Vibration reducing device

• US 7,715,949 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2007
• Issued: 05/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Sato, Yusuke, Nunome, Yoshimi, Fujikane, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Ramesh B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee; Douglas S
• Application Number:
  US11/976,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20080103628A1
• Time in Patent Office: 930 Days
• Field of Search: 700/275, 700/280, 702/183, 340/679, 736/69, 188/378
• US Class Current: 700/280
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 2200/09 Fuel-injection apparatus having means for reducing noise
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 2200/21 Fuel-injection apparatus with piezoelectric or magnetostrictive elements
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 2200/302 using electrical means
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 61/14 Arrangements of injectors with respect to engines; Mounting of injectors
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 15/02 Suppression of vibrations of non-rotating, e.g. reciprocating systems; Suppression of vibrations of rotating systems by use of members not moving with the rotating systems F16F15/005 takes precedence ; layered products B32B; suppression of vibration in ships B63; relieving load on bearings, using magnetic means F16C39/06

Abstract

A vibration reducing device that reduces the vibration of a control object includes a digital controller. A vibration state detection device detects the vibration of the control object and generates an analog signal of the vibration of the control object. An input-side bandpass filter has a passband that is narrower than a frequency range from a Nyquist frequency to a sampling frequency of the digital controller, and that contains no frequencies that are an integer multiple of the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller. The input-side bandpass filter allows a part of the analog signal that falls within the passband from the analog signal generated by the vibration state detection device to pass. An A/D conversion device converts the analog signal that has passed through the input-side bandpass filter into a digital signal. A D/A conversion device converts a digital feedback control signal, determined by the digital controller on the basis of the digital signal converted by the A/D conversion device, into an analog feedback control signal. An actuator applies vibration to the control object on the basis of the analog feedback control signal converted by the D/A conversion device.

Claims

1. A vibration reducing device that reduces the vibration of a control object by a digital controller, the vibration reducing device comprising:

a vibration state detection device that detects the vibration of the control object;

an input-side bandpass filter, which has a passband that is narrower than a frequency range from a Nyquist frequency of the digital controller to a sampling frequency, and that contains no frequencies that are an integer multiple of the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller, and which allows the vibration that falls within the passband from the vibration detected by the vibration state detection device to pass;

an A/D conversion device that converts the analog signal that has passed through input-side bandpass filter into a digital signal;

a D/A conversion device that converts a feedback control signal, determined by the digital controller on the basis of the digital signal converted by the A/D conversion device, from a digital signal into an analog signal; and

an actuator that applies vibration to the control object on the basis of the analog signal converted by the D/A conversion device.

2. The vibration reducing device according to claim 1, wherein the control object is a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, and wherein the frequencies of the vibration peaks of the fuel injector fall within the passband of the input-side bandpass filter.

3. The vibration reducing device according to claim 1, wherein the vibration state detection device detects one or more of the acceleration, velocity, displacement and sound pressure of the vibration of the control object.

4. The vibration reducing device according to claim 1, wherein the actuator is arranged between a mounting surface for the control object and the control object, and stretches in an axial direction of the control object corresponding to an applied voltage.

5. The vibration reducing device according to claim 3, wherein the actuator controls one or more of the acceleration, velocity, displacement and sound pressure of the vibration of the control object.

6. The vibration reducing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output-side bandpass filter that allows signals in the passband having frequencies above the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller, from the analog signals converted by the D/A conversion means, to pass; and

the actuator applies vibration to the control object on the basis of the analog signal that has passed through the output-side bandpass filter.

7. The vibration reducing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a low frequency bandwidth control part, which contains an input-side low-pass filter that allows vibration having frequencies below the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller from the vibration detected by the vibration state detection device to pass, converts the analog signal that has passed through the input-side low-pass filter into a digital signal, converts a feedback control signal determined on the basis of the digital signal from a digital signal into an analog signal, and on the basis of the analog signal, applies vibration to the control object by the actuator.

8. The vibration reducing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second input-side bandpass filter, having a passband that is narrower than the frequency range from the Nyquist frequency to the sampling frequency and contains no frequencies that are an integer multiple of the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller, wherein the passband of the second input-side bandpass filter overlaps the passband of the input-side bandpass filter,

wherein the analog signal that has passed the second input-side bandpass filter is converted into a digital signal; and

wherein the feedback control signal determined on the basis of the digital signal is converted from a digital signal into an analog signal, and on the basis of the analog signal, vibration is applied by the actuator to the control object.

9. The vibration reducing device according to claim 8, wherein the control object is a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, and the passband of the second input-side bandpass filter contains the vibration peaks of the fuel injector.

10. A method of reducing the vibration of a control object by a digital controller, the method comprising:

detecting the vibration of the control object with a vibration state detection device;

passing the vibration through an input-side bandpass filter, which has a passband that is narrower than a frequency range from a Nyquist frequency of the digital controller to a sampling frequency, and that contains no frequencies that are an integer multiple of the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller;

converting the analog signal that has passed through input-side bandpass filter into a digital signal;

converting a feedback control signal, determined by the digital controller on the basis of the digital signal, from a digital signal into an analog signal; and

applying vibration to the control object on the basis of the analog signal.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the control object is a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, and wherein the frequencies of the vibration peaks of the fuel injector fall within the passband of the input-side bandpass filter.

12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

detecting one or more of the acceleration, velocity, displacement and sound pressure of the vibration of the control object.

13. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

arranging the actuator between a mounting surface for the control object and the control object; and

stretching the actuator in an axial direction of the control object with an applied voltage.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

controlling one or more of the acceleration, velocity, displacement and sound pressure of the vibration of the control object with the actuator.

15. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

passing the analog signal through an output-side bandpass filter that allows signals in the passband having frequencies above the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller; and

applying the vibration to the control object on the basis of the analog signal that has passed through the output-side bandpass filter.

16. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

passing the vibration detected by the vibration state detection device through a low frequency bandwidth control part, which contains an input-side low-pass filter that allows vibration having frequencies below the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller to pass;

converting the analog signal that has passed through the input-side low-pass filter into a digital signal;

converting a feedback control signal determined on the basis of the digital signal from a digital signal into an analog signal; and

applying vibration to the control object by the actuator on the basis of the analog signal.

17. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

passing the vibration detected by the vibration state detection device through a second input-side bandpass filter, having a passband that is narrower than the frequency range from the Nyquist frequency to the sampling frequency and contains no frequencies that are an integer multiple of the Nyquist frequency of the digital controller, wherein the passband of the second input-side bandpass filter overlaps the passband of the input-side bandpass filter,

converting the analog signal that has passed the second input-side bandpass filter into a digital signal; and

converting the feedback control signal determined on the basis of the digital signal from a digital signal into an analog signal; and

applying vibration to the control object by the actuator on the basis of the analog signal.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the control object is a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, and the passband of the second input-side bandpass filter contains the vibration peaks of the fuel injector.