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Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2013
Applicant:

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nicholas Boechler, Culpeper, VA (US);

Robert Peter Dillon, Costa Mesa, CA (US);

Chiara Daraio, Pasadena, CA (US);

Gregory L. Davis, Pasadena, CA (US);

Andrew A. Shapiro, Glendale, CA (US);

John Paul C. Borgonia, Santa Fe Springs, CA (US);

Daniel Louis Kahn, Altadena, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 9/30 (2006.01); F16F 7/01 (2006.01); F16F 13/00 (2006.01); F16F 1/374 (2006.01); F16F 1/36 (2006.01); F16F 1/44 (2006.01); F16F 3/087 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 7/015 (2013.01); F16F 1/374 (2013.01); F16F 9/303 (2013.01); F16F 13/00 (2013.01); F16F 1/3615 (2013.01); F16F 1/445 (2013.01); F16F 3/0876 (2013.01); F16F 2234/08 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49 (2015.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method for vibration suppression using a granular particle chain. The granular particle chain is statically compressed and the end particles of the chain are attached to a payload and vibration source. The properties of the granular particles along with the amount of static compression are chosen to provide desired filtering of vibrations.


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