Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Accurately Estimating Capacity When Designing Plastic Gears Using Integrated Gear Software

Certain parameters hold true when designing all gears, including plastic:

  • Use of conjugate tooth forms.
  • Maintaining contact ratios greater than 1.00.
  • Minimizing specific sliding, thus improving efficiency.
  • Minimizing tooth deflections.
  • Keeping working stresses below material strengths to insure adequate service life.
Jim Marsch, our in-house gear expert, recently wrote about these and other topics pertaining to plastic gear design for an article that appeared on the IDES website. Click here to read the full article.

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