The Hypoflex® process can be used to manufacture straight bevel gears in a cutting operation. It is a continuous-indexing cutting process, employing a face cutter head with stick blades as the tool. Apart from its pioneering use of the latest dry cutting technology in the straight bevel gear sector, it has the further advantage of great flexibility. It achieves high productivity by using cemented carbide tools with correspondingly high cutting speeds. The Hypoflex® cutting process can be realized on the same Oerlikon CNC bevel gear machines as are used to manufacture spiral bevel gears. The only necessity is to update the machine software. The straight bevel gears are dimensioned using the KIMoS 5 program already known in the spiral bevel gear production, which calculates not only the machine settings, tool data, contact pattern, and ease-off optimization, but also the nominal test data and load contact analysis. All required data are stored in the KIMoS database, in the familiar neutral data format. To learn more e-mail info@klingelnberg.com or visit [www.klingelnberg.com].
