US 12,203,526 B2
Negative stiffness generating mechanism and quasi-zero stiffness vibration isolator
Jun Luo, Chongqing (CN); Xu Chen, Chongqing (CN); Huayan Pu, Chongqing (CN); Jinglei Zhao, Chongqing (CN); and Yan Jing, Chongqing (CN)
Assigned to Chongqing University, Chongqing (CN)
Filed by Chongqing University, Chongqing (CN)
Filed on Mar. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/655,294.
Claims priority of application No. 202111048472.0 (CN), filed on Sep. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0074188 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. F16F 6/00 (2006.01); F16F 15/18 (2006.01)
CPC F16F 15/18 (2013.01) [F16F 6/005 (2013.01); F16F 2222/06 (2013.01); F16F 2228/063 (2013.01); F16F 2230/0029 (2013.01); F16F 2232/02 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A negative stiffness generating mechanism, comprising a base, a housing, a negative stiffness unit and a negative stiffness adjusting device, wherein the housing is installed on the base, and axial relative positions of the housing and the base can be adjusted;
the negative stiffness unit comprises an inner-ring magnet group, an outer-ring magnet group and a supporting shaft, the supporting shaft axially slides on the base and passes through the housing, the inner-ring magnet group comprises a plurality of inner-ring magnets, the plurality of inner-ring magnets all fixedly sleeve the supporting shaft, opposite ends of every two adjacent inner-ring magnets are opposite in polarities, the outer-ring magnet group comprises a plurality of outer-ring magnets, the plurality of outer-ring magnets all sleeve a periphery of the inner-ring magnet group and are divided into an upper group of outer-ring magnets and a lower group of outer-ring magnets to be installed inside the housing, and opposite ends of every two adjacent outer-ring magnets are opposite in polarities;
the upper group of outer-ring magnets and the lower group of outer-ring magnets can synchronously move towards each other or back to back along a direction of the supporting shaft through the negative stiffness adjusting device; and
axial relative positions of a middle plane of the outer-ring magnet group and a middle plane of the inner-ring magnet group can be adjusted by adjusting the axial relative positions of the housing and the base.