Study on Swing Movable Teeth Drive with External Generating Wave Mode

Abstract

An external generating wave swing movable teeth drive based on sinusoidal acceleration and quintic polynomial motion has been newly developed. This drive consists of a wave generator as the input cam, a train of movable rollers which are uniformly distributed on the fixed separator, and a ring gear as the output cam. The teeth difference between the ring gear and the rollers is two. The input and output cam are engaged with the train of rollers simultaneously. The drive thus has the advantages of large gear ratio, compact structure, high torsional rigid and steady rotation, can be integrated with pulley drive to form a pulley reducer. In this paper, the motion principle is studied and the tooth profiles are derived. On this foundation, curvature of the ring gear and pressure angles of the drive are conducted. And kinematic simulation is also carried out. A physical prototype is manufactured to demonstrate the feasibility and correctness of the theoretical analysis model of the drive. This drive can be integrated with pulley drive to form a pulley reducer, which is promising for the fields needing compact structure and large transmission ratio.