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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2009-09-21

发表刊物：Materials Science Forum

收录刊物：EI、CPCI-S、Scopus

卷号：628 629

页面范围：137-142

ISSN号：0878493123

关键字：cycloid; singular point; curvature; parallel indexing cam mechanism

摘要：A planar cam theoretical profile can be considered as cycloid of the roller center. There is singular point on the cycloid when the roller center is located on the instantaneous axis. Then, the curvature of the cycloid at the singular point is likely to be infinite and interference may be inevitable. Thus, avoiding such singular point is imperative in cam profile design. But, in analyzing the characteristics of the tangent vector and curvature at such singular point, it reveals that the curvature may be finite, even zero, if the cycloid fulfills some condition at the singular point. This leads to a very important property that at the singular point the tangent of the cycloid is parallel to the normal of the instantaneous center curve. The pressure angle is very small even zero. These results would be very efficacious in planar cam mechanism applications. The characteristics of singular point on cycloid are detailed in this paper. As application, a novel kind of parallel indexing cam mechanism is developed. Its configuration and principle are described.© (2009) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.