Pancake Gear - Differential

The FR pancake gear consists of four main parts: Wave Generator, Flexspline, Dynamic Spline, and Circular Spline. When assembled, rotation of the Wave Generator as a high speed input member imparts a rotating elliptical shape to the Flexspline. This causes progressive engagement of its external teeth with the internal teeth of the Circular Spline. The fixed Circular Spline, having a larger number of teeth than the Flexspline causes the latter to precess at a rate determined by the ratio of tooth difference to the total number of teeth. With the same number of teeth as the Flexspline, The Dynamic Spline rotates with, and at the same speed as, the Flexspline and is the output member of the drive.

Key Features:

• Maximum reduction ratio in minimum space
• Low backlash
• Simple installation and maintenance
• FR is a heavy duty version of the FB
• FR uses a double wave generator bearing

Known for its expert engineering and manufacturing, Harmonic Drive LLC products are relied upon every day throughout the motion control industry. 

About Harmonic Drive LLC
Harmonic Drive LLC engineers and manufactures precision Harmonic Drive® servo actuators, gearheads and gear component sets.  They work with industry-leading customers and companies of all sizes to provide both standard product and custom-engineered servo actuators, gearheads and gear components. Harmonic Drive LLC provides high precision, high performance solutions to meet customer’s mission critical application requirements. The majority of the products sold by HDLLC are proudly made at their US headquarters and manufacturing facility in Massachusetts. Harmonic Drive LLC is AS9100 and ISO 9001 registered. Affiliated companies in, Japan (Harmonic Drive Systems, Inc.) and Germany (Harmonic Drive SE) provide additional manufacturing capabilities.

With over 50 years of experience, our expert engineering and production teams develop enabling technologies and products to meet the needs of an evolving motion control market. We are very proud of our outstanding company history. Our high-precision, zero-backlash Harmonic Drive® gears and Harmonic Planetary® gears have, and continue to play critical roles in robotics, spaceflight applications, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, factory automation equipment, medical diagnostics and surgical robotics.

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