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4-Bar Mechanism Analysis Guide

The document discusses the importance of patent searches in intellectual property rights and outlines the specifications for a 4-bar mechanism. It includes a computational analysis of the mechanism using displacement, velocity, and acceleration, with specific dimensions provided for the links. Additionally, it features a Python code snippet for calculating the angles of the mechanism based on user input.

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4-Bar Mechanism Analysis Guide

The document discusses the importance of patent searches in intellectual property rights and outlines the specifications for a 4-bar mechanism. It includes a computational analysis of the mechanism using displacement, velocity, and acceleration, with specific dimensions provided for the links. Additionally, it features a Python code snippet for calculating the angles of the mechanism based on user input.

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1.

Patent Search---> Importance (How to search the Patent) Intellectual Property


Rights
2. Mention Specification for the mechanism
3. Computer Aided Mechanism Analysis (Displacement Analysis -> Velocity Analysis ->
Acceleration Analysis)
4. For angle, we need to use the (atan2) function, not (atan) function i.e. theta4
= atan2(numerator, denominator)

Q. In a 4-bar mechanism the dimensions of the links are given as:


Crank = 2cm, Coupler = 3.5cm, Follower = 4cm, Fixed link = 1cm; The crank
rotates at uniform w of 5 rad/s in CCW
Plot the Time History of angular disp, angular vel and angular accln of follower
and coupler

import numpy as np

r1 = 1
r2 = 2
r3 = 3.5
r4 = 4

theta2_deg = float(input("Enter theta2 in degrees: "))


th2 = np.deg2rad(theta2_deg)
Bx = r2 * [Link](th2)
By = r2 * [Link](th2)
d = [Link]((r1 - Bx)**2 + (0 - By)**2)
delta = [Link]((r3**2 + d**2 - r4**2) / (2 * r3 * d))
phi = np.arctan2(-By, r1 - Bx)
theta3 = phi - delta
Cx = Bx + r3 * [Link](theta3)
Cy = By + r3 * [Link](theta3)
theta4 = np.arctan2(Cy, Cx - r1)

print("For theta2 = {} degrees:".format(theta2_deg))


print("Computed theta3 = {:.2f} degrees".format(np.rad2deg(theta3)))
print("Computed theta4 = {:.2f} degrees".format(np.rad2deg(theta4)))

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