Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook

• A one-stop guide for ready-to-use mechanical component designs
• Describes and illustrates 2501 mechanisms and mechanical devices
• Shows how these components combine successfully with electrical hydraulic, pneumatic, optical, thermal, or photoelectric devices

• An extensive pictorial directory of time-tested components, mechanisms, and devices that have applications in new designs and modifications
• Illustrated technical articles summarizing important, expanding fields in mechanical, electromechanical, and mechatronic design and engineering
• A source of historical information about mechanical components and devices that have participated in design solutions in the past and can be recycled for new designs, or will offer ideas that will inspire original concepts

Whatever mechanical, electromechanical, or mechatronic device, product, or system you are designing or improving—motion-control components, appliances, machine tools, or spacecraft—you will find relevant illustrations and text in this book. Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook is a must addition to your personal technical library.

• Provides an introduction to or refresher on the design and function of classical mechanical elements including bearings, belts, brakes, clutches,couplings, cranks, feeders, gears, genevas, joints, latches, linkages, pumps, screws, springs, and switches

• Key equations and charts for designing mechanisms
• Features a complete index, making it easy to find references to specific components, devices, mechanisms, and systems

Inside—Preview New Directions in Machine Design.

Encyclopedic coverage unmatched by any other reference.

• Actuators
• Bearings
• Belts
• Brakes
• Cams
• Chains
• Clamps
• Clutches
• Controllers
• Couplings
• Cranks
• Drivers
• Encoders
• Feeders
• Gears
• Genevas
• Joints
• Latches
• Linkages
• Magnets
• Manipulators
• Motors
• Pumps
• Robots
• Screws
• Sensors
• Solenoids
• Springs
• Switches
• Transmissions

• Chapter 1: Motion Control Systems.
• Chapter 2: Robot Mechanisms.
• Chapter 3: Parts-Handling Mechanisms.
• Chapter 4: Reciprocating and General-Purpose Mechanism.
• Chapter 5: Special-Purpose Mechanisms.
• Chapter 6: Spring, Bellow, Flexure, Screw, and Ball Devices.
• Chapter 7: Cam, Toggle, Chain, and Belt Mechanisms.
• Chapter 8: Geared Systems and Variable-Speed Mechanisms.
• Chapter 9: Coupling, Clutching, and Braking Devices.
• Chapter 10: Torque-Limiting, Tensioning, and Governing Devices.
• Chapter 11: Pneumatic and Hydraulic Machine and Mechanism Control.
• Chapter 12: Fastening, Latching, Clamping, and Chucking Devices.
• Chapter 13: Key Equations and Charts for Designing Mechanisms.
• Chapter 14: New Directions in Machine Design.