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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2002
Takeshi Abe, Garden City, MI (US);
Takeshi Abe, Garden City, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An assemblywhich allows a vehicular damper to be virtually created and evaluated. Particularly, the assemblyincludes a torque producer, a frequency filter generator, and analyzersand. The torque produceselectively produces a torque signal which is combined with a selected frequency filter provided by the generator, thereby producing a dampened signal which is communicated to a transmission assembly. The analyzer detects noise and vibration and allows a designer to evaluate the chosen frequency filter. Other filters may be used and a filter is selected based upon the noise and vibration measurements made by the analyzers, and. An actual damper is then constructed having a frequency characteristic which is substantially similar to the frequency characteristic of the chosen frequency filter.