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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2017
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Atsuo Orita, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 15/00 (2006.01); F16F 1/36 (2006.01); F16F 1/40 (2006.01); H02N 1/04 (2006.01); B81B 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 15/002 (2013.01); B81B 3/007 (2013.01); F16F 1/3615 (2013.01); F16F 1/40 (2013.01); H02N 1/04 (2013.01); F16F 2224/025 (2013.01); F16F 2228/066 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control device of a variable stiffness mechanism controls a total stiffness by variably outputting a voltage from a DC power sourceto an 'm' number of stiffness control elastomersamong a plurality of dielectric elastomersof a variable stiffness mechanism. Further, in a state in which a square-wave signal is being output from a square-wave power sourceto an 'n' number of electrostatic capacitance estimation elastomers, a detection value of energizing current is acquired and the acquired detection value is used to estimate an electrostatic capacitance.