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Geneva Mechanism

This document provides an overview of a hardware project to fabricate a Geneva gear. A Geneva gear is a mechanism that converts continuous rotational motion to intermittent rotational motion. It has applications in watches, movie projectors, CNC machines and more. The project aims to modify an existing 4-slot Geneva gear design to a 6-slot version and study the effects on undercutting and tolerances. A wooden prototype will be created to analyze the impacts of manufacturing tolerances on the gear's indexing accuracy.

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Geneva Mechanism

This document provides an overview of a hardware project to fabricate a Geneva gear. A Geneva gear is a mechanism that converts continuous rotational motion to intermittent rotational motion. It has applications in watches, movie projectors, CNC machines and more. The project aims to modify an existing 4-slot Geneva gear design to a 6-slot version and study the effects on undercutting and tolerances. A wooden prototype will be created to analyze the impacts of manufacturing tolerances on the gear's indexing accuracy.

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HARDWARE PROJECT(MEE218)

PROJECT TITLE:
FABRICATION OF GENEVA GEAR
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WHAT IS GENEVA MECHANISM?

The Geneva drive or Maltese cross is


a gear mechanism which translates a
continuous rotatory motion into an intermittent
rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel has a pin
that reaches into a slot of the driven wheel
advancing it by one step. The drive wheel also
has a raised circular blocking disc that locks the
driven wheel in position between steps

APPLICATIONS

Mechanical watches
Movie projectors
CNC machines
Banknote counting
Indexing tables in assembly line

HOW IT WORKS?

In most of the arrangements, the driven wheel


has four slots and thus advances by one step of
90 degree for each rotation of the drive wheel. If
the driven wheel has n slots, it advances by
360/n per full rotation of the drive wheel .

WORKING MODEL

IBM 1402-7 tooth geneva gear

DIMENSIONS AND TOLERANCES

PAST RESEARCH

Effect of manufacturing tolerances on indexing


accuracy and synthesis of Geneva mechanism.
It is observed that indexing accuracy is different
for constraint and unconstraint design
corresponding to the same values of tolerances.
The indexing accuracy of Geneva mechanism is
affected by the impact experienced during the
entry of the pin in the slots.

OTHER REFERENCES
Design of Geneva mechanisms with curved slots for nonundercutting manufacturing.
Jyh-John Lee, Bin-Heng Jan
Synthesis of conjugate Geneva mechanisms with curved slots.
Giorgio Figliolini, Jorge Angeles
Effect of Tolerances and Clearances in the Geneva
mechanism.
Akihiro Takanashi

OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

Our aim is to study the effect of tolerances on


indexing and other kinematic phenomenon.
The present mechanism in watches involves a
4-way slot of the driven gear. We wish to modify
the mechanism by changing it to a 6-way slot of
driven gear and study the effect on undercutting
and tolerances.
For this purpose, we plan to create a wooden
prototype and study the effects.

THANK YOU!

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