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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A balance shaft structure includes a balance shaft including a balance weight, a driven gear to rotate the balance shaft by being engaged with a drive gear, a scissors mechanism, whose position in an axial direction is regulated, including a scissors gear to reduce backlash between the drive gear and the driven gear and an axially urging member to urge the scissors gear toward the driven gear in the axial direction, a first regulating portion to regulate an axially inner position of the scissors mechanism, and a second regulating portion fixed to the balance shaft on a side close to the shaft end part of the balance shaft beyond the first regulating portion and configured to regulate an axially outer position of the scissors mechanism.