Laser Heat Treatment on Gear Surface and Its Practical Application

Making gears with hardened tooth flank is one of the important developments in gear manufacturing. However, the conventional heat treating methods have a common shortcoming--producing big deformation. In this work, we demonstrate, by study, experiment and practical use, that not only has the laser heat treatment solved the difficult problems in conventional technique, but also it has great superiority. The use cases proved that the laser-treated gears are able to substitute for all the gears including gears with complicated shape, high precision and high performance imported gears and all those gears that cannot be manufactured by conventional methods. Moreover, our laser-treated gears have won quite good economic benefit.Obviously, the laser heat treatment for gears is a highly competitive technique having good prospects.