In traditional rear trunk lid designs, extra devices (e.g., hydraulic actuators and spring mechanisms) are employed to compensate the lid weight and reduce the efforts for both opening and closing it. Such devices often consist of a number of parts, thus leading to high costs for manufacture, assembly and maintenance. In this paper, we designed a compliant bistable mechanism to keep the lid’s t...

The role of compliant elements in a team of distributed object handling robots is discussed from the information, robot behavior, and cooperation protocol points of view. Also main benefits and some limitations on implementing compliant units in a group of distributed cooperative object handling robots are shown. It is proved that, any error in position of the stiff robots executing the Constra...

"Music on hold" is one of the features of telephone systems that is most desired by buyers of business telephone systems. Music on hold means that when one party to a call has the call "on hold", that party’s telephone provides an audio stream (often music) to be heard by the other party. Architectural features of SIP make it difficult to implement music on hold in a way that is fully standards...

1. Abstract Recently there is a growing need for micro water cooling systems with the development of small-sized fuel cells for mobile electric devices. In general, a water cooling system requires a valve for controlling flow rate of coolant in order to keep targeted devices at appropriate working temperature. Traditional type of a flow control valve is driven by an external power source and a ...

1. Abstract This paper focuses on improvement of the crashworthiness of tubular structures using compliant mechanism approach to intelligently tailor local mechanical properties throughout the structure. The ideal crashworthy performance for energy absorbing tubular structures can be achieved by promoting progressive buckling throughout the length of the tube to occur. Progressive buckling is t...