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Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2018
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Yohei Hatakeyama, Yokohama, JP;

Tetsuro Itakura, Nerima, JP;

Assignee:

KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Minato-ku, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 19/5733 (2012.01); B81B 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 19/5733 (2013.01); B81B 3/0051 (2013.01); B81B 2201/0242 (2013.01); B81B 2207/03 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a vibration apparatus includes a coupled vibration mechanism which includes a plurality of mass parts and connects the mass parts, a catch and release mechanism which catches a vibrating mass parts to stop vibration and releases a caught mass parts to start vibration and a control circuitry configured to determine whether catching the mass parts by the catch and release mechanism is successful or failed and control the catch and release mechanism for raising possibility for catching the mass parts by the catch and release mechanism, if the catching the mass parts is determined as failed.


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