Abstract: A “passive-active” mount includes an emanator-securement plate, a foundation-securement plate, at least one elastomeric “streamlined resilient element,” and at least one collocated motion sensor-vibratory actuator pair. The mount brings to bear, sequentially and complementarily, passive vibration control followed by active vibration as control. The passive vibration control is effectuated by one or more “streamlined resilient elements,” each attributed with a “constant natural frequency” (CNF) property whereby such element is naturally predisposed to passively reducing vibration at a particular frequency band regardless of the extent of the loading, within certain limits, to which such element is being subjected.

Abstract: The invention is uniquely "passive-active" in that it brings to bear, sequentially and complementarily, passive vibration control followed by active vibration control. A conventional mount (such as an air mount) is accommodated so as to include, at the mount's foundation-securing plate, at least one motion sensor and at least one vibratory actuator. Each sensor is correlated with an actuator. For each sensor-actuator pair, the electrical feedback loop includes generation by the sensor of a signal resulting from the local vibration of the foundation-securing plate, generation by a processor/controller of a signal derived from the sensor's signal, and exertion upon the foundation-securing plate by the sensor's paired actuator of a vibratory force commanded by the processor/controller's signal. Many preferred embodiments of the inventive apparatus, system and method collocate each sensor with its paired actuator and implement a conventional vibration suppression algorithm involving collocated velocity feedback.

Abstract: The inventively advanced mount accommodates a conventional mount (such as an air mount) so as to include, at the mount's foundation-securing plate, at least one motion sensor and at least one vibratory actuator. Each sensor is correlated with an actuator. For each sensor-actuator pair, the electrical feedback loop includes generation by the sensor of a signal resulting from the local vibration of the foundation-securing plate, generation by a processor/controller of a signal derived from the sensor's signal, and exertion upon the foundation-securing plate by the sensor's paired actuator of a vibratory force commanded by the processor/controller's signal. Many preferred inventive embodiments collocate each sensor with its paired actuator and implement a conventional vibration suppression algorithm involving collocated velocity feedback. The inventive "passive-active" mount uniquely brings to bear, sequentially and complementarily, passive vibration control followed by active vibration control.