Shinko Electric Company, Ltd.

Isuzu Motors Limited

Masaaki Narihisa

Hiroshi Nakagawa

Takayoshi Fujii

Hideaki Moriya

Takashi Fukunaga

Katsuyoshi Nakano

Yushi Sato

Takashi Onoue

Yasushi Muragishi

Minoru Maeda

Tsuyoshi Tanaka

Katsuyuki Tamai

Toshiki Maruyama

Yaushi Muragishi

Takahisa Fujiwara

A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit.

Damping apparatus for reducing vibration of automobile body

Damping apparatus for reducing vibrations

A linear pulse motor including: a stator; a movable member, the stator and the movable member each having a face to oppose to each other; a supporting mechanism for supporting the movable member, the supporting mechanism having a plurality of rolling members rotatably mounted thereon, said rolling members being placed between the stator and the movable member to be in rolling contact with the stator and the movable member so that a gap is formed between said opposing faces of the stator and the movable member to thereby enable the movable member to move parallel to the opposing face of the stator along a line of travel thereof, the supporting mechanism being movable on the stator along said line of travel; and a positive motion transferring mechanism for positively transferring movement of the movable member to the supporting mechanism so that the supporting mechanism is in displacement a half of the movable member, whereby the movable member is moved by generating a magnetic flux between said gap when the linear pulse motor is energized.

Linear pulse motor

An electromagnetic device includes an electromagnet having one electrical coil and an annular member of high permeability having a pair of radially spaced first and second circumferential magnetic resistance portions. The first and second armatures are disposed in opposed relation to the first and second magnetic resistance portions, respectively. At least one of the first and second magnetic resistance portions is interrupted by circumferentially spaced magnetic bridge portions having such a size as to allow a predetermined amount of magnetic flux to pass therethrough to attract the one of the first and second armatures, disposed in opposed relation to the other of the first and second magnetic resistance portions, into contact with the annular member when excitation current of lower magnitude is applied to the coil. When excitation current of higher magnitude is applied to the coil, the magnetic flux passes through the first and second armatures, thereby attracting them into contact with the annular member.

Electromagnetic device

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Ise, Japan

Masaaki Narihisa