OSCILLATING-RESONANT-MODULE CONTROLLER

摘要

The current document is directed to various types of oscillating resonant modules (“ORMs”), including linear-resonant vibration modules, that can be incorporated in a wide variety of appliances, devices, and systems to provide vibrational forces. The vibrational forces are produced by back-and-forth oscillation of a weight or member along a path, generally a segment of a space curve. A controller controls each of one or more ORMs to produce driving oscillations according to a control curve or control pattern for the ORM that specifies the frequency of the driving oscillations with respect to time. The driving oscillations, in turn, elicit a desired vibration response in the device, appliance, or system in which the one or more ORMs are included. The desired vibration response is achieved by selecting and scaling control patterns in view of known resonance frequencies of the device, appliance, or system.

主权项

1. A physical device that exhibits a vibration response when mechanical driven by one or more oscillating resonant modules included in the physical device, the physical device comprising:
the one or more oscillating resonant modules, each of which responds to control inputs to produce driving oscillations; a stored characterization of the natural vibration frequencies of the physical device; stored control information for the one or more oscillating resonant modules for each of one or more vibration types that is based on the stored characterization of the natural vibration frequencies of the physical device; and a controller that accesses the stored control information to control the one or more oscillating resonant modules to drive the physical device to exhibit a vibration response specified by one of the one or more vibration types.