Rzeppa Joint

Red bar and yellow shaft create a joint of class II (allowing four degrees of freedom).
Red bar and green shaft create a joint of class II.
Red bar and blue retainer create a spherical joint.The video shows the transmission when α is 0 deg. and then 30 deg.
The output shaft rotates nearly regularly with max error of 1.5% at α = 30 deg.

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