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Quick return mechanism for spring-loaded screw

Engineering Asked by Piotr Szturmaj on August 19, 2020

Looking for a way to convert rotary motion to linear, but it should take less energy to get back to initial position than when going from initial position to the end position.

Specifically, a screw mechanism pushes a spring with multiple of full motor rotations. Then it stays in this ending position for a while as screw prevents the spring from pushing the mechanism back. Now, I’m looking for a mechanism that will retract back to the initial position with less work than before, f.i. with a single motor turn in the same or opposite direction.

For example a lipstick mechanism works with a cam and a pin. Imagine that this mechanism pushes a spring and you can draw the pin out of the cam so the spring will push back. The problem is how to do that with a single rotational motor.

One Answer

If you dont need the spring to stay at the ending position for a while with the help of the screw, you can design the screw such that it facilitates back driving (i.e. once the applied torque by the motor is removed, the spring force will be able to drive the screw back to its original position.)

Answered by user17332 on August 19, 2020

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