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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1980
Glenn E Warnaka, Erie, PA (US);
Lynn A Poole, State College, PA (US);
Jiri Tichy, State College, PA (US);
Lord Corporation, Erie, PA (US);
Abstract
An active attenuator is provided for the attenuation of a relatively broad band of lower frequency vibration such as sound waves from a given source, by the introduction of cancelling vibration having the mirror image amplitude and phase characteritics of the source vibration. The active attenuator herein includes an input sensor for detecting the source vibration, a cancelling speaker for generating cancelling vibration, an error sensor for sensing the combination of source and cancelling vibration, and an electronic controller coupled to the input sensor, cancelling speaker and error sensor. The electronic controller includes an adaptive cancelling filter which employs a deterministic algorithm operable to accommodate the propagation delays of the vibration sensed by the input and error sensors, and produce an output to activate and control the cancelling speaker for the production of cancelling vibration.