external tooth convex pattern.

7. The gearing according to claim 1 , wherein

the internal gear includes an internal tooth having an internal tooth surface, and

the internal tooth surface has a different internal tooth convex pattern from the external tooth convex pattern.

8. A robot comprising:

a first member;

a second member pivoting relative to the first member;

the gearing according to claim 1 , transmitting a drive force for pivoting the second member relative to the first member; and

a drive source outputting the drive force to the gearing.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2021
From: MASAI, SATORU; KATAOKA, YUYA; TAKEHANA, NOBUYUKI; SOYA, YOSHIYUKI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2020-071540 · Apr 13, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210316445A1 · Oct 14, 2021