Ball joint mechanism based on spherical gear meshings - GIF

[Jon]

Ball joint mechanism based on spherical gear meshings.




More: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9415699

Previously:

Life of a Gear: design, production, and use - video
Gears turning in the same direction - GIF
World's biggest reduction gear - video
Spherical worm gear design animation - GIF
Fibonnacci spiral gears - GIF
Chocolate truffles turned as gears GIF
Exposed planetary gears in heavy equipment - GIF
Making organic gears - GIF
functional gears discovered in insects
Direction changing gears GIF

[rgsparber]

I stand in awe of this creative solution!

Rick

[hotdog0627]

I stand in awe of this creative solution!

Rick

That looks like it can be used for a shoulder joint of a robot... Amazing!

[Frank S]

There is almost an unimaginable range of motion with a fluidity that is hard to comprehend

[Jon]

Short animation, plus 5:15 video with more details. Thanks to mklotz for finding additional info on this.

More: https://newatlas.com/technology/aben...ll-joint-gear/

[PJs]

This is truly awe inspiring and a perfect application of SLA printing for quality and minimal backlash. After all my years of CAD I find this to be one of the most challenging to model, but programing and Coding the servos (4) has to be astronomical! Much Thanks to Jon and mklotz for posting these!! The animations are quite masterful and fully displays the full function of this amazing Motion system...the possibilities are endless, imho.

On their YT page (https://www.youtube.com/@yamagatauniv.7292/videos) the pipe worm to be another fascinating design in small scale.