Design and Analysis of Compliant Rack and Pinion Using Compliant Contact Rolling Joint

Lakshmipathy Panchanathan; Shyh-Chour Huang

doi:10.3390/engproc2023038036

Engineering Proceedings (Jun 2023)

Design and Analysis of Compliant Rack and Pinion Using Compliant Contact Rolling Joint

Lakshmipathy Panchanathan,
Shyh-Chour Huang

Affiliations

Lakshmipathy Panchanathan: Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 807618, Taiwan
Shyh-Chour Huang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 807618, Taiwan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2023038036
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 38, no. 1
p. 36

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This paper presents the design of a compliant rack and pinion mechanism with the support of a compliant rolling contact joint (CRCJ). The flexible strips are mounted to connect the rack and pinion to accelerate the mechanism. Two types of rack and pinion mechanism are proposed: rack and pinion mechanism and double rack and pinion actuator. The 3D model is created with finite element analysis (FEM) for structural analysis to observe the maximum strength and the deformation of the flexible strip. A 3D-printed model is proposed by using a fused deposition method (FDM) by printing layer by layer for experimental and demonstration purposes. In this study, we propose a set of examples to convert a traditional rigid body mechanism to complete a complaint mechanism to accumulate the actual function and also to increase the high possibilities of mounting.

Published in Engineering Proceedings

ISSN: 2673-4591 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Engineering machinery, tools, and implements
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