Abstract
The rack and pinion mechanism is synthesized for generating both three prescribed path points with input coordination and three positions of function generation. This mechanism has a number of advantages over the four bar linkage. First, since the rack is always tangent to the pinion, the transmission angle is always the same (optimum) value of 90° minus the pressure angle of the pinion. Second, with both translation and rotation of the rack occuring, multiple outputs are available. Other advantages include the generation of monotonic functions for a wide variety of motion and nonmononotomic functions for the full range of motion as well as nonlinear amplified motions. In this work, the mechanism is made to satisfy a number of practical design requirements such as a completely rotatable input crank and others. The method of solution developed in this work utilizes the complex number method of mechanism synthesis and the solution is programmed on a VAX 11 785 computer and is being made available to interested readers.
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