Gear tooth and external gear pump

• US 8,109,748 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2004
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Original Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Inventors: Merendeiro, Joao, Ribafeita, Jose, Vu Do, Que
• Primary Examiner(s): DAVIS, MARY ALICE
• Application Number:
  US10/568,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20070274853A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,757 Days
• Field of Search: 418/150, 418/201.3, 418/205, 418/206.1, 418/206.5, 418/196, 418/197
• US Class Current: 418/206.5
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2/084 Toothed wheels
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2/18 with similar tooth forms F04C2/16 takes precedence

Abstract

A gear tooth including a concave base connected to its starting point at the root of the adjacent tooth and a top connected to the base via a first transition point. The top of the tooth includes two convex segments connected via a second transition point causing a curve break in the tooth profile.

Claims

1. An external gear pump, comprising:

at least one pair of mutually meshed toothed gears including a driving gear and a driven gear, each tooth of the gears being comprised of a root including two concave root sectors, with each of the concave root sectors being joined at an origin to a concave root sector of a neighboring tooth, and a top including a first side and a second side, with each of the sides of the top joined to a respective one of the concave root sectors by a first transition point,

wherein each of the sides of the top includes two convex sectors joined by a second transition point defining a discontinuity in curvature of a profile of the tooth,

wherein the teeth in mesh have at all times at least one primary bearing point by which the driving gear moves the driven gear, and at least one secondary contact point, and

wherein the first transition point of one of the teeth in mesh is successively the primary bearing point and the secondary contact point in the course of meshing.

2. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein the second transition point defines a bottom of a notch made in the tooth profile.

3. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein the convex sector following the first transition point has a spherical involute profile.

4. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein the convex sector following the second transition point has a spherical involute profile.

5. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein the top of the tooth includes a rounded end sector joined to each of the convex sectors following the second transition point by a transition sector.

6. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein two of the toothed gears are identical.

7. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein the first transition point on one side of one tooth rolls over a convex sector on one side of a tooth of an opposite meshed gear.

8. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein a shape of an end sector of the teeth matches a shape of a concave sector defined by juxtaposition of two roots of neighboring teeth.

9. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein an end sector of one tooth rolls between two teeth of an opposite meshed gear, while maintaining contact therewith until the one tooth slips away from the two teeth of the opposite meshed gear.

10. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein the teeth of two meshed gears are in contact over more than one pitch.

11. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein at least one tooth of the mutually meshed gears is symmetric.

12. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein each tooth of the mutually meshed gears is symmetric.

13. The gear pump according to claim 1, wherein, when the one of the teeth in mesh is successively the secondary contact point, the primary contact point of the teeth in mesh is on a next tooth downstream in a direction of rotation of the pair of gears, and

after the primary contact point is on the next tooth, the primary contact point is transferred back to the one of the teeth in mesh that is upstream from the next tooth before the next tooth is out of mesh.