THE ENGINEERING DESIGN AND TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY VERIFICATION OF HELICAL SPUR GEAR TRANSMISSION WITH A SINGLE GEAR PAIR

Abstract

The transmission efficiency of a gear reducer (ηT) can be expressed as ηT = ηm × ηb × ηs, where ηm is the meshing efficiency of gear pairs, ηb is the efficiency of bearings, and ηs is efficiency of oil seals. Based on the research of Hsieh, et al., the meshing efficiencies of a helical spur gear pair (4, 77) are between 96.13 and 99.20%. The purpose of this article is to analyze the theoretical transmission efficiencies of non-standard helical spur gear pair and verify the theorem. According to the gear data, the theoretical transmission efficiencies are calculated to be 90.13–97.85%. And its test values of transmission efficiencies are between 82.3 and 91.9% (acceptable values). There are only 5.39–14.14% errors between these two values. This manuscript verifies that a helical spur gear pair can have a high reduction ratio (20–30) and acceptable real transmission efficiencies.