TY  - EJOU
AU  - Ji-Jun, Su  
AU  - Zhao-Cheng, Zhang  
AU  - Hong, Hu  

TI  - Development and Evaluation of Linear Characteristic of a Complex Flexure Hinge
T2  - The International Conference on Computational \& Experimental Engineering and Sciences

PY  - 2009
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
SN  - 1933-2815

AB  - This paper concentrates on the development and evaluation of linear characteristics of a complex flexure hinge with high accuracy and large stiffness. The flexure hinge mechanism is used to clamp the shaft of a micropositioning stage based on the inchworm principle. Six key parameters of the flexure hinge are optimized by using finite element method. Developed flexure hinge has very good effects on the clamping and resilience that are accurate and reasonable. The evaluation result shows that the flexure hinge has excellent linear characteristic.
KW  - flexure hinge
KW  -  micropositioning stage
KW  -  finite element method
KW  -  linear characteristic

DO  - 10.3970/icces.2009.011.087