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Partial bearing shaft

Development of a light-weight balancer shaft

Partiallagerwelle

Entwicklung einer Leichtbau-Ausgleichwelle

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The oscillating movement of crank mechanism in piston engines produces free mass forces that are compensated by means of balancer shafts with specific unbalance. Based on an expedient arrangement of unbalanced masses and a new design of the bearing points, Herzog Intertec GmbH has developed the partial bearing principle, which provides considerable weight reduction as compared to the conventional balancer shaft geometry.

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  1. Ewald Herzog
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  2. Raphael Herzog
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  3. Patricia Will
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Herzog, E., Herzog, R. & Will, P. Partial bearing shaft. MTZ Worldw 68, 12–13 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03226834

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