Researches on the Synthesis of the Six-Bar Linkage (A·3 Type)

Abstract

Previously, the author presented researches on the synthesis of a four-bar linkage in which new precise methods of the numerical calculation on A Type was derived, but, since the equation in R was complex, a digital-computer program was described exhaustively. In this paper, a sixth-degree algebraic equation in R has been reduced to a third-degree and a new vector diagramatic solution of the characteristic equation has been deviced. As a result, a more rapid synthesis of A Type of the 6-bar linkage is obtained, which has an accuracy higher than that described in the previous paper.