As direct contact mechanisms, Cam-follower mechanisms are used commonly. Disk-typed cams have 4 different types due to the different type of followers, such as reciprocating roller type, reciprocating flat type, oscillating roller type, and oscillatin...
As direct contact mechanisms, Cam-follower mechanisms are used commonly. Disk-typed cams have 4 different types due to the different type of followers, such as reciprocating roller type, reciprocating flat type, oscillating roller type, and oscillating flat type. In this paper, iterative contact method is used to design the cam shapes and analyze the kinematic properties of the cam and follower mechanisms.
For the given displacements, the shapes of cam must be designed accurately with the given types of the follower. But Engineers in domestic industry modify the type of followers by simple shape synthesis without consideration of functional aspects. This paper presents that the simple shape modification as the reverse design makes big trouble in machines the mechanism operates incorrectly.