A mechanical amplifier is an important device, which together with a piezoelectric actuator can achieve motion with high resolution and long range. In this paper, a new topology based on a symmetric five-bar structure for displacement amplification is proposed, and a compliant mechanism is implemented for the amplifier. In short, the new mechanical amplifier is called a compliant mechanical amplifier (CMA). The proposed CMA can achieve large amplification ratio and high natural frequency, as opposed to the existing CMAs, in terms of topology. Detailed analysis with finite element method has further shown that a double symmetric beam five-bar structure using corner-filleted hinges can provide good performances compared with its counterpart, which is based on four-bar topology. Finally, experiments are conducted to give some validation of the theoretical analysis.
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