Cam Mechanism with Flat/Tangential Translating Follower and Its Size

An important problem in the cam mechanisms synthesis is their total size as a minimization condition (criteria). Usual this condition is reduced to the cam size only, which may be partial accepted for cam mechanisms with oscillating follower ([1], [3], [4], [5]). The problem is quite different when the cam mechanism has a translating follower. In this case the length of follower’s guiding is a very important contributor to the total size of the cam mechanism. This problem was presented in [2] for cam mechanisms with contact roll of the translating follower. The same problem will be presented in this paper but for cam mechanism with flat translating follower.