Vibration suppression device that has variable inertia mass using CVT

In this paper author proposed a unique vibration suppression device that has variable inertia mass using continuously variable transmission (CVT) in order to obtain vibration isolation when a harmonic frequency was coincided with an anti-resonance frequency of 1DOF system. The device complies a ball screw mechanism, a flywheel, servo motors and CVT. The CVT is composed of toroidal wheels and power transmission wheels. The device has a small inertia force when an attitude angle of the power transmission is low by the servo motor as depending on a contact radius between two half toroidal wheels, on the other hand the large inertia force under high angle, so variable inertia force which acts as series inertia mass can be controlled continuously. The trial device was manufactured and the resisting force characteristics were measured. Theory of the variable inertia force was introduced, and compared with the experimental results. In order to confirm vibration control, an optimized inertia mass which always adjusts to anti-resonance frequency was determined in case of 1DOF system with the device, frequency response tests were carried out by using a shaking table, and experimental results were compared with calculated ones. Finally, the theory of resisting force and effects of vibration suppression were confirmed.