Supporting structure of shaft, and reduction gear

• US 8,371,186 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2009
• Issued: 02/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Inventors: Tamura, Mitsuhiro, Yamamoto, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): FENSTERMACHER, DAVID MORGAN
• Application Number:
  US12/565,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20100080498A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,238 Days
• Field of Search: 744/16, 744/17, 746/06.R, 384/585
• US Class Current: 74/417
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/001 convertible for varying the gear-ratio, e.g. for selecting one of several shafts as the input shaft
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 57/022 Adjustment of gear shafts or bearings for compensating misalignment of axes of toothed gearings without orbital motion F16H1/26; for compensating misalignment of axes of planetary gears F16H1/48
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 57/038 Gearboxes for accommodating bevel gears F16H57/037 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/19665 Bevel gear type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2186 Gear casings

Abstract

A supporting structure includes a casing, a bearing having an inner ring, an outer ring, and rolling elements disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, and an attachment member which detachably and directly attaches a shaft to the inner ring. The outer ring is supported by the casing, and the shaft is adapted to be able to be directly fixed to or removed from the inner ring by the attachment member in a state where the bearing is assembled to the casing.

Claims

1. A supporting structure of a shaft of a reduction gear having a speed reduction mechanism in a casing, and including a shaft which supports a gear which constitutes the speed reduction mechanism, the supporting structure comprising:

a bearing having an inner ring, an outer ring, and rolling elements disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, and supporting the shaft, and

an attachment member which detachably and directly attaches the shaft in a fixed manner to the inner ring,

wherein the outer ring is supported by the casing,

wherein the attachment member is adapted to be able to directly attach the shaft to the inner ring in a state where the bearing is assembled to the casing, and remove the shaft from the inner ring in a state where the bearing is assembled to the casing, and

wherein the shaft is fitted into the inner ring by clearance fitting.

2. The supporting structure of a shaft of a reduction gear according to claim 1,

wherein a gear to rotate along with the shaft is fixed to the inner ring, and the attachment member is adapted to be able to remove the shaft from the inner ring in a state where the gear is assembled to the inner ring.

3. The supporting structure of a shaft of a reduction gear according to claim 1,

wherein the attachment member has a flange portion formed so as to protrude in a radial direction of the shaft, a bolt insertion hole formed in the flange portion so as to pass therethrough in an axial direction, a bolt inserted into the bolt insertion hole, and a bolt hole of the inner ring into which the bolt is threaded.

4. The supporting structure of a shaft of a reduction gear according to claim 1,

wherein the bearing supports the shaft by a single inner ring.

5. A reduction gear in which the speed reduction mechanism includes an input shaft and an output shaft, and the supporting structure of a shaft according to claim 1 is applied to at least one of the input shaft or the output shaft.

6. The reduction gear according to claim 5,

wherein the input shaft has a pinion shaft formed with a pinion, and an input flange formed with a flange portion and integrated with the pinion shaft.