Abstract: A vibration actuator that can prevent reduction of vibration performance and durability of the vibration actuator and that can prevent occurrence of operation failure and noise when the vibration actuator had impact from the outside is provided. The vibration actuator includes a cylindrical casing having a first coil and a second coil, a movable element arranged inside the casing and having a magnet, and a first inner guide and a second inner guide arranged between the first coil and the second coil, and the movable element 4 and having extending portions and which sandwich and hold a part of the first coil and the second coil together with the casing.

Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle having a steering shaft mounted in a steering column tube so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis and a damping device. The damping device has an element which is stationary in relation to the steering column tube and a rotatable element which is coupled in terms of rotation to the steering shaft. The rotatable element is rotatable relative to the stationary element about an axis of rotation. A damping fluid is arranged between the rotatable and the stationary element. The steering column thus permits operationally reliable damping of the steering shaft in a steering system. At least two surfaces of the rotatable element are provided, which are parallel to the axis of rotation, are in contact with the damping fluid, and are arranged so as to be spaced apart coaxially from one another.

Abstract: A vibration reduction system includes a base, a carrier element, and a plurality of actuator systems extending between the base and the carrier element, the plurality of actuator systems arranged to apply forces to the carrier element in multiple axes to reduce vibration of the carrier element, each actuator system of the plurality of actuator systems including a pneumatic actuator and an electric actuator.

Abstract: A landing gear control apparatus for an air mobility vehicle may include a shaft of the landing gear control apparatus, the shaft deployed when the air mobility vehicle is landing or driving; a tire provided at one end portion of the shaft; a steering rod coupled to the shaft in a direction crossing a longitudinal direction of the shaft to steer the tire by rotating the shaft; a rotation load sensor mounted on the steering rod and sensing a rotation load applied to the steering rod; a MR damper coupled to the shaft to surround thereof, having a MR fluid filled in the damper, and configured for changing, by the controller, a damping force of the MR damper for rotation of the shaft according to a current applied to the MR damper; and a controller for controlling a current applied to the MR damper on the basis of the rotation load detected by the rotation load sensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an efficient vibration reduction and isolation base supported by a chained panel fluid bladder, including a chained panel, the vibration reduction fluid bladder, vertical limiting devices and a bottom plate. The chained panel is a discontinuous structure formed by connecting chained substructure panels in series by panel hinge devices. The vibration reduction fluid bladder and the vertical limiting devices are fixedly installed between the chained panel and the bottom plate. The chained panel is constructed based on the impedance mismatch principle and provided with a mechanical device. Mechanical vibration energy is dissipated twice by the chained panel and the vibration reduction fluid bladder, thereby greatly reducing influences of mechanical device operation on a hull structure.

Abstract: An oscillatory actuator 1 includes a cylindrical case 2, an electromagnetic driver 3, a mover 4, a first damper 40a, and an inner guide 6a. The electromagnetic driver 3 is provided inside the case 2. The mover 4 is enabled to oscillate through driving by the electromagnetic driver 3. The first damper 40a has a plurality of arms 52a supporting the mover 4 from an inner surface of the case 2. The inner guide 6a is provided on the inner surface of the case 2 and restricts movement of the first damper 40a beyond a predetermined range. The inner guide 6a is located further toward a center of the case 2 than the first damper 40a in a direction of an oscillation axis ? of the mover 4.

Abstract: An electromechanical vehicle height adjustment unit comprises an upper spring pad operative to support an upper end of a vehicle spring, a top mount that is displaceable relative to the upper spring pad, and a displacement mechanism coupled to the upper spring pad and the top mount and operative to displace the top mount relative to the upper spring pad in a height direction. The displacement mechanism comprises a rotary-to-linear motion conversion mechanism and an electric motor.

Abstract: A suspension device includes: a hydraulic damper including a rod provided with a valve for generating a hydraulic pressure when the rod is displaced between a first liquid chamber and a second liquid chamber; and an electric damper configured to electrically displace the rod by an actuator. The electric damper includes: an outer cylinder; an inner cylinder; a piston provided on the rod and configured to stroke in the inner cylinder; and a communication passage disposed inside the inner cylinder at a central portion where the piston strokes. The communication passage establishes communication between the first liquid chamber at one axial end side of the piston and the second liquid chamber at another axial end side of the piston.

Abstract: In a method of creating a database for preview vibration damping control, road surface displacement-associated information detected by a detection device is acquired, positional information capable of identifying a position where the road surface displacement-associated information is detected is acquired, a road surface displacement-associated value associated with a vertical displacement of a road surface is calculated based on the road surface displacement-associated information, and a set of data obtained by linking the road surface displacement-associated value and the positional information with each other is stored into a storage device as part of a database. When it is determined that the magnitude of the road surface displacement-associated value exceeds a permissible reference value set in advance, the magnitude of the road surface displacement-associated value is corrected in a reducing manner, prior to the step of storing the set of data into the storage device.

Abstract: A magnetorheological fluid with balanced viscosity and sedimentation properties includes: a magnetic material; a medium to allow the magnetic material to be dispersed therein; a dispersant to disperse the magnetic material within the medium while forming a magnetic material holding structure to hold the magnetic material; and a reinforcing agent to reinforce the magnetic material holding structure. An amount of the magnetic material is 25 wt % to 75 wt % relative to a sum of the medium and the magnetic material. An amount of the medium is 25 wt % to 75 wt % relative to the sum of the medium and the magnetic material. An amount of the dispersant is 0.5 wt % to 6 wt % relative to the sum of the medium and the magnetic material. An amount of the reinforcing agent is 5 wt % to 300 wt % relative to a weight of the dispersant.

Abstract: A powertrain component mount includes a housing, a main rubber element, a hydraulic body, a membrane and a valve. The main rubber element has an outer armature, an inner armature and an isolating element coupled to the armatures, the isolating element being formed of a material that is more flexible than the outer armature and the inner armature, wherein the main rubber element defines at least part of a fluid flow path. The hydraulic body supports the outer armature of the main rubber element, defines part of the fluid flow path, a fluid chamber, and part of a control chamber communicated with the fluid flow path. The hydraulic body has a port open to the control chamber. The membrane defines part of the control chamber and the valve has a valve head movable between a first position closing the port and a second position spaced from the port.

Abstract: The problem of addressing vibrational disturbances in mechanical positioning systems is addressed by systems and methods that use a combination of active vibration dampening and passive vibration dampening. A system described herein generally comprises a mechanical positioning system; a payload; and a vibration dampening module coupled to the mechanical position system and to the payload. The vibration dampening module generally comprises an active vibration dampener and/or a passive vibration dampener.

Abstract: A hydromount for mounting a motor vehicle unit is disclosed. The hydromount includes a supporting spring supporting a mount core and surrounding a working chamber, and a compensation chamber separated from the working chamber by a dividing wall and delimited by a compensation diaphragm. In embodiments, the compensation chamber and the working chamber are filled with a liquid and are connected by a damping duct incorporated into the dividing wall. In an embodiment, the dividing wall has two dividing plates between which a diaphragm is accommodated in a manner capable of oscillating. In an embodiment, the diaphragm and the dividing wall delimit an air chamber connected to the environment via an opening in the dividing wall, and the opening can be unblocked and closed by a switchable non-return device having a pressure-actuatable non-return valve with an opening pressure set to or having an oscillation amplitude of the diaphragm.

Abstract: The fluid supply device comprises a screw, which has a male thread formed thereon and rotates, and a nut, which has a female thread formed therein that meshes with the male threading and which, by the screw rotating in a first direction, i.e., the circumferential direction, moves towards a first end in the rotation axis direction, and which, by moving with said movement a piston that forms a reservoir chamber, discharges a fluid stored in the reservoir chamber, wherein, if the fluid is discharged and if the screw is not rotating, first surfaces which form the threading of the male screw and second surfaces which form the threading of the female screw are in contact with each other, and second surfaces which form the threading of the male screw and first surfaces which form the threading of the female screw are not in contact with each other.

Abstract: An arrangement of a microlithographic optical imaging device includes first and supporting structures. The first supporting structure supports an optical element of the imaging device. The first supporting structure supports the second supporting structure via supporting spring devices of a vibration decoupling device. The supporting spring devices act kinematically parallel to one another between the first and second supporting structures. Each supporting spring device defines a supporting force direction and a supporting length along the supporting force direction. The second supporting structure supports a measuring device configured to measure the position and/or orientation of the optical element in relation to a reference in at least one degree of freedom and up to all six degrees of freedom in space. A creep compensation device compensates a change in a static relative situation between the first and second supporting structures in at least one correction degree of freedom.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a drone having selectively actuated arms. In one embodiment, a drone includes arms connected to a body. Individual ones of the arms have a first end and a second end with the first end forming a connection with the body. The drone further includes rotor units individually including a propeller attached to a motor and mounted to the second end of the individual ones of the arms. Additionally, actuator units are integrated with the arms. Individual ones of the actuator units include electromagnetic cells that when activated induce an electromagnetic motive force that flexes the arms.

Abstract: A liquid seal bushing includes an outer member, an inner member, and an elastic body which connects the outer member and the inner member to each other. The bushing includes two liquid chambers, a connection path which connects the two liquid chambers and extends in one direction, a first communication path which allows communication between one end portion of both end portions of the connection path, the one end portion being located on a side of one liquid chamber of the two liquid chambers, and the other liquid chamber, a second communication path which allows communication between the other end portion of the both end portions of the connection path, and a linear motor provided inside the outer member including a movable element in the connection path and movable in the one direction to closes both openings of the first communication path and the second communication path.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) magnetic damping shock absorber based on an eddy current effect, comprising a lower plate, a ring-shaped magnet a, a ring-shaped magnet b, an aluminum cylinder, a bottom copper sheet, a copper sheet, a top copper sheet, a bearing seat, a linear bearing, a bearing end cap, a load, a piston shaft, a stepped shaft, a fixed collar, a coil spring, a lower clamping shaft, and fixing screws. When the shock absorber is working, the ring-shaped magnet a keeps stationary at the lower end and the ring-shaped magnet b reciprocates in the vertical direction. Both magnets are arranged in a mutual attraction manner. Under the action of a time-varying electromagnetic field generated by the relative movement of the ring-shaped magnet b, the copper sheet arranged between the two ring-shaped magnets generates eddy current damping. The movement of the ring-shaped magnet b is inhibited.

Abstract: A method for controlling a semi-active engine mount is provided to increase both NVH performance and driving performance of a vehicle and reduce noise and vibration generated under specific driving conditions. The method includes storing real-time vehicle speed data at intervals of a predetermined time and determining whether an engine is in an idling state. In response to determining that the engine is in the idling state, determining whether a current driving state of the vehicle corresponds to predetermined conditions in which noise and vibration performance is prioritized based on vehicle speed change information. The semi-active engine mount is adjusted to be in an on state, upon determining that the current driving state of the vehicle in the idling state of the engine corresponds to the predetermined conditions.

Abstract: A vehicle sink alert method and system that includes collecting image data, determining field conditions, calculating wheel sink depth, predicting vehicle sink events using wheel sink depth and field conditions, and activating an alert when a vehicle sink event is predicted. The method can include predicting vehicle sink events using GPS coordinates and historical vehicle sink data. The method can include determining and using vehicle motion to predict vehicle sink events. Predicting vehicle sink events can include forming a multi-dimensional model with positive sink points where vehicle sink events have occurred and negative sink points where vehicle sink events have not occurred; generating a current vehicle point using monitored and calculated data; determining whether the current vehicle point is within a positive sink region formed by the positive sink points; and predicting a vehicle sink event if the current vehicle point is within the positive sink region.

Abstract: Disclosed is a linear vibration motor including a housing, a vibrator assembly, and a driving assembly. The housing is provided with a circuit board. The vibration assembly is disposed in the housing. A through hole is defined in the vibration assembly along the thickness of the housing. The driving assembly is disposed in the through hole and fixedly connected to the housing. The driving assembly includes an iron core and a coil. The iron core includes an intermediate shaft extending along the length of the housing and two end blocks disposed at two ends of the intermediate shaft. The cross-sectional area of the intermediate shaft is smaller than the cross-sectional area of each of the two end blocks. The coil is sleeved on the intermediate shaft and connected to the circuit board.

Abstract: Proposed is a vibration damping device for a vehicle as an engine mount for a vehicle, wherein the vibration damping device solves the problem of vibration increase which may occur in the natural frequency of a rubber insulator by allowing the rubber insulator to have a plurality of unit insulation bodies having different natural frequencies, wherein the vibration damping device for a vehicle includes a center core, and the rubber insulator having an insulation body provided between the center core and a cylindrical casing, wherein the insulation body includes a plurality of separation grooves formed therein to have shapes extending in radial directions such that the insulation body is divided into a plurality of unit insulation bodies along a circumferential direction of the insulation body.

Abstract: An adhering substance removing device is configured to remove adhering substances on an exterior member of a vehicle body. The device includes a vibration generator and a vibration transmitting member. The vibration generator is configured to generate vibrations. The vibration transmitting member includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface faces the exterior member. The second surface is inclined with an acute angle relative to the first surface. The vibration generator is mounted on the second surface. The vibration transmitting member is softer than the exterior member. The vibration transmitting member is configured to generate surface waves that advance in a predetermined direction in the exterior member.

Abstract: A vibration-damping device including: a first mounting member configured to be mounted to one of components of a vibration transmission system; a second mounting member configured to be mounted to an other of the components of the vibration transmission system; a main rubber elastic body connecting the first mounting member and the second mounting member elastically to each other; a bracket attached to the second mounting member, the bracket having a mounting part configured to be mounted to the other of the components of the vibration transmission system; a tubular outer member secured press-fit to the second mounting member; a mass member disposed within the tubular outer member; and a support rubber fixed at an outer peripheral part of the mass member, the support rubber elastically connecting the tubular outer member and the mass member to constitute a dynamic damper.

Abstract: A bearing bushing for a motor vehicle includes a sleeve, a bolt arranged inside the sleeve, and at least one elastomer element arranged radially between the sleeve and the bolt for supporting the bolt in the sleeve in a damping manner. The bolt has a ball element axially between two distal ends, wherein the ball element interacts with at least two movable ball socket elements in order to change the stiffness of the bearing bushing. This allows the bearing bushing can be switched between at least two stiffness levels.

Abstract: An active engine mount for a vehicle may include a support bracket connected to an engine; an actuator assembly integrally coupled to the support bracket and including a magnet and a coil that electromagnetically interact with each other; and a rubber assembly mounted to a vehicle body by a mounting bracket and configured to absorb vibration via a main rubber, wherein in a state in which the actuator assembly is located above the rubber assembly, a housing of the rubber assembly is fastened to the support bracket, and wherein the magnet is connected to the main rubber of the rubber assembly to enable transfer of force.

Abstract: A hydraulic mount apparatus comprises a housing having an upper portion and a lower portion and defining a housing chamber. A partition member disposed therein and divides the housing chamber into a pumping chamber and a receiving chamber. A decoupler including a magnetic actuator is attached to the partition member. A moving member is disposed in the pumping chamber and attached to the decoupler. The moving member includes at least two magnetic inserts disposed therein, spaced from one another, to move the moving member from a first position to a second position in response to a magnetic field. The first position is defined as the moving member being spaced from the decoupler. The second position is defined as the moving member being attached to the decoupler.

Abstract: The spring includes an elastic member having a liquid accommodating chamber. The sealing member includes a base plate, a pressure plate, and a pressure elastic membrane provided in the liquid accommodating chamber. The pressure elastic membrane has a lip portion radially extending from an end portion of the pressure elastic membrane. The lip portion is provided with a projection. The pressure plate and the base plate define a clamping recess together. The lip portion is pressed in the clamping recess to seal the liquid accommodating chamber.

Abstract: Flows of magnetorheological fluid inside a mount are controlled to be stopped in the direction of the axis of the mount and in directions perpendicular to the axis by applying coil excitation current to an exciting coil, and thus the elastic properties of the mount are adjusted such that the mount is hardened in the axial direction and in the directions perpendicular to the axis. As a result, a variable damping force can be exerted on the external forces applied to the mount in the axial direction and in the directions perpendicular to the axis.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control apparatus for an electric vehicle that can prevent or reduce a shock when the vehicle starts running from a stopped state. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a first vibration damping control torque calculated by a first calculation method based on a signal of a wheel speed sensor, or a second vibration damping control torque calculated by a second calculation method based on a signal other than the signal of the wheel speed sensor is selectively output.

Abstract: A system and a method that isolate a payload from the effects of vibrations by providing an active feedback path that enhances the isolation performance of a passive vibration isolation system at all relevant frequencies. The system comprises a kinematic arrangement of three bipod pairs of hybrid isolation struts to produce a fully kinematic suspension system. The active enhancement mechanism incorporates accelerometer feedback on each of the six hybrid isolation struts, blended with relative displacement measurements, to produce a transfer function that provides a specified alignment of a suspended component (with another component) at low frequency, but inertial stabilization at high frequency. Passive roll-off is produced by a series of disc flexures in each hybrid isolation strut.

Abstract: An engine mount includes: an insulator disposed in a case which has a liquid chamber; an orifice plate dividing the liquid chamber into an upper liquid chamber and a lower liquid chamber, the orifice plate dividing the upper liquid chamber together with the insulator and having an orifice therein for inducing flow of fluid between the upper liquid chamber and the lower liquid chamber; and a diaphragm disposed under the orifice plate inside the case, the diaphragm dividing the lower liquid chamber together with the orifice plate. The orifice plate has a direct passage for enabling the upper liquid chamber and the lower liquid chamber to directly communicate with each other so that liquid flows between the upper liquid chamber and the lower liquid chamber, and includes an opening/closing piston for opening or closing the direct passage.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator including: an outer tubular member and an inner axial member connected by an elastic member; a coil member attached to the outer tubular member generating electromagnetic force through energization thereto; a magnet member attached to the inner axial member and subjected to the electromagnetic force to exert axial driving force between the inner axial member and the outer tubular member; a first support section provided at the outer tubular member to axially clamp and securely support the coil member; a synthetic resin annular member housed within the outer tubular member including a power feed terminal to the coil member; and a second support section provided at the outer tubular member to axially clamp and securely support the annular member in such a parallel structure that clamping force by the first support section is not exerted on the second support section.

Abstract: A mount system for mounting a first component of a vehicle to a second component of the vehicle can include a tube portion and a shaft portion. The tube portion can include a first outer magnet support portion provided with an inwardly facing magnet that is parallel to a centerline; and a second outer magnet support portion provided with an inwardly facing magnet set that includes magnets oblique to the centerline. The shaft portion can include a first inner magnet support portion, oriented about the centerline, provided with an outwardly facing magnet that is parallel to the centerline; and a second inner magnet support portion provided with an outwardly facing magnet set that includes magnets oblique to the centerline.

Abstract: Vibration damping device comprising two armatures and an elastomer body that connects armatures together and which delimits a first hydraulic chamber that communicates with a second hydraulic chamber that can be deformed by a constricted passage. A sealed box, integral with the second armature, contains a control device and an actuator. The box is sealed and comprises at least one flexible wall separating from the atmosphere, the interior space of the box.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic bearing (2) comprising a bearing spring (36), a working chamber (4) that is at least partially surrounded by the bearing spring (36) and that is filled with a hydraulic fluid, a first compensation chamber (6) and a first restrictor channel (10) for exchanging hydraulic fluid, said channel being formed between the working chamber (4) and the first compensation chamber (6). The hydraulic bearing (2) has a controllable valve (34) for shutting-off or restricting the flow of hydraulic fluid through the first restrictor channel (10). The invention also relates to a motor vehicle comprising a hydraulic bearing (2) of this type.

Abstract: A vibration isolator includes a housing forming an internal cavity, an elastomeric diaphragm within the internal cavity, the elastomeric diaphragm combining with a first end of the housing to form an air spring within the internal cavity, a mechanical spring in series with the air spring within the internal cavity; a mount in series with the mechanical spring opposite the air spring, an annular elastomeric stopper between a second end of the housing and the mount, wherein the mount and the annular elastomeric stopper combine to seal the second end of the housing to form a chamber within the internal cavity between the elastomeric diaphragm and the second end of the housing, and a plate seated on the mount within the chamber.

Abstract: A computer of an active vibration damping device calculates an output average duty ratio which is used for realizing operation command values. On the basis of the operation command values and an integer value point number, which is set so as to become larger as a period of rotation of the drive source becomes longer, the computer calculates a reference average duty ratio for realizing the operation command values when an actuator internal temperature is a reference temperature. The computer calculates the actuator internal temperature on the basis of a deviation between the output average duty ratio and the reference average duty ratio.

Abstract: Provided is an active engine mount having a vent hole that includes a damper assembly including an exciter. The damper assembly in the active engine mount which controls pressure of a main chamber as the exciter is excited has a vent hole that enables communication from a lower part of the exciter to the outside formed thereon such that air inside the damper assembly can be discharged to the outside.

Abstract: A vibration-damping electromagnetic actuator including: a tubular stator; a movable member displaceable relative to the stator in an axial direction, and being inserted in the stator; a housing including a tubular peripheral wall and being attached to the stator; a support rubber elastic body elastically connecting the movable member to the housing; and a coil member and an armature displaceable relative to the coil member disposed at one and the other of the stator and the movable member respectively. The stator is arranged in an inner periphery of the peripheral wall, and a gap is provided between the peripheral wall and the stator in an axis-perpendicular direction. The stator is attached to the housing in a state aligned with the movable member by means of displacement of the stator relative to the housing in the axis-perpendicular direction.

Abstract: A fluid-filled vibration-damping device including: a first mounting member; a second mounting member; a main rubber elastic body elastically connecting the two mounting members; a fluid chamber whose wall is constituted by the main rubber elastic body at a portion and by a flexible film at another portion, the fluid chamber being filled with a non-compressible fluid; a fixation member being attached to an outer peripheral rim of the flexible film and being disposed inside or outside the tubular second mounting member such that the fixation member is superposed to the second mounting member in an axis-perpendicular direction; an insertion hole formed in the second mounting member and the fixation member; and a positioning member inserted through the insertion hole so as to relatively position the second mounting member and the fixation member at a scaling position by axial locking.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic bearing (2) with a support spring (36), a working chamber (4) which is at least partly surrounded by the support spring (36) and which is filled with a hydraulic fluid, a control membrane (12) which is designed to change a working chamber volume of the working chamber (4), and an electromagnetic actuator (16) for deflecting the control membrane (12), wherein the actuator (16) comprises a stator (18) and an armature (20) which can be moved in the longitudinal direction L of the stator (18); the armature (20) is mechanically connected to the control membrane (12); the stator (18) has a stator conductive element (26) made of a ferromagnetic material; the stator conductive element (26) has an upper stator collar (32) which extends in the transverse direction Q of the stator (18) and a lower stator collar (28) which extends in the transverse direction Q of the stator (18); the armature (20) has an armature conductive element (72) made of a ferromagnetic material; the armature c

Abstract: An engine mount is provided in which a nozzle plate is mounted between an insulator and a diaphragm to divide an inner space into an upper liquid chamber and a lower liquid chamber. A hydraulic liquid flows between the upper and lower liquid chambers through a first flow path formed on the nozzle plate based on a change in volume in the engine mount. The nozzle plate which includes a second flow path having an outlet disposed at an upper end of the second flow path and in communication with the upper liquid chamber. A diaphragm is coupled to a lower portion of the nozzle plate to form the lower liquid chamber, and divides the lower liquid chamber into a main liquid chamber and an auxiliary liquid chamber. Additionally, a valve plate is seated at an upper side of the upper end of the second flow path.

Abstract: Each time identification information specific to each of wheels is received, a rotation position of each of the wheels is obtained and accumulated as rotation position data of each wheel with respect to each piece of identification information. Then, with respect to all the identification information, when a first tentative mounting position and a second tentative mounting position are the same in a vehicle width direction and different from each other in a vehicle longitudinal direction, the first and second tentative mounting positions being mounting positions of two of the wheels where a smallest degree of dispersion and a second smallest degree of dispersion are detected, and when the first tentative mounting position determined for each piece of the identification information is different from one another, each first tentative mounting position is determined as the mounting position of each of the wheels corresponding to the identification information, respectively.

Abstract: A roll mount is provided and includes a rubber coupled to a core mounted in an exterior pipe coupled to an end of a main body, slits that are formed in the rubber at the periphery of the core, and a pocket that is disposed within the slits. The pocket includes a first pocket portion having a first and second chamber formed therein and connecting portions having flow paths that connect the first and second pocket portion and place the first and second chamber in fluid communication. A magnetorheological fluid is encapsulated in the first and second chamber, and flows therethrough, via the flow paths based on elastic deformation of the first and second pocket portion. The wound coils are disposed at exterior sides of the first and second pocket portions, and fluidity of the magnetorheological fluid is adjusted based on the electric current applied to the coil.

Abstract: A system for reducing the effect of a force includes a panel having a first side and a second side; a plurality of contact members disposed around a perimeter of the panel first side; and a biasing member positioned around a perimeter of the panel second side. The perimeter of the panel second side generally corresponds to the perimeter of the panel first side. The biasing member biases the contact members toward the panel first side. In a use configuration, a force received by the panel second side is at least partially transferred to the contact members causing at least one of the contact members to temporarily lose contact with the panel first side, whereby the return of the contact member into contact with the panel first side imparts a second force onto the panel first side, the second force being less than the force transferred to the contact members.

Abstract: A bracket-equipped vibration-damping device including: a vibration-damping device main unit including first and second mounting members disposed separately from each other vertically and connected by a main rubber elastic body mutually and elastically; and a bracket mounted to the device main unit in a state that the bracket is fixed to the second mounting member inserted into the bracket laterally. A guide part of the second mounting member is inserted into a guide groove of the bracket extending in an insertion direction to be positioned vertically. The bracket includes a compression wall surface superposed to at least one of upper and lower end surfaces of the device main unit. A groove width inner surface of the guide groove opposite vertically to the compression wall surface is tilted to the compression wall surface so that the surfaces approach each other vertically toward the insertion direction.

Abstract: A vibration-damping device (10) of the invention includes a tubular first attachment member (11) and a second attachment member (12); an elastic body (13); a partitioning member (17) that forms a main liquid chamber (14), a first auxiliary liquid chamber (15), and a second auxiliary liquid chamber (16); a first diaphragm (18) that constitutes a portion of the wall surface of the first auxiliary liquid chamber (15); and a second diaphragm (19) that constitutes a portion of the wall surface of the second auxiliary liquid chamber (16) and that has a smaller deformation resistance than the deformation resistance of the first diaphragm (18).

Abstract: In a gyro sensor, a TDC detects a magnitude of vibration of a vibrator. A drive circuit (excluding the TDC) determines a duty ratio of a PWM drive signal in accordance with the magnitude of vibration so that the magnitude of vibration becomes a predetermined magnitude and outputs the PWM drive signal having the determined duty ratio. The drive circuit (excluding the TDC) includes a control circuit and a DCO. The control circuit measures time corresponding to the control value by using a gate delay time, generates the PWM drive signal having a pulse width corresponding to the control value and outputs the PWM drive signal.

Abstract: An active engine mount for a vehicle includes an upper body which has a main rubber and an upper liquid chamber, and a lower body which is coupled to a lower portion of the upper body. An orifice circular plate divides an interior of the upper and lower bodies into the upper liquid chamber and a lower liquid chamber inside the upper and lower bodies, and has an orifice through which a fluid flows between the upper and lower liquid chambers. A diaphragm is installed below the orifice circular plate inside the upper and lower bodies, and forms the lower liquid chamber. A semi-active mount is in contact with a central portion of the diaphragm by a plunger inside the lower body, and operates by an electromagnet.