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Flap door for kitchen wall unit with spring support

This example shows how the force conditions for a six-bar hinge mechanism on the flap door of a kitchen wall unit can be checked quickly and easily with the kinematics software ASOM v7.

Klappe für Küchen­ober­schrank mit Feder­unter­stützung
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The door has an opening angle of 110° and is supported on both sides by tension springs. The aim is to create a suitable manual force curve for different door panel weights (here: 2 to 8 kg) with the help of the adjustably mounted springs. A suitable manual force curve is positive at the beginning (when closed), i.e. force must be applied to open the door at first, and becomes negative at about 15-20° opening angle and then remains negative, i.e. the door opens by itself all the way to the end.

The six-bar linkage was previously created with the corresponding synthesis tools in ASOM v7 (two-plane synthesis).