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A living hinge or integral hinge is a thin flexible hinge (flexure bearing).It is made from the same material as the two rigid pieces it connects. It is typically thinned or cut to allow the rigid pieces to bend along the line of the hinge.
A living hinge (a type of flexure), on the lid of a Tic Tac box. This hinge has one compliant degree of freedom. A flexure is a flexible element (or combination of elements) engineered to be compliant in specific degrees of freedom. [1]
An ornate brass door hinge A barrel hinge. A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them. Two objects connected by an ideal hinge rotate relative to each other about a fixed axis of rotation, with all other translations or rotations prevented; thus a hinge has one degree of freedom.
A living hinge (a type of flexure) on the lid of a Tic Tac box. This hinge has one compliant degree of freedom. Flexure bearings have the advantage over most other bearings that they are simple and thus inexpensive. They are also often compact, lightweight, have very low friction, and are easier to repair without specialized equipment. [2]
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A single piece of material is used for the top and bottom with a "living hinge" that is integral to the material, rather than added separately. Folding cartons made of paperboard or molded pulp can also be of a clamshell shape. [4] It can also be made of cellulose fiber such as sugarcane-bagasse, wheatstraw, wood pulp, etc.