US Patent Issued to GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK on June 23 for "Method for gear shaping a toothing, control program, and gear shaping machine for carrying out the method" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,729, issued on June 23, was assigned to GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

"Method for gear shaping a toothing, control program, and gear shaping machine for carrying out the method" was invented by Kurt Kleinbach (Beilstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for gear shaping a toothing (55) with a specified normal pitch (mn), angle of action (Alpha), and optionally a helix angle (Beta) on a workpiece (50), wherein a shaper cutter (40) moving in stroke cycles with a specified stroke length (h) removes material from the workpiece in multiple working strokes in a rolling ...