Patent ID: 7088377

Claim:
A system for the graphical synthesis of mechanisms comprising: a computer processor capable of processing graphical information and data; computer memory, electronically coupled to said computer processor, capable of storing said graphical information and data; a display device electronically coupled to said computer processor, displaying graphical information to an operator; an operator input interface electronically coupled to said computer processor allowing an operator to manipulate said graphical information on said display device; and a computing application residing in said computer memory and running on said computer processor, wherein said computing application receives operator input representative of constructs, said input indicative of desired functional requirements, from said operator input interface, and processes said operator input to extract position and angle data for use to calculate mechanism solutions having the particular desired functional requirements said mechanism capable of behaving in accordance with said inputted functional requirements, said computing application further calculating parameters associated with said calculated mechanism for display as graphical information on said display device for said operator to view.