Recently, car pump market is positively growing in emerging countries as well as advanced countries. A increasing attention is recently drawn to electric vehicle but, still commercialization is expected to take a long time. This research is to study on the performance analysis for change in number of teeth of internal gear oil pump with three different numbers of teeth in the inner gear. After measuring real design features, modeling, velocity distribution and pressure distribution are conducted numerically. Pressure changes and volumetric efficiencies are compared with three different cases in order to analyze the performance for inner gears. Finally, optimum volumetric efficiency is determined with the sequence of case 1, case 2, and case 3.

A method is developed to simulate the fatigue crack growth in a carburized gear tooth considering the effect of residual stress. The calculation of stress intensity factor and the fatigue crack growth rates in the case layer are estimated by the experimental formula obtained in this study. The crack growth of carburized gears is measured by a crack gauge, and the validity of the simulation is confirmed. The critical length of initial crack which corresponds to the fatigue strength is introduced in the method, and a new design procedure of carburized gears is proposed based on the critical length of crack. As an example of the application of the procedure, the size effect is tried to discuss.