Vibration control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9657476-B2
Application number	US-201314762448-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 8, 2013
Priority date	Feb 22, 2013
Publication date	May 23, 2017
Grant date	May 23, 2017

Abstract

A vibration control device that can achieve the best vibration control effect within an allowable stroke range of a movable mass includes a controller that calculates at least one of a displacement deviation between a target displacement of a movable mass and a displacement of the movable mass detected by a mass displacement sensor and a velocity deviation between a target velocity of the movable mass and a velocity of the movable mass detected by a mass velocity sensor, and generates a control command for making a motor drive the movable mass on the basis of at least one of the displacement deviation and the velocity deviation. The target displacement and the target velocity are set in a manner that the amplitude of the movable mass becomes constant and that phases thereof are delayed 90 degrees with respect to the vibration of a building.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vibration control device for damping a vibration of a structure to be vibration-controlled by driving a movable mass disposed on the structure via an actuator on the basis of the vibration of the structure, comprising:
first detection means for detecting at least one of a displacement of the structure, a velocity of the structure, and an acceleration of the structure;
second detection means for detecting at least one of a displacement of the movable mass and a velocity of the movable mass; and
a controller that calculates at least one of a displacement deviation between a target displacement of the movable mass and the displacement of the movable mass detected by the second detection means and a velocity deviation between a target velocity of the movable mass and the velocity of the movable mass detected by the second detection means, and generates a control command for making the actuator drive the movable mass on the basis of at least one of the displacement deviation and the velocity deviation, wherein
the target displacement and the target velocity are set in a manner that an amplitude of the movable mass is constant and that phases thereof are adapted such that the target displacement and the target velocity work to damp the vibration of the structure.

2. The vibration control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the target displacement and the target velocity are set on the basis of a result obtained by multiplying a damping term α, obtained by dividing a mass acceleration amplitude target value A ref for driving the movable mass at a constant amplitude within an allowable stroke range by an amplitude A b of a velocity waveform of the structure, by a building velocity v 1 of the structure detected by the first detection means.

3. The vibration control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the controller sets the target displacement and the target velocity such that phases of the target displacement and the target velocity are delayed 90 degrees with respect to the vibration of the structure.

4. The vibration control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the target displacement and the target velocity are set on the basis of a result obtained by multiplying a damping term α, obtained by dividing a mass velocity amplitude target value A ref for driving the movable mass at a constant amplitude within an allowable stroke range by an amplitude A b of a displacement waveform of the structure, by a building displacement x 1 of the structure detected by the first detection means.

5. The vibration control device according to claim 4 , wherein
the controller sets the target displacement and the target velocity such that phases of the target displacement and the target velocity are delayed 90 degrees with respect to the vibration of the structure.

6. The vibration control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the target displacement and the target velocity are set on the basis of a result obtained by multiplying a damping term α, obtained by dividing a mass displacement target value A ref for driving the movable mass at a constant amplitude within an allowable stroke range by an amplitude A b of a velocity waveform of the structure, by a building velocity v 1 of the structure detected by the first detection means.

7. The vibration control device according to claim 6 , wherein
the controller sets the target displacement and the target velocity such that phases of the target displacement and the target velocity are delayed 90 degrees with respect to the vibration of the structure.

8. The vibration control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the target displacement and the target velocity are set on the basis of a result obtained by multiplying a damping term α, obtained by dividing a mass velocity target value A ref for driving the movable mass at a constant amplitude within an allowable stroke range by an amplitude A b of an acceleration waveform of the structure, by an acceleration a 1 of the structure detected by the first detection means.

9. The vibration control device according to claim 8 , wherein
the controller sets the target displacement and the target velocity such that phases of the target displacement and the target velocity are delayed 90 degrees with respect to the vibration of the structure.

10. The vibration control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller sets the target displacement and the target velocity such that phases of the target displacement and the target velocity are delayed 90 degrees with respect to the vibration of the structure.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Mechatronics Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Yamashina Yusuke
• Monzen Tadaaki
• Kubo Atsushi

Classifications

• E04H9/0215 Primary

  involving active or passive dynamic mass damping systems · CPC title

• E04H9/0235

  Anti-seismic devices with hydraulic or pneumatic damping · CPC title

• F16F7/1005 Primary

  characterised by active control of the mass · CPC title

• E04H9/02

  withstanding earthquake or sinking of ground (foundations E02D27/34) · CPC title

• G05B19/404

  characterised by control arrangements for compensation, e.g. for backlash, overshoot, tool offset, tool wear, temperature, machine construction errors, load, inertia (G05B19/19, G05B19/41 take precedence) · CPC title