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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2013
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
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);
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US);
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.