Patent ID: 8892338

Claim:
A damping apparatus for an automobile comprising: an excitation section that vibrates an auxiliary mass; a state information acquisition section that acquires operating state information indicating an operating state of an automobile; a mapping control section that reads out a mapping excitation force command value according to the operating state information acquired by the state information acquisition section from a damping information table where the operating state information and the mapping excitation force command value are associated with each other; a vibration detection section that detects a vibration state value indicating a vibration state of a damping target at a measuring point; an adaptive control section that finds an adaptive excitation force command value by using an adaptive filter according to the vibration state detected by the vibration detection section; a control switching section configured such that: when the vibration state value exceeds a first predetermined value, the control switching section switches control of the excitation section to the adaptive control section so that vibration of the excitation section is based on the adaptive excitation force command value; and when the vibration state value is less than a second predetermined value, the control switching section switches control of the excitation section to the mapping control section so that vibration of the excitation section is based on the mapping excitation force command value; and an updating section configured to update the damping information table by replacing the mapping excitation force command value associated with the operating state information with the adaptive excitation force command value, such that the adaptive excitation force command value becomes a new mapping excitation force command value associated with the operating state information in the damping information table, wherein the damping information table is updated when the control returns to the mapping control section.