Analysis of housing models of modern single-stage universal gear reducers

Abstract

© 2018 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved. Universal gear reducers are quite simple products, so today there are many manufacturers around the world that produce this kind of reducers. Their connecting dimensions and shape are not defined by the standard, so there is a large number of solutions. The most of manufacturers produce gear reducers with connecting dimensions and axis height, usually the same like the biggest manufacturers do (mainly company SEW), because they want to provide interchangeability of their gear reducers. It is interesting to note that most manufacturers are trying to adopt such a form of reducer that will be different from competing solutions in order to avoid an accusation of coping with someone else's solution, although manufacturers have almost identical shape and competing (copied) solutions. The paper presents, due to the volume of matter, only the analisys of forms of the housing of modern single-stage universal gear reducers in order to point out the expected directions of their further development.