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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1996
Filed:
May. 23, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christian Westphal, Meine, DE;
Assignee:
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1231921 ; 1231922 ;
Abstract
An arrangement for balancing varying moments in a motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an attached transmission, a secondary shaft coupled to the crankshaft of the engine and extending into the transmission and rotating at a higher speed than the crankshaft, a shift clutch on the secondary shaft, and a flywheel and starter ring gear on the secondary shaft providing balancing masses. The moments of inertia of the balancing masses and of the shift clutch, on the one hand, and of the inertial masses associated with the crankshaft, on the other hand, are identical when the reduction gear ratio between the crankshaft and secondary shaft is taken into account.