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China Ocean Engineering , Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 175- 184 Z 2009 Chinese Ocean Engineering Society, ISSN 0890-5487 Design Research on Drive System of Underwater Tapping Machine* YU Ka-i an ( 喻开安) 1 School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering , China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China ( Received 16 June 2008; accepted 24 November 2008) ABSTRACT The underwater tapping machine is composed of a center bit, a tapping cutter , a seal box, a main drive box , a bor- ing bar assembly, a envelop, a gear case, a counter and so on. The drive system in underwater tapping machine consists of a worm drive, a gear drive system and a screw drive. The worm drive is in the main drive box. The worm is connected with a hydraulic motor and driven by the hydraulic motor. The gear drive system is a combined gear train which is the combinations of the fixed axes and differential gear train in the gear case. On the one hand, by means of the fixed axes gear trains the turn and power of transmission shaft are transferred to the boring bar and the screw rod, causing differential turn between the boring bar and the screw rod. On the other hand, the turns of the boring bar and the screw rod are transferred to the differential gear train. The differential gear train is used to drive a special counter to count axial travel of the boring bar . The screw drive is composed of a feed screw and a nut on the boring bar. There is the differential turn between the boring bar and the feed screw. By means of the nut, the boring bar can feed automatically. With the move- ment of the sliding gear 7 in the gear case, the designed drive system can also be provided with the ability of fast forward and fast backward movement of the boring bar in its idle motion, resulting in the increase of the tapping efficiency. Key words: underwater tapp ing machine; mechanical drive system; axial travel counting device; design 1. Introduction Since the first subsea oil supply pipeline of the Bohai Chengbei Oilfie