The centrifugal pendulum-type absorber: The centrifugal pendulum-type absorber application, performance and limits of speed-adaptive absorbers

Providing driving pleasure while reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions means, on the one hand, combustion engines that generate high torque at low speeds and, on the other, transmission concepts with a large spread. For these developments to exploit their full potential, the comfort objectives at low speeds must also be achieved. In this case, the performance capability of torsional vibration dampers like dual mass flywheels plays an important role. As a speed-adaptive absorber, the centrifugal pendulum-type absorber developed by LuK is an ideal means of providing the isolation necessary in new drive systems.