NC method for generation of conjugating hypoid gears based on NC’s flexibility

It is known that manufacture of hypoid gears is difficult and complicated, the reason lies on the limitation of traditional mechanical machine tools. With the development of NC machine tools, there should be new ways of cutting this kind of gear. Therefore, an idea to generate gears with conjugating tooth surfaces is proposed, based on the 'flexibility' characteristic of NC that means various motions, in a sense, can be performed arbitrarily on NC machine tools. Using this method, the direction of the contact path on tooth surfaces can be controlled, and also, theoretically, the generated tooth surfaces can transmit motion at specific transmission ratio curve.