... to misalignment. The radial latching design consists of evenly spaced blades that rotate into slots cut into the box. When misaligned, the blades contact the edges of the engagement slots, generating a self-correcting force that passively centers the blades with the slot pattern. This paper introduces...

... and the desired mechanism behaviors are transmitted through the medium of kinematic characteristics. The characteristic modeling especially for the MIMO mechanism units must be presented to ensure the feasibility of design knowledge transformation. The reversibility property refers to that the input...

...Sébastien Briot; Victor Glazunov; Vigen Arakelian In the design of a mechanism, the quality of effort transmission is a key issue. Traditionally, the effort transmissivity of a mechanism is defined as the quantitative measure of the power flowing effectiveness from the input link(s) to the output...

.... This paper introduces the design of a suction cup that is “self-sealing.” The suction cups comprising the grasper exert no suction force when the cup(s) are not in contact with an object, but instead exert suction force only when they are in physical contact with an object. Since grasping is achieved purely...

.... These devices differ in their complexity and versatility but offer a spectrum of design solutions applicable to a range of products. The strengths and weaknesses of these different approaches are discussed and analyzed, and some test results are presented. The incorporation of variable valve actuation (VVA...

... for minimally invasive surgery. Pop-up book design (sometimes called paper engineering ( 1 )) has long been considered an art, with its practice limited to a few specialized designers. However, there have been attempts at disseminating knowledge of design principles more widely. This is advantageous because...

... of the proposed parallel robot are studied in detail. Design considerations are also discussed, and a possible prototype is illustrated. The twists defining the passive displacements of the platform are orthogonal to this matrix of rank equal to 3. In the general case, there are three independent passive...