Research Article

Gear Tooth-Forming Mechanism and Experimental Research of a Spiral Bevel Gear Rolling Process Using Local Induction Heating

Figure 20

The optimized shape of the pinion blank. (a) The taper between the tooth heel-end and tooth toe-end end of the blank. (b) The height of the tooth heel-end of the pinion blank. (c) The transition curve between the tooth heel-end and the tooth toe end.
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