Electromagnetic motor and active vibration-controlling apparatus including at least one such motor

• US 6,064,129 A
• Filed: 07/29/1999
• Issued: 05/16/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hutchinson (Welltower, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hutchinson (Welltower, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pompei, Michel
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Nestor
• Assistant Examiner(s): Waks, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US09/362,685
• Time in Patent Office: 292 Days
• Field of Search: 310/12, 310/15, 310/24, 310/34, 310/35, 310/81, 318/611
• US Class Current: 310/12.01
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 5/1283 Adjustable supports, e.g. the mounting or the characteristics being adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 15/03 using magnetic or electromagnetic means F16F9/53, F16F15/005 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2201/18 Machines moving with multiple degrees of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 33/12 with armatures moving in alternate directions by alternate energisation of two coil systems

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electromagnetic motor, in particular a linear motor, and to active vibration-control apparatus including at least one such motor. Said motor has a plurality of actuators, at least of which are disposed side by side and operate in alternation to exert forces in opposite directions.

Claims

1. An electromagnetic motor comprising a plurality of actuators, and having at least two actuators disposed side by side and alternately exerting forces in opposite directions, the motor including at least four parallel axis actuators, comprising two first actuators exerting a force in a first direction, and two other actuators exerting forces in the opposite direction.

2. A motor according to claim 1, wherein the two first actuators and the two other actuators are disposed symmetrically about the working axis of the actuator.

3. A motor according to claim 1, wherein said motor is a linear motor.

4. A motor according to claim 1, wherein the actuators are electromagnets.

5. A motor according to claim 1, including a plate receiving the various actuators and forming the inertial mass of the motor.

6. A motor according to claim 1, including actuators making it possible, on command, to displace the moving equipment along three orthogonal axes.

7. A motor according to claim 1, including a housing or case suitable for receiving a vibration-absorbing stud, and including means for fixing said stud.

8. A motor according to claim 1, including a central recess for receiving a vibration-absorbing stud.

9. Apparatus for active vibration control, the apparatus comprising a vibration sensor that acquires the vibrations to be eliminated, and controller means for generating actuator-control signals in real time, the apparatus including at least one motor according to claim 1 generating vibrations under the control of the controller means, which vibrations are equal in amplitude and opposite in phase relative to the vibrations that are to be controlled.