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- From: zwork@starfighter.den.mmc.com (Michael Corvin)
- Subject: Re: Factory noise elimination2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.214806.9384@den.mmc.com>
- Sender: zwork@starfighter (Michael Corvin)
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- Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics Group
- References: <1992Nov19.170622.13991@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:48:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.170622.13991@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>, meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers) writes:
- |>
- |> The name of the company is Andrea Electronic Corp. Anyone
- |> have an opinion on their new claims.
- |>
- |> Steve
-
- I have heard nothing about them. However, I was wondering if
- they are using active noise cancelling technology (?). Some years
- ago I saw a report (from England, I believe) about a noise
- cancelling system used industrially on a gas turbine generator
- exhaust stack. A ring of drivers mounted around the stack were
- driven with the phase-reversed noise signal and achieved a significant
- reduction in the net noise strength. They took an impressive amount
- of wattage to run, but the power consumed was a small fraction of
- the generator output.
-
- A similar approach could be used in the vicinity of any noisy
- machinery. The acoustics would probably get difficult in diverse factory
- environments, however.
-
- Active noise reduction (ANR) is in use in a number of aviation
- headsets. The first commercial product was offered by Bose a
- few years ago and there are now at least three other makers
- offering them. The passive attenuation properties of the headsets
- reduce the higher frequency noise significantly (21dB is typical).
- The ANR is used to reduce the mid to lower frequency noise. Their
- effectiveness is highly praised by pilots (who can afford them...).
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- Michael Corvin zwork@starfighter.den.mmc.com
- GN&C research & development Martin Marietta Astronautics Group
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