• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.1026-1034
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• 1988

An efficient method for designing balancing springs to be used for dynamic balancing of planar mechanisms was studied. In spite of its wide application in the field of balancing problems such as balancing of input torques, clearance effects etc., there have been few efficient ways of determining the specifications of the balancing springs. To improve this problem, a method of approximating the characteristic of linear springs was suggested and its validity was checked through an analysis of errors. Further, through an example of a balancing problem to reduce the fluctuation of input torques of a 4bar mechanism, it was shown that the proposed method of approximation simplifies the design equations and a satisfactory result can be found efficiently.