Compliant wire stripper based on metamorphic transformation

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Abstract

A wire stripper is a hand-held device used to strip the electrical insulation electric wires. The existing wire strippers are complicated, costly and easy to wear. Considering that wire strippers change their degrees-of-freedom during their motion, a new stripper design based on a compliant 5-bar mechanism utilizing metamorphic transformation is presented for wire stripping. The pseudo-rigid-body method (RPBM) is applied to solve the kinetostatic behaviors of the mechanism in different working phases. The objective function is established for optimizing the design and an optimal design is obtained using a particle swarm optimizer (PSO). Finally, based on the optimization results, a prototype is fabricated, which shows good performances in wire stripping. This compliant wire stripper is low cost, portable, simple in structure and reliable.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)69-75
Number of pages7
JournalJixie Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Volume51
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Compliant mechanism
  • Metamorphic transformation
  • Particle swarm optimizer
  • Wire stripper

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