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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Seth D Goodman, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Digisonix, Inc., Middleton, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
381 71 ;
Abstract
An active acoustic attenuation system and method which operates in a waveguide (i.e. duct or beam) to attenuate acoustic waves having energy in the plane wave node and in higher order nodes. The invention does this by sensing the acoustic wave at linearly independent locations across a waveguide, decoupling the signals to generate an independent signal for each node being attenuated, processing the signal for each node independently of one another, and combining the processed signals for each node to drive a set of actuators at linearly independent locations across a waveguide. The invention is useful for both sound control and vibration control.