Manufactura con Alta Tecnología para Prototipado de una Prótesis Multiárticulada Basada en Mecanismos Subáctuados.

Abstract

Abstract. This work presents an optimal solution for the manufacturing process using advanced technology that reduces time to get a functional prototype with minimal waste of material, increasing the accuracy and quality of the manufacturing process of designing a prosthesis that mimics the natural movement middle and distal phalanges in case of loss thereof. The problem solution approach must guarantee to maintain the standards that the prosthesis required as a product ranging from material selection, to the choice of methods to manufacture multijointed underactuated mechanisms. The work carried out to develop this prosthesis with anthropomorphic characteristics and focused to the Mexican population is based on the methodology QFD (Quality Function Deployment), establishing performance specifications and operational requirements that provide quality and performance, that involves creating a model with position of parameters, velocity and acceleration in the phalanges, leading to the conceptualization that provides the detail design acting directly on engineering drawings up to the CAD (Computer Aided Drafting), generating qualities give the design a physical appearance to reduce weight. During this stage it is advantageous to have simulation and modeling tools that let you view the technology needs as it increases the complexity of CAD model used for the design, also use a program that allows for finite element calculations in this case ANSYS ®, establish a model simulation software ADAMS ® and effects of the manufacturing process simulation package is used to manufacture the prototype as ProDesing ® and MasterCAM ® just to name a few