Mold type plastic gear

• US 6,070,484 A
• Filed: 04/02/1998
• Issued: 06/06/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Enplas Corporation
• Original Assignee: Enplas Corporation
• Inventors: Sakamaki, Kazuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bucci, David A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Joyce, William C
• Application Number:
  US09/054,256
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: 74/434, 74/DIG. 10, 264/328.1, 264/328.12, 264/328.8
• US Class Current: 74/434
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/00 Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor injection blow-moulding B29C49/06
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 15/00 Producing gear wheels or similar articles with grooves or projections, e.g. control knobs
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2055/065 Moulded gears, e.g. inserts therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 55/06 Use of materials; Use of treatments of toothed members or worms to affect their intrinsic material properties coatings for lubrication F16H57/041; producing gear wheels from plastics or substances in a plastic state B29D15/00; heat treatment C21D9/32; electrolytic surface treatment C25D; heating by electromagnetic field H05B6/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 55/17 Toothed wheels worm wheels F16H55/22; chain wheels F16H55/30
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 74/10 Polymer digest - plastic gears
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1987 Rotary bodies

Abstract

A molded plastic circular gear which has removed its wall portions on the inside of a tooth root of its circumferential gear teeth portion. The gear has a circular rim formed at a distance from and on an inside of the tooth root. The gear is further formed by injection of resin through gates located in the web portion of the inside of the rim. The gear is further characterized in that the thickness in the axial direction of the web portion of the inside of the rim is made larger than that of the web portion on the outside of the rim.

Claims

1. A molded plastic circular gear which has removed its wall portions on an inside of a tooth root of its circumferential gear teeth portion, said gear having a circular rim formed at a distance from and on the inside of said tooth root, and wherein said gear includes gates located in a web portion on the inside of said rim for injecting resin in a molding process, said gear being characterized in that a thickness in an axial direction of at least a part of said web portion which is on the inside of said rim and extends from said gates to said circular rim is made larger than that of a web portion on an outside of said rim.

2. The molded plastic circular gear as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that thickness in an axial direction of said web portion on the outside of said rim is at least equal to that of said tooth root of said teeth portion.

3. The molded plastic circular gear as in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that a plurality of radial ribs are formed on said web portion on the inside of said rim, said ribs being connected to said rim.

4. The molded plastic circular gear as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that thickness in an axial direction of said radial ribs is substantially equal to that of said rim.