Abstract
The internal abrasive wheel is dressed using a high accuracy external gear with electroplated diamond grains. This dressing can be done with short dressing time and correct transferring of the profile is achieved. If intermeshing gears are selected to have a proper length of path of action, the abrasive wheel has a sufficient gear guiding ability. The guiding ability was clarified by dressing experiments. When the radial feed in dressing is lower than 150mm/min, the corresponding abrasive wheel speed can be increase up to 80rpm. Change in abrasive wheel driving power is very small without producing glazing of abrasive grains, and the dressing time could be reduced by about 40%. The form transferring ability appears in the accuracy of a dressed abrasive wheel. When the radial feed is 2.5μm/traverse, the accuracy of a dressed abrasive wheel was less than 20μm. As the form transferring ability is very high, this dressing will get much better appraisal. These results can be applied for making gears of high accuracy using the gear honing method.
