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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2023
General Vibration Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nikhil Bajaj, West Lafayette, IN (US);
George T.-C. Chiu, West Lafayette, IN (US);
John Houston, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rob Morris, San Diego, CA (US);
General Vibration Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The technology provides a multi-actuator haptic vibration device that has a mounting platform and a pair of linear resonant actuators (LRAs) attached to the mounting platform. Each LRA has an axis of vibration and a moveable mass constrained to move backwards and forwards therealong, with the axes of vibration being arranged in a same direction. A controller is configured to produce haptic feedback as a combined output waveform on the mounting platform, by obtaining an input waveform corresponding to a haptic effect and computing a control component waveform for each LRA via either (i) pre-determined performance-timing tables or (ii) pre-determined performance-timing functions. The controller estimates a position of each moveable mass, controls the position of each moveable mass, and controls each LRAs with its respective computed control component waveform.