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Y. Kahraman, M. Madan, B. Sagbas, M.N. Durakbasa:
"Parametric Design and Modeling of 3D Printed Prosthetic Finger";
in: "Digital Conversion on the Way to Industry 4.0 - Selected Papers from ISPR2020, September 24-26, 2020, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering", ISSN 2195-4364; M.N. Durakbasa, G. Gencyilmaz (ed.); Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-030-62784-3, 13 pages.

Three dimensional (3D) printed prostheses have emerging trends in recent years. They become popular with their cost-effective and easy to build structures which provided by the developments of the additive manufacturing technology. By these advancements, many open-source prosthetic hand models started to appear in the market. However, some of them are not suitable for all kinds of patients yet. So, a good deal of designs has failed to meet all of the user´s physical needs which might cause the device not being used by the patients. In this paper, it is tried to do a parametric design and produce a mechanical prosthesis with a simple mechanical design that can be adapted easily to each patient. For this purpose, the information about a planar four-link mechanism, design, and analysis steps of the mechanism and how it can be improved in the future has been discussed.

Prosthetic hand / Additive manufacturing / 3D production / Upper limb / Low-cost production

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62784-3