Creative Design of Double Safety Shoes Mechanisms

Abstract

This paper is to synthesize the double safety shoes mechanisms of elevators for prompting passenger's safety. A systematic design methodology including type synthesis and mechanism skeletons technology is also presented based on the design requirements and design constraints. The design requirements include to avoiding from collision between shoes, and shoe can be pulled out independently not to drag the door. The design constraints are proposed for assigning link types and kinematic relations. An existing mechanism, which is designed with six links and seven joints, is investigated by mechanism kinematics and structure sketch to establish the topological structure. According to the creative method, all of the possible kinematic chains with the numbers of the vertices and edges are enumerated. Then the linkage numbers are assigned skillfully to the edges, and one of the kinematic pairs, for example, revolute pair, prismatic pair, and rolling pair, is chosen for every vertices. So every kinematic chain can be stretched out several particularized chains. Several mechanism skeletons are also sketched.