Abstract: A novel compliant transmission mechanism that doubles the frequency of a cyclic input is presented in this paper. The compliant cycle-doubler is a contact-aided compliant mechanism that uses ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel contact-aided compliant mechanism that uses intermittent contacts to convert a single translatory reciprocating input into two output curves, which intersect to enclose ...

Abstract: Initially curved frame elements are used in this paper within an optimization-based framework for the systematic synthesis of compliant mechanisms (CMs) that can trace nonlinear paths. These ...