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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
Applicant:
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Inventors:
Edward H. Bittner, Madison, CT (US);
Bruce D. Hansen, Shelton, CT (US);
Christopher John Mussel, Oxford, CT (US);
Assignee:
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23F 5/02 (2006.01); F16H 55/08 (2006.01); F16H 55/17 (2006.01); B23H 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 55/088 (2013.01); B23H 9/003 (2013.01); F16H 55/17 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a gear is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of gear teeth in a surface of a gear, the gear teeth having tooth faces defining tooth edges including tooth edge flanks and tooth edge top land and generating a convex contour at an edge break of at least one of the tooth edge flanks and tooth edge top land.