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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6073739 | Rail segments A rail is arranged along a predetermined route of a movable body. The movable body is moved by electric power fed through an electric cable wired along the rail. The rail is constituted by a plurality of rail segments. Each segment includes a body having ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5941353 | Non-contact type electric power supplying system for vehicle A feeder is disposed along a guide rail that guides an electrically powered vehicle. The electrically powered vehicle has an electric power receiving unit that accommodates the feeder. Electric power is supplied from the feeder to the electrically powered... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5938151 | Communication systems employing power cables for conveyor carriages A system for communication between a fixed station and a carriage, which travels along a rail. The system employs a cable used to supply the carriage with electric power and carries out communication by superimposing communication signals on the electric ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5937977 | Non-contact power supply for conveyor carriages A non-contact power supply system for supplying electric current from a power supply unit to a carriage that travels along a rail. A pair of cables, which are used to convey electric current that drives the carriage, extend along the rail. Each cable has ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5927657 | Antenna mounting structure for movable member conveying system A carriage conveying system having a conveyance control device, which outputs communication signals for supplying a carriage with electric power by a feeder cable arranged along a guide rail to move the carriage along the guide rail and for controlling op... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5898579 | Non-contact power distribution system An inductively coupled power distribution system for moving vehicles, in which resonating primary circuits to distribute power for resonating secondary circuits to collect and use in an optimized manner. In order to have all circuits resonating at substan... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5893437 | Non-contact electric power supplying system for a vehicle A feeder is disposed along a guide rail that guides an electrically powered vehicle. The electrically powered vehicle has an electric power receiving unit that surrounds the feeder on a non-contact basis. Electric power is supplied from the feeder to the ... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5887430 | Hydraulic source and hydraulic machine A hydraulic source(20) comprises a hydraulic pump(62) driven by a motor(61), which operates based on the power and control data from a non-contact power feeding apparatus(30); a hydraulic tank(63); a solenoid valve(64); a relief valve(65); a hydraulic pre... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5855261 | Non-contact electric power supplying system for vehicle A system for supplying electric power to an electrically powered vehicle includes a feeder disposed along a structural member as a guide rail that guides the vehicle. The vehicle has an electric power receiving unit that receives electric power from the f... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5839554 | Power collector for inductive power transfer This inductive power transfer system provides a capacitor (15) having a pickup coil (14) in series between the windings of the pickup coil and the electrical load (16, 17, 18). A power-factor compensating capacitor (19) may be used at the feed to a loop o... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5831841 | Contactless power distribution system A primary inductive path to which a high-frequency current is supplied from a power supply is laid along a guide rail for carrying car bodies and secondary electric power receiving circuit for receiving electric power from the primary inductive path in a ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5709291 | Device for contactless power supply to moving body A device for contactlessly supplying power to a moving body (2) such as a pallet being transported in a predetermined transport passage and carrying a device to be supplied with power while supplying power to the last-mentioned device. An induction wire (... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5669470 | Roadway-powered electric vehicle system A roadway-powered electric vehicle system includes: (1) an all-electric vehicle; and (2) a roadway network over which the vehicle travels. The all-electric vehicle has one or more onboard energy storage elements or devices that can be rapidly charged or e... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5619078 | Primary inductive pathway A primary inductive track or path 450 for a resonant inductive power distribution system is made up from a number of modules 453, each supplied as a pre-built and substantially pre-tuned segment of the track. These modules have more than one capacitor 456... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5595271 | Electric vehicle pick-up position control In an electrically powered vehicle having an inductive pick-up configured to couple electrical power from a series of aligned and spaced-apart charging pads associated with a road surface, methods and apparatus are disclosed for controlling the lateral po... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5573090 | Raodway-powered electric vehicle system having onboard power metering and communication channel features A roadway-powered electric vehicle (RPEV) system includes: (1) an all-electric vehicle; and (2) a roadway network over which the vehicle travels. The all-electric vehicle has one or more onboard energy storage elements or devices that can be rapidly charg... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5551350 | Transporting system driven by linear motor having inductive power supply An automated warehouse system a plurality of car passages, and a plurality of transport units, each disposed in a car passage containing parallel rails with vertical webbings, each of the transport units have a car, wheels for running on the rails, a driv... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5542356 | Track-guided transport vehicle A track-guided transport vehicle system for transporting high loads along a travel path contains for the drive a synchronous linear drive with a long stator along the travel path and an exciter winding on the vehicle. The long stator generates a travellin... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5528113 | Inductive power pick-up coils A loosely coupled inductive power transfer system suitable for transferring power to a mobile conveyer platform or a vehicle has pick-up coils wound on flux concentrator(s). One or more large flat horizontal ferrite cores 607, 608 are used to concentrate ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5524723 | Arrangement for inductive guidance of non-track-bond vehicles An inductive guidance arrangement for non-track-bound vehicles on a vehicle supporting surface. Guidance conductors laid alongside the supporting surface carry an alternating current which generates an alternating magnetic field. The actual transverse pos... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5467718 | Magnetic levitation transport system with non-contact inductive power supply and battery charging A magnetic levitation transport system includes magnetic levitation vehicles each driven by a linear motor to run along a track. Induction lines extend through predetermined blocks of the running track to transmit a high frequency sine-wave current. Each ... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5469036 | Apparatus for feeding electricity to motor driving means of a movable body Motors 14 and 17 are mounted on a moving member 9 disposed on an upper surface of a track plate 8. The motors 14 and 17 are adapted to move and drive the moving member 9 along the track plate surface. Primary coils 33 and 34 are disposed below the track p... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5431264 | Electric vehicle having body-wound inductive coil and EMR shielding An electric vehicle having a non-metallic body portion and equipped with an inductive charging coil for charging the vehicle's battery while the electric vehicle is moving includes a magnetic flux barrier attached to the non-metallic body portion and enco... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5317976 | Vehicle and high-speed transport system having rotating alternating polarity magnet member for levitating, propelling, and guiding the vehicle A vehicle has a rotary magnetic field member which is rotatably supported at a position near the surface of a roadway along which the vehicle runs and rotatingly driven by a driving device. The rotary magnetic field member has magnetic poles of different ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5311973 | Inductive charging of a moving electric vehicle's battery A battery of an electric vehicle is inductively charged while the electrical vehicle is moving, using a magnetic field along different portions of an extended linear distance and an inductive coil mounted on an electric vehicle, by having the electric veh... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5207304 | Inductive energization system and method for vehicles An inductive energization system for moving vehicles includes wayside inductors under the roadway and pickup inductor circuits in electrically powered vehicles. A pickup power controller has a switching circuit, including a zero-crossing trigger circuit, ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5174215 | Power collection system for transportation systems A power collection system for a transportation system with a vehicle and a guideway includes a stator winding disposed in the guideway for generating a traveling magnetic field which propagates in the guideway and a rotating magnetic rotor disposed in the... | 12/29/1992 |
| 4836344 | Roadway power and control system for inductively coupled transportation system An electrical modular roadway system adapted for transmitting power to and controlling inductively coupled vehicles traveling thereon. The system comprises a plurality of elongated, electrically connected inductor modules arranged in an aligned end to end... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4800328 | Inductive power coupling with constant voltage output A constant voltage inductive power coupling for magnetically transferring electrical power from a power source through an air gap to a load comprising a first electromagnetic inductor connected to a power source to generate a shaped alternating magnetic f... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4789049 | Signal transmitting equipment for elevator This invention relates to an elevator signal transmitting equipment characterized in that a shielding body of a magnetic shielding material envelops a transmitting line laid along a shaft through which a cage travels and a portion of a coupling device ext... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4741418 | Electromagnetic energization system with non-coiled, single wire conductor An electromagnetic energization system is disclosed wherein a stray alternating magnetic field is generated by conducting a current through a discrete (i.e., indefinite) length of wire or rod instead of a fine wire winding. A permanent magnet rotor is dis... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4459438 | Apparatus comprising a track and articles for movement therealong A combination of a track formed from sections which are joined one to another with articles such as toy vehicles for movement therealong is provided in which the power for movement of the articles is transmitted onto a magnet in the article from an electr... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4331959 | Method and apparatus for detecting a defective object on a lane or track A defective object such as a vehicle normally movable on a lane, assembly ne, or track is detected by a receiver on another object travelling behind the defective object, to avoid rear end collisions with the defective vehicle. For this purpose the vehicl... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4331225 | Power control system for electrically driven vehicle An electrically driven vehicle having suitable batteries to drive the vehicle on conventional roads and a pickup receiver thereon for receiving power for a drive motor from a conductor embedded in a prepared roadway for driving the vehicle and for chargin... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4203010 | Communication system Data and speech are transmitted along an elongate member from a transmitter to a receiver. Toroids are used to effect a low frequency coupling between the transceivers and the elongate member. The toroids are segmented and their windings are such as to fo... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4092554 | Linear electric generating system Magnets are mounted on the undercarriage of a railroad vehicle and produce a magnetic field. Coils are mounted between the rails of a railroad track and extend in the same direction as the rails. The coils are positioned in the magnetic field generated by... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4007817 | Roadway for supplying power to vehicles and method of using the same A roadway having at least one lane for traffic moving in one direction and at least one lane for traffic moving in the opposite direction is provided with power conductors for inductively coupling power to vehicles moving along the roadway. The conductors... | 02/15/1977 |
