MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR FORMED BY A NETWORK OF BASIC OSCILLATORS
First Claim
1. Mechanical oscillator including a network of cells joined together, each of the cells being a basic oscillator (18) including a deformable closed-contour beam (3), and deformable linking beams (19, 20) joining the closed-contour beams (3), characterised in that the closed-contour beams (3) are deformable, the linking beams (19, 20) extend over rows along a plurality of cells and the oscillator includes anchoring points (21, 22) for anchoring the linking beams to a stationary substrate, which are arranged along each linking beam according to a periodic pattern allowing a step equal to a multiple of the length of a cell.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A basic oscillator (18) with two masses (1, 2) oscillating out of phase by means of a closed-contour coupling beam (3) is arranged in a plurality of sets in a generally linear or two-dimensional network, with linking beams (19, 20) passing through the rows of the network in order to join the oscillators and the anchoring points (21) for anchoring to a substrate. This network enables the propagation of data or disturbances and the energy dissipated by it is very low.
14 Citations
9 Claims
- 1. Mechanical oscillator including a network of cells joined together, each of the cells being a basic oscillator (18) including a deformable closed-contour beam (3), and deformable linking beams (19, 20) joining the closed-contour beams (3), characterised in that the closed-contour beams (3) are deformable, the linking beams (19, 20) extend over rows along a plurality of cells and the oscillator includes anchoring points (21, 22) for anchoring the linking beams to a stationary substrate, which are arranged along each linking beam according to a periodic pattern allowing a step equal to a multiple of the length of a cell.
Specification