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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8073571 | Method and device for frequency-response correction in vibration isolation systems To achieve improved frequency-response correction of a vibration-signal transmitter in a vibration isolation system, the invention proposes a method in which an analog sensor signal representing vibrations is generated through the use of a vibration-signal transmitt... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8014903 | Method for suppressing vibration and device therefor The vibration suppressing device includes vibration sensors, a FFT calculating unit, a store device, a calculating unit, and a NC device. The vibration sensors detect a time-domain vibrational acceleration of a rotary shaft during rotating. The FFT calculating unit ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005574 | Vibration suppressing method and device A stable rotation speed is acquired by finely changing a rotation speed of a rotary shaft 3 based on an expected stable rotation speed, and calculating an amount of change of a k′ number, and the like. Therefore, a more accurate rotation speed can be acquir... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000839 | Method and apparatus for actively canceling vibrations in a computer system One embodiment of the present invention provides a system actively cancels vibrations in a computer system. During operation, the system monitors vibrations in the computer system. Next, the system analyzes the vibrations to identify one or more harmonics in the vib... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7945350 | Wind turbine acoustic emission control system and method A system and method for controlling noise generated from a wind turbine is disclosed. The method includes selectively adjusting the angle of pitch of the blade in response to an amount of noise generated being above a predetermined amount and maintaining the amount ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7917248 | Dynamic marking system A method for configuring a marking device includes, at a control system, establishing communication with the marking device; receiving, from the marking device, information about capabilities of the marking device; presenting the received information about capabilit... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908033 | Built-in swept-sine testing for a computer system to assure vibrational integrity Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that performs vibration testing in a computer system. The system starts by generating a vibration at a predetermined frequency in a computer system. The system then determines if the computer system has a resonan... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904210 | Vibration control system A vibration control system and a method for controlling vibration in a material surface are disclosed, wherein the vibration control system provides a desired motion of the material surface while militating against any undesirable motion of the surface. The vibratio... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7877167 | Reducing vibration in an electronic system In a method for reducing vibration in an electronic system, at least one component of interest that is subject to vibration is identified, at least one component that is a source of the vibration is identified, a resonant frequency of the at least one component of i... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7822509 | Control system for active vibration isolation of a supported payload The invention relates to a control system for active vibration isolation of a supported payload with a control device that comprises a processing unit (41) for processing position data and orientation data of all available sensors to supply a sensor control m... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7747353 | Method of setting control data in an active vibration isolation control system and a control method thereof A method of setting control data by an active vibration isolation control system includes the steps of selecting, when a frequency of a pulse signal actually detected is superior to a predetermined frequency, appropriate control data selected from among predetermine... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7715949 | Vibration reducing device A vibration reducing device that reduces the vibration of a control object includes a digital controller. A vibration state detection device detects the vibration of the control object and generates an analog signal of the vibration of the control object. An input-s... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7715948 | Method and apparatus for regulating vibration isolation systems The invention relates to the control and regulation of a vibration isolation system with a number of vibration signal transducers for providing analogue sensor signals and a number of actuators for suppressing vibrations by processing the sensor signals to form actu... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711452 | Characterizing vibrational health in computer systems with variable component configurations One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that efficiently conducts vibrational characterizations for a computer system having variable component configurations. During operation, the system receives a given component configuration associated with th... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706924 | Vibration controller for active vibration insulators and method for controlling vibrations for the same A vibration controller includes a map controller, an adaptive controller, a set-up frequency judge/switcher, and an actuator. The map controller includes a data map storage for storing data on control signals determined in advance for a vibration insulator, and a si... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7596428 | Methods and apparatuses for monitoring steam turbine valve assemblies The present application provides for apparatuses and methods for monitoring steam turbine valve assemblies. In one embodiment of the present application a method for monitoring valve assemblies is provided. First, the vibration characteristics of at least one valve ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7567857 | Control device and method for a vibratory machine This invention relates to a control unit for an unbalanced mass adjusting device in a vibration generator, in particular in a soil compaction machine, having an adjusting cylinder which is hydraulically adjustable to adjust a relative position of contrarotating unba... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7565226 | Determining operating fan speed for systems containing disk drives to minimize vibrational impact A method and an apparatus for determining cooling fan speeds that should be avoided to prevent vibational resonance with system enclosures, given ambient conditions, and/or current geographic altitude. An exemplary method to determine one or more ranges of fan speed... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7532951 | Method of automatically setting vibration suppression filter A filter is set by a control apparatus automatically detecting a vibration frequency and determining a filter to be needed, in a simple method that does not require a special process. A servo control apparatus which drives a servo motor includes a vibration d... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7489987 | Control of an active vibration isolation system Control of an active vibration isolation system with a digital controller, which includes an FPGA system (5) as the control unit. The FPGA system (5) is made up of freely programmable gate arrays with a sensor control matrix (51), which calculat... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7426426 | System and method for simultaneously controlling spectrum and kurtosis of a random vibration A system and method for producing and controlling a random signal with simultaneous control of both the power spectral density (PSD) and kurtosis (100) where a controlled signal is measured from a transducer, and converted to a PSD (111) using a Fast F... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7409268 | Method for actuating active vibration insulators A method for actuating active vibration insulators includes the steps of generating an idling control signal in an idling range of a vehicle, generating a running control signal in a running range of the vehicle, and actuating an electromagnetic actuator of an activ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409269 | Methods of analyzing the vibro-acoustic optimization potential and optimizing the vibro-acoustic behavior of a structure A method of analyzing the vibro-acoustic optimization potential of a structure of vibro-acoustically coupled subsystems having internal and coupling loss factors by means of statistical energy analysis (SEA). The method optimizes the vibro-acoustic behavior of the s... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400943 | Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving vibrational data from a plurality of locations distributed over an engine and a surrounding engine support structure, and inputting the vibrat... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7387017 | Digital Q control for enhanced measurement capability in cantilever-based instruments A digital system for controlling the quality factor in a resonant device. The resonant device can be any mechanically driven resonant device, but more particularly can be a device that includes a cantilever within its system, such as an atomic force microscope. The ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7381017 | Detecting and suppressing methods for milling tool chatter A detecting and suppressing control method for milling tool chatter. Milling parameters are defined. A milling device is initiated using the milling parameters. Milling signals are extracted using a sensor installed on the milling device. It is determined whether ch... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370829 | Method and system for controlling helicopter vibrations A method/system for controlling helicopter vibrations is provided that includes a vibration canceling force generator for actively generating a vibration canceling force. The system includes a resonant actuator having a natural resonant frequency and a resonant actu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363111 | Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving vibrational data from a plurality of locations distributed over an engine and a surrounding engine support structure, and inputting the vibrat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359789 | Control system for an internal combustion engine and a vehicle having the same The invention provides a control system for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle. The control system includes a sensor controller and an engine controller. The sensor controller includes a first interface configured to be connected to a sensor coupled to the e... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350394 | Zero-g offset identification of an accelerometer employed in a hard disk drive A method is provided for identifying offsets of accelerometers integrated into hard disk drives. More specifically, often, disk drives employ accelerometers that constantly monitor the acceleration felt by the disk drive. Once the accelerations are less than a prede... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352869 | Apparatus for and method of actively controlling vibratory noise, and vehicle with active vibratory noise control apparatus The filter coefficients of an adaptive notch filter are sequentially updated to minimize an error signal based on the error signal and a first reference signal which is produced by subtracting a signal which represents the product of a sine corrective value C1 | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340064 | Active noise control system An active noise control system is provided which cancels a noise using a secondary noise from a speaker that is operated in accordance with an output from an adaptive controller. The system is configured such that microphone monitor interrupts a switch to thereby st... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340065 | Active noise control system An active noise control system is provided which cancels a noise using a sound radiated from a speaker driven by an output from an adaptive notch filter. The system employs output signals from an adder or simulation cosine-wave and sine-wave signals, an error signal... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328621 | Method of processing oscillatory data A method of processing oscillatory response data from a resonant system includes: obtaining data measuring an oscillatory response of the system at a plurality of evenly spaced time intervals; obtaining a plurality of reference frequencies from the data at a plurali... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321809 | Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions Methods and systems for analyzing engine unbalance conditions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving vibrational data from a plurality of locations distributed over an engine and a surrounding engine support structure, and inputting the vibrat... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319954 | Multi-channel codebook dependent compensation Methods and apparatus, in the context of speech recognition, for compensating in the cepstral domain for the effect of an interfering signal by using a reference signal. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317260 | Wind flow estimation and tracking using tower dynamics A turbine control system for a variable speed electrical generator in a wind turbine mounted atop a support tower. The wind turbine converts wind energy into a driving torque applied to the generator. The control system includes a turbine support tower position sens... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311300 | Actuator drive control device for active vibration isolation support system, and method of using the same An actuator of an active engine vibration isolation support system is driven based on the first, second, third . . . duty groups calculated corresponding to the vibration periods t1, t2, t3 . . . of the engine. When the engine rotational speed v... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305094 | System and method for actively damping boom noise in a vibro-acoustic enclosure A system and method for actively damping boom noise within an enclosure such as an automobile cabin. The system comprises an acoustic wave sensor, a motion sensor, an acoustic wave actuator, a first electronic feedback loop, and a second electronic feedback loop. Th... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305297 | Controller for controlling a plant The present invention provides a controller for controlling a modeled plant robustly against disturbance. The controller comprises an estimator and a control unit. The estimator estimates disturbance applied to the plant. The control unit determines an input to the ... | 12/04/2007 |
