Overview of Special Wire Mechanisms Used for Self-balancing Mechanisms

Wire mechanisms are a special type of centroidal mechanism using a wire, which is enveloped or developed on a noncircular wheel, when one side of the wire is fixed on the noncircular wheel. The variable instantaneous length of the links: radius of a noncircular wheel and free length of the wire allows the generation of a variable moment or transmission function. Self-balancingBalancing methods using special type of belt mechanisms can be used in many technical applications in the field of mechanical devices, measurementMeasurements tools, roboticsRobotics, etc. The chapter shown the self-balanced measurementMeasurements head of a coordinate measuring device, the Archimedean force compensatory mechanism in a constant pressure chamber, the force equilibrium mechanism for a loading platform and the self-balancingBalancing Conco-Balancer manipulator.