HIGH POWER DENSITY, LOW - NOISE PERICYCLIC TRANSMISSION WITH STRAIGHT BEVEL GEARS

Tanmay D. Mathur

Edward C. Smith

Mechanical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University

Prof., Aerospace Engineering

Associate Prof., Mechanical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University of Tennessee Knoxville

CONCEPT AND TECH. SUMMARY

N3

N1

Hans DeSmidt

TO-SCALE SIZE COMPARISON

ANALYSIS PRINCIPLES
LOAD DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION BY
MINIMIZATION OF ELASTIC POTENTIAL ENERGY

N4

N2

GEAR RATIO : =

TWIN PERICYCLIC DRIVE

A turn-key
solution to bulky,
noisy transmissions

MESHING IN SPUR GEARS

GEAR TOOTH DEFLECTION CALCULATION FROM
CUBIC SPLINE FINITE STRIP METHOD (FSM)

SIMILARITY TO WOBBLING COIN

Nutational motion kinematics leading to high reduction ratios

Pericyclic Motion Converter (PMC) wobbles on Reaction
Control Member (RCM) like a coin wobbles on a table
High reliability and major reduction in O&M costs
PMC is an Internal Bevel Gear

CONTACT STRESSES DISTRIBUTION2 TEETH IN CONTACT

RADIAL FINITE STRIPS IN

EXTERNAL GEAR TOOTH

GEAR MID-PLANE AND

APPLICATION OF LOAD

LARGE MESH STIFFNESS VARIATION

RCM and Output are External Bevel

Gears with crowned profile

MESHING IN PERICYCLIC GEARS

3 4 2 and 2 1 2

DEFLECTION OF INTERNAL
GEAR TEETH IN CONTACT

TARGET KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Metric
Torque Transfer
/ contact ratio

State of the Art

Limited by size/
< 3 teeth/mesh

Pericyclic Drive
High power density/
> 6 teeth/mesh

Number of
Parts/ Reliability

15 Gears, 15
bearings / ~55%

8 Gears, 5 bearings
/ ~80%

Noise

High, gear whining

and rattling

Low, Transmission
errors average out

CONTACT STRESSES DISTRIBUTION7 TEETH IN CONTACT

SMALL MESH STIFFNESS VARIATION

- LOW NOISE

DEFLECTION OF EXTERNAL
GEAR TEETH IN CONTACT

References:
[1] Z. Saribay and R. Bill, "Design analysis of Pericyclic Mechanical Transmission system, Mechanism and Machine Theory,
vol. 61, pp. 102-122, 2012.
[2] T. Mathur, Z. Saribay, R. Bill, Smith, E.C. and H. DeSmidt, "Analysis of Pericyclic Mechanical Transmission with Straight
Bevel Gears," 56th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference , January 2015
[3] P. Gagnon, C. Gosselin and L. Cloutier, "Analysis of Spur and Straight Bevel Gear Teeth Deflection by the Finite Strip
Method," Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 119, no. 4, p. 421, 1997.

Acknowledgments

Gear Ratio

Limited to ~5:1

Very high ~ 40 : 1

This research was partially supported by Vertical Lift Consortium under grant # W911W6-12-2-0003. We thank
Dr. Robert Bill and Dr. Liming Chang who provided insight and expertise that greatly assisted the research.