flexures

Flexures are generally interesting, these flexures are amazing.

Apple is/was using silicon mems resonators, which is basically a fancy tuning fork on flexures cut out of silicon.

Mechanisms based on flexures don't have this problem, but this requires building the clock very differently.

That may be why they chose to make a vibrator, with flexures rather than bearings.

In the industry flexures are considered to have 'infinite' life if they are correctly designed and if you stay well within the working parameters.

I'm a fan of this project, but flexures are antithetical to an STM assembly.

It's the contacts that wear out, not the flexures.

I'm using flexures for linkages between the servos and the mirrors, and universal joints made of magnets and ball bearings to hold everything together.

The cryocooler and these flexures have me seriously considering going back to school for a mechanical engineering/materials science degree.

> This design for a 3D printed microscope stage uses plastic flexures, meaning its motion is free from friction and vibration.

Eventually (after production and sales) it was determined that due to the very thin and narrow supporting flexures (to keep forces and costs low) the crystal grain size was typically significantly larger than the hinge.

It's not "no moving parts", it's flexures instead of rotational joints.

Flexures can last forever if you stay within the plastic deformation range for that material.

Flexures are systems that bend to perform motion, and can do surprising things that you can't do with joined together machined pieces.