Sentences with phrase «hinge joint»

The Pelamis is a semi-submerged, articulated structure composed of cylindrical sections linked by hinged joints.

Simple hinge joints provide a forward and backward motion like your elbow and knee joints.

It's an incredible piece of engineering, structured as a «pivotal hinge joint.»

He has elbows that bend and swivel, hinge joints at the knees, and ball joints at the base of his skull, shoulders, hips, wrists and ankles.

Waves produce a widely variable power input, as illustrated, for a single hinged joint.

The P2 generates energy when its large floating tubes, connected by hinged joints, bob in the waves, moving hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid to drive turbine.

The elbow joint is a simple hinge joint but most movements involving the elbow joint also involve the radioulna joint where the forearm bones (radius and ulna) join at the elbow joint.

The knee is a hinge joint, designed primarily to move forward and backward.

As its hinged joints heave and fold, they pump hydraulic pistons, which in turn spin high - pressure fluid generators.

These muscles would have pulled the head up and down, with the help of a hinge joint linking the head to the shoulders.

Any deviation from this requirement would create a hinge joint.

«What you're doing is getting those hinge joints to not only start mobilizing but stabilizing as they're staying in line with one another,» Gillespie says.

It's an empty premise given some pretext of tension by the pursuit of DuBois, to whom the animators grant a heightened olfactory sense and what seem like backwards - hinged joints that let her scuttle about like a Gallic cockroach.

Doors open via conventional handles, though they're held open by a roll of «100 - mph tape» wedged into the hinge joint instead of the factory hydraulic struts.

They join the femur and tibia (the bones above and below the knee joint) together so that the knee works as a hinged joint.

Cruciate ligaments are important for the hinge joint function of the stifle joint.

Based on its anatomy, the knee joint is a «hinge joint».

They join the femur and tibia (the bones above and below the knee joint) together so that the knee works as a stable, hinged joint.

The elbow functions as a hinge joint, located at the convergence of three bones: the humerus in the upper forelimb, and the...

The elbow functions as a hinge joint, located at the convergence of three bones: the humerus in the upper forelimb, and the radius and ulna that run parallel together through the lower forelimb.

The elbow is called a synovial (lubricated) hinge joint, although it has some minor similarity to a ball - and - socket joint.

In total, there are 30 points of articulation, including bendable tail; his elbows and knees are on swivel joints, his jaw is on a hinge joint, and the rest of him — ankles, wrists, hips, shoulders, torso, base of the neck and base of the skull — is chock full of ball joints.

The submission of the filed patent describes the hinge joint of a 2 - in - 1 devices which signify a joint.