Control type vibro-isolating support

• US 5,647,579 A
• Filed: 03/27/1996
• Issued: 07/15/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Satoh, Shigeki
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Hezron E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MILLER, ROSE MARY
• Application Number:
  US08/622,414
• Time in Patent Office: 475 Days
• Field of Search: 73/662, 73/663, 73/664, 73/665, 248/550, 248/562, 248/636, 267/140.13, 267/140.14, 267/219, 364/424.05, 364/507, 364/508, 180/312, 188/380, 318/128
• US Class Current: 267/140.14
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 13/10 the wall being at least in part formed by a flexible membrane or the like F16F13/14 - F16F13/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 13/264 comprising means for acting dynamically on the walls bounding a working chamber
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0227 Qualitative history assessment, whereby the type of data acted upon, e.g. waveforms, images or patterns, is not relevant, e.g. rule based assessment; if-then decisions
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0235 based on a comparison with predetermined threshold or range, e.g. "classical methods", carried out during normal operation; threshold adaptation or choice; when or how to compare with the threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/024 Quantitative history assessment, e.g. mathematical relationships between available data; Functions therefor; Principal component analysis [PCA]; Partial least square [PLS]; Statistical classifiers, e.g. Bayesian networks, linear regression or correlation analysis; Neural networks
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/027 Alarm generation, e.g. communication protocol; Forms of alarm
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 19/02 characterised by the use of electric means

Abstract

A control type vibro-isolating support includes a pulse signal generator for generating reference signals x, which represent the state of the vibration being generated by an engine. An acceleration sensor detects residual vibration on the support member side, and generates a residual vibration signal e. A controller is supplied with the reference signals x and residual vibration signal e. On the basis of the reference signals x and residual vibration signal e and in accordance with, for example, synchronous filtered X LMS algorithm, the controller generates a drive signal y so as to lower the vibration level on the member side. An engine mount is interposed between the engine and the member, and has an electromagnetic actuator. The drive circuit for the actuator is supplied with the drive signal y. The controller judges that abnormality has occurred, if a maximum value of the residual vibration signal e exceeds a threshold, and if maximum values of the signal e have occurred at the same periodicity as the reference signals x.

Claims

1. A control type vibro-isolating support, comprising:

a source of control vibration which is interposed between a vibrator and a support body, and which can generate control vibration;

reference signal generation means for detecting the state of the vibration being generated by said vibrator, and for outputting a reference signal;

residual vibration detection means for detecting residual vibration on said support body side; and

for outputting a residual vibration signal;

control means for generating a drive signal for driving said source of control vibration on the basis of said reference signal and said residual vibration signal so as to damp the vibration on said support body side;

state detection means for detecting the state of said vibro-isolating support; and

abnormality judgment means for judging if there is abnormality on the basis of the detection result of said state detection means.

2. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 1, and further comprising alarm raising means for raising an alarm if said abnormality judgment means judges abnormality occurring.

3. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 1, wherein said vibrator generates periodic vibration.

4. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said state detection means comprises maximum/minimum detection means for detecting the maximum or minimum value of said residual vibration signal for each cycle of said reference signal, and wherein said abnormality judgment means judges if there is abnormality on the basis of the magnitude of said maximum or minimum value and the intervals at which the maximum or minimum values of said residual vibration signal have occurred for a plurality of cycles of said reference signal.

5. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 4, wherein:

said abnormality judgment means judges abnormality occurring if the modulus of said maximum or minimum value exceeds a specified threshold and if said maximum or minimum values have periodically occurred.

6. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 4, wherein:

said abnormality judgment means judges abnormality occurring if the modulus of said maximum or minimum value exceeds a specified threshold and if said maximum or minimum values have occurred at the same cycle as said reference signal.

7. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said state detection means comprises auto-correlation function operation means for finding the auto-correlation function of said residual vibration signal with a time lag which is an integral number of times as long as the period of said reference signal, and wherein said abnormality judgment means judges if there is abnormality on the basis of said auto-correlation function.

8. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 7, wherein:

said abnormality judgment means judges abnormality occurring if said auto-correlation function exceeds a specified threshold.

9. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said state detection means comprises cross-correlation function operation means for finding the cross-correlation function of said residual vibration signal and said drive signal, and wherein said abnormality judgment means judges if there is abnormality on the basis of said cross-correlation function.

10. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 9, wherein:

said abnormality judgment means judges abnormality occurring if said cross-correlation function exceeds a specified threshold.

11. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 9, wherein:

said abnormality judgment means judges abnormality occurring, which is higher-order divergence, if said cross-correlation function exceeds a specified threshold at a plurality of points within a time lag of which the maximum value is the period of said reference signal.

12. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said source of control vibration comprises a supporting elastic body interposed between said vibrator and said support body, a diaphragm, a movable member which can be magnetized and is elastically supported so as to form part of said diaphragm, a fluid chamber defined at least partially by said supporting elastic body and said diaphragm, fluid in said chamber, and an electromagnetic actuator for operation in response to said drive signal to displace said movable member so as to change the volume of said chamber.

13. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 12, wherein:

said state detection means comprises clearance detection means for detecting the clearance between said movable member and said electromagnetic actuator, and wherein said abnormality judgment means judges if said source of control vibration is abnormal on the basis of said clearance.

14. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 13, wherein:

said electromagnetic actuator includes an exciting coil, and wherein said clearance detection means comprises induced voltage detection means for detecting voltage induced under no control in said coil if said vibrator vibrates and if said actuator is not supplied with said drive signal.

15. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 14, wherein:

said abnormality judgment means judges that abnormality has occurred, which is decrease in said clearance, in said source of control vibration if the maximum or minimum value of said voltage induced under no control exceeds a specified value.

16. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 14, wherein:

said abnormality judgment means judges that abnormality has occurred, which is increase in said clearance, in said source of control vibration if the maximum or minimum value of said voltage induced under no control is less than a specified value.

17. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 12, wherein:

said electromagnetic actuator comprises an exciting coil, and wherein said state detection means comprises induced voltage detection means for detecting voltage induced under no control in said coil if said vibrator vibrates and if said actuator is not supplied with said drive signal, said abnormality judgment means judging said source of control vibration abnormal if said voltage induced under no control is zero.

18. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 12, wherein:

said electromagnetic actuator includes an exciting coil, and wherein said state detection means comprises maximum current value detection means for detecting the maximum value of the control current actually flowing through said coil, said abnormality judgment means judging said actuator in a high temperature state if the maximum value of said control current is less than a specified threshold.

19. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 18, and further comprising:

control current correction means for lowering the maximum value of said control current if said abnormality judgment means judges said electromagnetic actuator in a high temperature state.

20. The vibro-isolating support claimed in claim 12, wherein:

said source of control vibration has an orifice and an auxiliary fluid chamber of variable volume, which communicates through said orifice with the first-mentioned fluid chamber, and wherein said chambers and said orifice are filled with said fluid.