Linkage Designs

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Construction of a Leg Mechanism

Rectilinear Six-Bar (Candy Coating Linkage)

Hummingbird Spatial Six-bar Linkage

Flapping Wing Prototype

RPR-2SS Soil Conditioning Valve

Flapping Wing Mechanism

Linkages draw Bezier curves

Linkage that signs your name

Manufacturing Prototype for the Butterfly Linkage

Bezier Linkages

Design of Drawing Mechanisms

2016 Mechanisms and Robotics Conference

Motion Gen Linkage Design App

Trifolium using contra-parallelograms

Fourier Curve Tracing

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Heart Trajectory

Full Size Folding Bicycle

Actuating Morphing Linkages

A four-bar linkage provides a shape changing extrusion die


Another version of the six-bar folding linkage

Six-bar linkage folds a structure

Eight-bar Port Closure Tool

Four-bar function generator: Open a door


Linkage Design for Wing Flapping

Linkage Synthesis at Disney Research Zurich

3D Printed Demining Training Aids

Eight-bar motion amplifier

Rectilinear eight-bar suspension

Rectilinear eight-bar linkage

Six-bar linkage with rectilinear moving link


Mechanization of the ballistic function

Retractable handle


Translational Linkages from Kempe

An RSSR-TS Car Door Linkage

Spherical Watt I six-bar up close

Spherical Watt I six-bar linkage

Stephenson II six-bar linkage function generator


Cameron Turner’s Wheelbarrow Linkage

Colin Sledge’s Aileron Linkage

Brendan Smith’s Monitor Linkage

Adam Shutt’s Automotive Spoiler Linkage

Yang Liu’s Bookcase Linkages





Another four-bar linkage flower

A four-bar linkage flower

Four-bar linkage design using Mech Gen


Spare Tire Deployment for a Pickup Truck

Bolt Insertion Six-bar Linkage

Rice Transplanter Six-bar

Icon A5 Wing Deployment Spherical Linkage

Spherical Four-bar Linkage Design: Mech Gen 4

Bobbin Linkage for a Rotating Weaver

Icon A5 spherical four-bar wing linkage

Six-bar gripper with fine adjustment


5-SS Steering Linkage

Adjustable spinal implant

Instrument for spinal implant


Rice Transplanter

5SS Spatial Steering Linkage

Mechanism Generator 2.0 (MechGen 2)

Folding movement for wings for the Icon A5

Spherical linkage concept to fold a wing
Linkage Design Concepts
Jessica Koa designed the flower with petals actuated by six-bar linages.
Link Yun’s flower with six-bar linkages moving the petals.
Benjamin Liu’s Terrarium uses six-bar linkages to open the glass sides.
DJ Fuller’s Jack-o’Lantern uses six-bar linkages to open the segments.
Jessica Kao developed this sofa bed that opens using a six-bar linkage.
Ling Yun used our sofa beg linkage to display a gift.
Design Innovation
Student designs of six-bar linkages
Andrew Brouwer’s six-bar linkage to guide the petals.
Kamil Samaan designed this six-bar linkage.
Bojun Lin’s six-bar linkage guiding the pedals of a flower.
Colin Sledge’s six-bar flower.
Frank Liu’s six-bar flower.
Cameron Turner’s six-bar linkage flower.
Adam Shutt designed this six-bar to guide the opening of the petals of a flower.
Mohamed Ali designed this six-bar to guide the wings of this butterfly.
Tim Rasmussen designed this six-bar linkage to guide the petals of this flower.
Hsuan-chen Wan used MechGen 3 to design a six-bar linkage to guide the petals of the flower.
Student designs of four-bar linkages
Hsuan-chen Wan’s animation of a four-bar linkage that moves the petals of a flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvSmz3hYk-o[/youtube]
Cameron Turner’s design of a flower that moves with a four-bar linkage.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0hQQn0OfI[/youtube]
Mohamed Ali’s four-bar linkage for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoCPh53_f9M[/youtube]
Scott Bougie’s animation of his flower design.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1v7PjDWjg[/youtube]
Frank Liu’s four-bar linkage design for the petal movement.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsFgoPgpmXA[/youtube]
Yang Liu’s four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGrp2tvf0Q[/youtube]
Kamal Samaan’s design of the four-bar linkage driven flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6JTY9HpLs[/youtube]
The flower designed by Colin Sledge.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFudL7fBUBU[/youtube]
This is Andrew Brouwer’s design for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s81Lrjsli_Y[/youtube]
Adan Amarillas designed this linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ZBBVFFivQ[/youtube]
Brandon Creager animated a spiral opening for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oar2wuqLxyA[/youtube]
Adam Shutts designed this linkage to open the petals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5phQxLbKrU[/youtube]
Bojun Lin designed this flower linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bi90cgQaU8[/youtube]
Kelly Lin designed this linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm3P_dn3Zys[/youtube]
Tim Rasmussen designed the linkage to open and close the flower petals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMiDrbZGrU[/youtube]
This is the four-bar linkage designed by Ryan Kuehne.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jWBDXI81t4[/youtube]
Siqi Shi designed this four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qvh9onP7cI[/youtube]
Tianming Cheng designed this four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcnwIhc5-rU[/youtube]
Brendan Smith uses the movement of the petal linkage for a different application.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAHqWz4cNk[/youtube]