Linkage Designs

Ballistic Function

Mechanization of the ballistic function

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This Stephenson III six-bar linkage sets the elevation of…
Retractable handle

Retractable handle

This six-bar linkage was developed at the request of a designer…
Tensegrity Linkage

Tensegrity Linkage

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This is a design concept that uses tensegrity beam elements…
Kempe Linkages

Translational Linkages from Kempe

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These linkages guide a platform in straight-line translation.…
Kassim Car Door

An RSSR-TS Car Door Linkage

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Kassim Abdul-Sater provides this CATIA animation of a spatial…
Spherical Car Door Linkage

Spherical Watt I six-bar up close

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This view shows the operation of the spherical Watt I six-bar…
Spherical Car Door

Spherical Watt I six-bar linkage

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The movement of this car door is guided by a spherical Watt I…
Six-bar Function Generator

Stephenson II six-bar linkage function generator

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Mark Plecnik designed this Stephenson II function generator by…
Plecnik Art

Mark Plecnik’s Art Project

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Mark Plecnik designed this system to illustrate the movement…
Cameron Turner’s Wheelbarrow Linkage

Cameron Turner’s Wheelbarrow Linkage

Cameron Turner designed a four-bar and a six-bar linkage to assist…
Aileron Linkage

Colin Sledge’s Aileron Linkage

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Colin Sledge designed this linkage to guide an airfoil section…
Brendan Smith’s Monitor Linkage

Brendan Smith’s Monitor Linkage

Brendan Smith designed this six-bar linkage to guide a big-screen…

Adam Shutt’s Automotive Spoiler Linkage

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Adam Shutt designed this six-bar linkage to guide the movement…
bookcase linkage

Yang Liu’s Bookcase Linkages

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Yang Liu designed a four-bar and a six-bar linkage to guide a…
Kassim Eightbar

Kassim’s Eight-bar Linkage

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Kassim Abdul-Sater designed this eight-bar linkage to guide a…

Six-bar folding handle

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Siqi Shi designed this six-bar linkage to guide a folding handle…
Flower linkage

Six-bar flower

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Tim Rasmussen designed this six-bar linkage to guide the petals…
Butterfly six-bar

Six-bar butterfly

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Mohamed Ali designed this six-bar linkage to guide the wings…
Another Flower

Another four-bar linkage flower

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Mohamed Ali prepared this video of the four-bar linkage he designed…
MechGen Flower

A four-bar linkage flower

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Cameron Turner prepared this video of his four-bar linkage flower.…

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]