P4 Features & Benefits

Singlestage Units

1. Fitness for use

With the Hansen P4 product line you can easily select what you need, thereby optimizing your investment.

Hansen P4 Feature: Your benefit:
  • Simple, standard systems for cooling and lubrication
  • Accessories and instrumentation are offered as catalogue options
  • Two mounting positions and alternative mounting with both shafts in a vertical plane
  • Accessories and instrumentation are offered as catalogue options
  • Enlarged though compact housing and increased shaft height
  • Variable centre distances
  • Improved component standardization
  • Special ratios up to 1% of the requested ratio at moderate cost
  • Proven and cost- effective solutions
  • Easy and fast customization possibilities
  • Increased flexibility in mounting arrangements
  • Easy change of shaft handing, and only one spare unit needed for both
  • The input shaft height matches the large motor shaft height even better
  • Easy replacement and improvement of existing installation at a minimum effort and cost
  • Shorter delivery times
  • Cost efficient tailor-made solution

2. Power and Reliability

The excellent constructional rigidity of Hansen P4, together with the commitment to apply state-of-the-art gear technology, leads to remarkable power and performance.

Hansen P4 Feature: Your benefit:
  • Rigid standardized pinion shafts and housings
  • Full-scale application of:

    • High torque geometry in low speed gear sets

    • Low noise geometry in high speed gear sets

    • Profile-controlled gas carburizing

    • Precision grinding with sophisticated tooth contact analysis

  • Assured oil circulation through the bearings
  • Optimal balance between mechanical, thermal and bearing rating
  • Specific macro gear geometry
  • Tapered roller bearings in the monolithic housing
  • Increased shaft height
  • Better lateral load distribution, lower noise and vibration levels:

    • Better strength/surface durability rating balance

    • Lower noise and vibration levels

    • Optimal load capacity

    • Improved strength

    • Optimal transverse and lateral load distribution, lower noise and vibration levels

  • Long, troublefree working life
  • Size is equivalent to power, resulting in optimal performance and efficiency for all ratios
  • Reduced power losses
  • Lower noise & vibration levels
  • Optimal load capacity
  • Optimal transverse and lateral load distribution, lower noise and vibration levels

3. Spare Parts, Service & Maintenance

The Hansen P4 is one of the easiest to maintain gear units on the market. The maintenance operation itself has been simplified and shortened.

Hansen P4 Feature: Your benefit:
  • Maintenance-free Oil-Lock seal as a standard on the high speed shaft extensions
  • Rounded external design
  • Oversized inspection cover on top of the gear
  • Oil-tight for life - no maintenance required
  • Easy to open for service or inspection or to replace taper roller bearings
  • Smooth surface without dirt-retaining cavities