Abstract:
The invention relates to devices that produce displacements and/or forces (defined as actuators), when a magnetic field source(s) is (are) placed in such a way that the resulting magnetic field is of suitable strength and orientation in relation to the actuating element made from a Magneto-Mechanical Adaptive (MMA) material, so as to produce the desired displacement of the MMA element; or to devices that dampen mechanical vibrations by absorbing the vibration energy into an MMA element and/or by converting the vibration energy into electric power in the device and/or senses displacement, velocity or acceleration. The electric energy can be dissipated to heat or led out from the device. In the latter case, the device works as a power generator. The principle of using the devices as sensors is also described. The MMA material here is defined as a material whose dimensions change when a magnetic field or stress is applied to it, based on twin boundary or austenite-martensite phase boundary motion or magnetostriction.
Abstract:
A personal audio device, such as a wireless telephone, includes noise canceling circuit that adaptively generates an anti-noise signal from a reference microphone signal and injects the anti-noise signal into the speaker or other transducer output to cause cancellation of ambient audio sounds. An error microphone is provided proximate the speaker to measure the output of the transducer in order to control the adaptation of the anti-noise signal and to estimate an electro-acoustical path from the noise canceling circuit through the transducer. The anti-noise signal is adaptively generated to minimize the ambient audio sounds at the error microphone. A processing circuit that performs the adaptive noise canceling (ANC) function also filters one or both of the reference and/or error microphone signals, to bias the adaptation of the adaptive filter in one or more frequency regions to alter a degree of the minimization of the ambient audio sounds at the error microphone.
Abstract:
A system for providing active noise control for turbulent airflow in a duct (18) utilizing flow straightening (20) upstream of bullet shaped microphones (12, 14) coupled to the noise control electronics (10) thereby improving noise coherence between the input (12) and error microphones (14) and achieving noise reduction.
Abstract:
An acoustic measurement system 300 for an industrial process asset 114 includes a process measurement device 102 providing a value representative of an acoustic signal near the industrial process asset 114 based in part on a signal from an acoustic sensor 104 positioned near the industrial process asset 114. A second acoustic sensor 316 provides an acoustic value and a noise reduction component 324 uses the acoustic value from the second acoustic sensor 316 to affect the value provided by the process measurement device 102 so that the value provided by the process measurement device 102 is more representative of an acoustic signal generated by the industrial process asset 114.
Abstract:
A personal audio device, such as a wireless telephone, includes noise canceling circuit that adaptively generates an anti-noise signal from a reference microphone signal and injects the anti-noise signal into the speaker or other transducer output to cause cancellation of ambient audio sounds. An error microphone is provided proximate the speaker to measure the output of the transducer in order to control the adaptation of the anti-noise signal and to estimate an electro-acoustical path from the noise canceling circuit through the transducer. The anti-noise signal is adaptively generated to minimize the ambient audio sounds at the error microphone. A processing circuit that performs the adaptive noise canceling (ANC) function also filters one or both of the reference and/or error microphone signals, to bias the adaptation of the adaptive filter in one or more frequency regions to alter a degree of the minimization of the ambient audio sounds at the error microphone.
Abstract:
An acoustic measurement system 300 for an industrial process asset 114 includes a process measurement device 102 providing a value representative of an acoustic signal near the industrial process asset 114 based in part on a signal from an acoustic sensor 104 positioned near the industrial process asset 114. A second acoustic sensor 316 provides an acoustic value and a noise reduction component 324 uses the acoustic value from the second acoustic sensor 316 to affect the value provided by the process measurement device 102 so that the value provided by the process measurement device 102 is more representative of an acoustic signal generated by the industrial process asset 114.
Abstract:
A method for the active control of sound radiated in a duct (1) comprising sensing sound from an array (4) of sensors located on the inside surface of a flow duct and controlling an array (3) of secondary sources (loudspeakers) so as to minimize sound radiated in the far field. This is done by controlling the sound sources so as to minimize a cost function. Depending on whether total sound power or sound power towards the sideline is to be reduced, different cost functions are used by the method.
Abstract:
An active duct silencer (120) that can be furnished complete or in a kit which utilizes feedback microphones (56, 57) and microprocessor (55) with a fast adapting algorithm to quiet noise in the duct (11).