A Displacement Analysis of Plane Multilink Mechanisms with Clearances and Tolerances

Abstract

Systematic displacement analyses of plane multilink mechanisms with clearances and tolerances have been carried out using two kinds of transformation functions. One of the functions may be used to evaluate the influences of bearing clearances upon the output displacements, and the other may be used to analyze the distribution of output errors due to distributions of clearances and tolerances. In these analyses, neither derivations of displacement equations nor initial conditions are necessary for numerical calculations.