Linkage Designs

Spare tire deployment linkage

Spare tire deployment linkage

Kaustubh Sonawale designed this four-bar linkage to move a truck…
Hardtop Convertible New

Revised Three-panel Hardtop Convertible Linkage

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Oscar Alonso replaced the parallelogram drive linkages of the…
Spherical Fourbar

Spherical Four-Bar Linkages

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Here is something new. Our Mathematica notebook can find…
Four-bar Synthesis

Linkage Synthesis Demonstration

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This shows the operation of our Mathematica notebook for five-position…
Convertible Hardtop

Hardtop Convertible Linkage

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This SolidWorks animation of the drive linkage for a hardtop…
Six-bar Retrieval Linkage for an ROV

Six-bar Retrieval Linkage for an ROV

This six-bar linkage was designed to extend from the body of…
Dumping Linkage

Six-bar Trash Dumping Linkage

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This compact six-bar linkage is designed to lift and dump a trash…
Shelf Deploy

Six-bar Shelf Linkage

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This six-bar linkage is designed to move a shelf from a position…
Monitor Linkage

Monitor Six-bar Linkage

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This video shows our latest model for the six-bar linkage that…
Mechanism Generator

SolidWorks Mechanism Generator

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Mechanism Generator is a SolidWorks add-in that assists in…
Monitory Deploy

TV deployment linkage

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Mikhail Zhuk generated this animation of Jerome Choe's concept…
Deployable Arch

Deployable archway

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This animation of Jerome Choe's concept for a spherical archway…
Shelter Deployment

Stackable fold-up emergency shelter

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Mikhail Zhuk animated this design concept for an eight-bar linkage…
Jansen and Klann Legs

Comparison of Klann and Jansen leg linkages

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Joseph Klann provided a useful comparison of the leg designs…
Linkage for an RV deployable top

Linkage for an RV deployable top

This design concept is an 8-bar linkage developed by Minshan…
Dishwasher linkage

Dishwasher linkage

This linkage to lift the lower rack in a dishwasher was developed…
Ten-bar Drive

10-bar drive linkage

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This 10-bar linkage is designed to drive a scissors movement…
Spherical Deployment

Spherical deployable linkage assembly

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This assembly of spherical rhombus linkages expands to enclose…

Brock Engineering’s mechanism home page

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Fred Klingener has generated a number of interesting mechanism…
Bennett Linkage

Linkage animations on synthetica

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This link connects to a web-page with a number of linkage animations.…

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]