To study the lubrication performance of the conjugating tooth-pairs in inclined double-roller enveloping hourglass worm drive
a simplified model of isothermal elastohydrodynamic lubrication(EHL)and a line-contact mathematical model are established with Newtonian fluid EHL model based on the meshing theory of inclined double-roller enveloping hourglass worm drive and the theory of EHL. The oil film pressure and thickness are analyzed by using Newton iteration and Newton-Raphson method. And the effects of roller radius
orifice coefficient
offset distance and inclined angle on the EHL performance of this worm drive are analyzed. It can be concluded that this transmission has better lubrication performance and that the orifice coefficient and offset distance are the most important factors affecting the EHL performance
and roller radius and inclined angle have less influence. The EHL performance at addendum of the worm gear is better than that at dedendum. The orifice coefficient should not be too small and offset distance should not be too large for effectively improving the lubrication performance of the inclined double-roller enveloping hourglass worm drive.
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