Internal gear is a gear using its teeth cut in the internal surface of a cylinder and meshes with spur gears.

In its manufacturing, due to its shape, the usual hobbing machine found in spur gear creation can’t be used. Generally it really is made out of gear shaper (or gear shaping machine) built with a pinion cutter. Recently, the efficiency of inner gear cutting provides been improved by a different procedure called skiving.

Due to the thinness of the band, it really is sometimes difficult to create high precision. On the other hand, gear grinding to improve precision grade is limited by the number of manufacturers and their offered grinding facilities resulting in very high cost.

Also, although it is normally too expensive to create helical teeth internal gears, Ever-Power has managed to get possible to create them simply by adopting equipment that can cut them simply by making pinion cutters and not needing helical guides.

Normally, internal gears can be used with the same module spur gears, based on the number of teeth combinations, but it is necessary to note the possibilities to getting involute, trochoid or trimming interferences. For using Ever-Power standard stock gears, please seek advice from the PDF formatted “Specialized Information of Internal Gears” section for usable quantity of teeth combinations.

Internal gears tend to be found in applications involving planetary gear drives and gear couplings. There are three main types of planetary gear mechanisms: planetary, solar and celebrity types. With respect to the type and the design of which shafts act as input and result, many variations of rate transmitting ratios and rotational directions are produced.