Tooth Position and Deformation of Flexspline Assembled with Cam in Harmonic Drive Based on Force Analysis

• 作者: Yunpeng Yao Xiaoxia Chen Jingzhong Xing Liteng Shi Yuqi Wang
• 来源期刊: 中国机械工程学报
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（6）
• 所属期刊栏目: Mechanism and Robotics
• 页码范围: 385-404
• 页数: 20页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Deformation of the flexspline is the basis of analyzing tooth trajectory and designing tooth profile.Considering the tooth influence on the position of equivalent neutral layer,a piecewise method for calculating the deformation of flexspline assembled with a cam wave generator is presented in this paper.Firstly,a mechanic model of a ring of uniform thickness in contact with a rigid cam is established.The displacements of the ring inside and outside an unknown wrapping angle are determined by the geometric constraints of the cam profile and the equilibrium rela-tionship,respectively.Meanwhile,the wrapping angle is solved according to the boundary conditions.The assembly forces are derived to investigate the circumferential elongation and strain.Then,considering the tooth effects on the neutral layer of flexspline,the tooth is positioned on the equivalent neutral layer,which is the non-elongation layer within one gear pitch but offset from the geometric mid-layer.The equivalent neutral layer is positioned by the empirical formula of the offset ratio,which is summarized by the orthogonal simulation on finite element models of racks.Finally,finite element models of a ring-shaped and a cup-shaped flexspline assembled with elliptical cam are established to verify the effectiveness and accuracy of the piecewise method.The results show that,compared with the geometric method,the tooth positioning deviation calculated by the piecewise method can be reduced by about 70％with a more accurate deformation description from the geometric condition and mechanic condition inside and outside the wrapping angle.