On the Profiles of Bands in the Rolamites

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In rolamites, the band-generated forces can be known when the profiles of bands are given, but it cannot be known what profiles generate the prescribed forces. Then, in order to apply the rolamite as a transducer between force and displacement, the profiles of bands have been investigated to generate the desired functions of forces in the case where the distances between guides, diameters of rollers and moduli of longitudinal elasticity of bands are known. The prescribed forces have been generally obtained by solving an inhomogeneous difference equation about the flexural rigidities of bands. The forces have been also obtained by the bands with partially constant rigidities though the maximum displacement of rollers are limited to certain values.