A vibration-canceling mechanism includes a vibration transfer member of a plane
shape inserted between a vibration-origination system having at least one resonance
frequency and an object to which a vibration is applied from the vibration-origination
system. The vibration transfer member has a resonance frequency equal to or near
the at least one resonance frequency of the vibration-origination system. A center
of one end section of the vibration transfer member is coupled by a single arm
section to a center of the other end section of the vibration transfer member.
The one end section of the vibration transfer member is fixed to the vibration-origination
system and the other end section of the vibration transfer member is fixed to the
object so that an apparent vibration of the object is substantially canceled by
a resonance of the vibration transfer member.