Title: An innovative design on mixed harmonic gear mechanism

Authors: Ping Yang, Bin Yang, Huijun Yi, Yinfa Yang

Addresses: School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China. ' Department of Computer, Huihua Vocational and Technical College, Huihua 41800, China. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology, China. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology, China

Abstract: A new type of mixed mechanism (EGM) is presented in this paper. This design is an attractive alternative to new transmitting movement and power for some special demand. This new kind of mechanism is a combinatorial-embedded structure by using some gears and harmonic gear mechanism. By comparing this new EGM with the classical planetary gear mechanism, the new EGM can get more compactness structure in axial and can get a broader transmitting ratio at the same transmitting power. The design and calculating formulae about this new EGM are deduced. The work lays a basis for design of this new type of EGM for engineering applications.

Keywords: mixed mechanisms; harmonic gears; transmitting characteristics; gear design; epicyclic gear mechanisms; EGM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSI.2009.029338

International Journal of Materials and Structural Integrity, 2009 Vol.3 No.4, pp.309 - 317

Published online: 22 Nov 2009 *

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