“…So far, the flexure hinges can be classified into two categories: the primitive flexure hinges, such as circular flexure hinges, corner filleted flexure hinges, elliptical flexure hinges, parabolic flexure hinges, hyperbolic flexure hinges, "V" shape flexure hinges, right circular elliptical flexure hinges, right circular corner-filleted flexure hinges, two axes flexure hinges, multiple axes flexure hinges, and the complex flexure hinges such as cross axis flexure hinges, cartwheel flexure hinges. The shapes of these flexure hinges can be found in the literatures (Meng et al, 2012;Zettl et al, 2005;Chen et al, 2005;Lobontiu and Paine, 2002;Lobontiu et al, 2002aLobontiu et al, , 2001Lobontiu et al, , 2002b, this paper will not present them in detail again. Among these flexure hinges, circular flexure hinges, elliptical flexure hinges and corner-filleted flexure hinges as shown in Fig.…”