Animations of mechanical models

Original model

(5)-1 Three parallel cranks and coupling rods

Three small cranks are installed on a rotating disk, and another three small cranks are also installed on another disk. The rotating axes of the two disks are parallel to each other, but shifted. Three connection bars connect the disks, and the speed ratio of the two rotating axes is 1. [Animation: Kiyokazu AKIYAMA, Graduate school of informatics, Oct.1999,
and Jing DI, Graduate school of informatics, Oct.2000]