Engineering:Hoecken linkage

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Short description: Four-bar straight-line mechanism
Animation of the Hoecken linkage
Dimensions (unit length a):
  Link 2: a
  Link 3: any multiple of a
Link 1 (distance between ground joints): 2a

In kinematics, the Hoecken linkage (named for Karl Hoecken)[1] is a four-bar linkage that converts rotational motion to approximate straight-line motion. The Hoecken linkage is a cognate linkage of the Chebyshev linkage and Chebyshev's Lambda Mechanism.

The linkage was first published in 1926.[2][3]

A generalization of the Hoecken linkage is Wittgenstein's rod.

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