A structural damper (2) having an acoustic black hole (5), at least one sensor (7), a damper structure (4), an actuator (8) configured to apply an actuating force to the damper structure (4) and a controller (H) configured to control the actuator in dependence on a signal from the at least one sensor so as to provide structural damping of a primary structure (3).

An engine mount control apparatus that is an active noise vibration control apparatus according to the present disclosure is characterized by being provided with a housing that has an outer core, an inner core that is disposed inside the outer core, and an electromagnetic coil that is positioned between the outer core and the inner core and by a portion between the outer core and the inner core being filled with a magneto-rheological elastomer containing magnetic particles. The present disclosure enables the maintenance of good static load support performance.

A microphone system may include a measuring device that includes a plurality of sound elements and a semiconductor chip connected to the sound elements and receives a vibration signal and a noise signal from the outside to cancel the vibration signal and changes a phase of the noise signal to output a reverse phase noise signal; and a driver that is connected to the semiconductor chip and is included in a front glass of a vehicle and vibrates in response to the reverse phase noise signal to cancel a noise signal inputted from the outside.

A noise dampening arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a mass coupled to a structural component of the motor vehicle. A sensor detects vibration of the structural component of the motor vehicle, and transmits a vibration signal indicative of the detected vibration. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the sensor, receives the vibration signal, and emits a vibration compensation signal dependent upon the vibration signal. An actuator is communicatively coupled to the electronic processor, receives the vibration compensation signal, and exerts a force on the mass dependent upon the vibration compensation signal such that the vibration of the structural component of the motor vehicle is reduced.

Systems and methods for reducing noise or vibration generated by an internal combustion engine are described. An engine controller is arranged to operate the working chambers of the engine in a cylinder output level modulation manner A noise/vibration reduction unit actively control of a device that is not a part of the powertrain. The device is controlled in a feed forward manner to alter an NVH characteristic of the vehicle in a desired manner based at least in part on a characteristic of the cylinder output level modulation operation of the engine.

Disclosed herein is an damping structure including a vibration energy damping member absorbing, from a vibration energy path member, at least part of noise vibration energy transmitted through the vibration energy path member, wherein a length of the vibration energy damping member is equal to or more than a half of a wavelength of the vibration of the vibration energy path member, and at least one attachment part attaching the vibration energy damping member to the vibration energy path member is disposed in a position corresponding to an antinode of the vibration of the vibration energy path member.

An apparatus for natural ventilation of a room, with a room delimited by walls, at least one door or one window installed in one of the room walls, a ventilation passage which is fitted to the door or the window and which communicates between the outside of the room and the inside of said room in such a way as to allow natural ventilation between the outside and inside of said room, the passage having a first end opening into the room and a second end opening to the outside of said room, and a noise absorber capable of attenuating sound waves propagating in the ventilation passage, the attenuation being realized by the generation of a counter-noise which is superimposed on said sound waves or by absorbing all or part of said sound waves.

An apparatus for natural ventilation of a room, including a room, at least one door or one window that has an opening frame produced by profiles supporting at least one glass panel, which opening frame is mounted so as to move in a fixed stationary frame formed by profiles surrounding said opening frame, a ventilation passage which communicates between the outside of the room and the inside of the room in such a way as to allow natural ventilation between the outside and inside of said room, and a noise absorber capable of attenuating sound waves propagating in the ventilation passage.

An apparatus for natural ventilation of a room, with a room delimited by walls. At least one door or one window includes a fixed stationary frame surrounding a movable opening frame, a ventilation passage provided on the door or the window and which communicates between the outside of the room and the inside of the room in such a way as to allow natural ventilation between the outside and inside of said room, and a noise absorber capable of attenuating sound waves propagating in the ventilation passage, the attenuation being realized by the generation of a counter-noise which is superimposed on the sound waves or by absorbing all or part of said sound waves.

An electric axle assembly for a motor vehicle includes an electric machine suitable for operating as a motor, an axle for transmitting a power delivered by the electric machine to wheels of the motor vehicle, a transducer configured to detect an error variable representative of one or more parameters identifying a first vibration caused by an operation as a motor of the electric machine controlled by a control input, and a control unit configured to acquire the error variable detected by the transducer, determine one or more variable parameters of an adaptive model to compute a correction input to be superposed to the control input to update the control input, determine the correction input using the adaptive model defined with the determined variable parameters, and control the electric machine with the updated control input by superposing the correction input to the control input.