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Two things that are not the same configuration
The mechanical advantage of a four-bar, from the velocity solution: for a lossless mechanism it is the reciprocal of the output-to-input speed ratio, so wherever the output momentarily stops the force ratio diverges. It reaches 1673 at 222° — a toggle, where crank and coupler line up, and the reason a knee-joint clamp holds with almost no effort. The transmission angle is at its worst somewhere else entirely: 46.5° at 0°, 222° away, where coupler and rocker line up instead. Both get called "the mechanism jamming" and they are opposite situations — one is enormous force output, the other is force going into the bearings.
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Where it is used
- Four bars and four pins Linkages
- Locked, and still moving Several legs, one platform
- Two things called jamming Drawn wrongly
- The transmission angle Linkages
- Locked on purpose Machines you have met
- One test, three mechanisms Motion that stops
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