US 11,852,762 B2
System and method to transfer inertial mass
Dennis Keith Reust, Stillwater, OK (US)
Filed by Dennis Keith Reust, Stillwater, OK (US)
Filed on May 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/735,425.
Application 17/735,425 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/213,973, filed on Mar. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,346,966.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/090,915, filed on Oct. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/042,847, filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0260738 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G01V 1/155 (2006.01); G01V 1/135 (2006.01); B06B 1/12 (2006.01); F16F 15/023 (2006.01)
CPC G01V 1/135 (2013.01) [B06B 1/12 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An improvement for a vibroseis source system, wherein the vibroseis source system has a base plate component, and a reaction mass component which is mechanically isolated from the base plate component via an actuating piston internal to the reaction mass component, the actuating piston being configured to drive vertical displacement of the reaction mass component during vibroseis source system operation when the base plate component is coupled against a surface of earth, the improvement comprising one or more dampers, each damper having at least a first end and a second end, a first end of each damper being directly mechanically connected to the reaction mass component and a second end of each damper being mechanically connected to a frame component of a vehicle on which the vibroseis source system is carried without isolators therebetween, thereby providing mechanically compliant coupling between the reaction mass component and the frame component of the vehicle, wherein the one or more dampers are separate and apart from the actuating piston, wherein the one or more dampers do not add energy to the vibroseis source system, and wherein the one or more dampers transfer inertial mass from the vehicle frame to the reaction mass component.