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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171859 | Magnetic levitation vehicle with at least one magnetic system A magnetic levitation vehicle has at least one magnetic arrangement (27). The magnetic arrangement (27) contains a plurality of magnetic poles (27a . . . 27n) which are arranged one behind the other in the direction of trave... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171858 | Transit system vehicle guideway constructed from modular elements and using magnetic levitation for suspension and propulsion vehicles The networked guideway transit system uses materials and methods of constructing guideway elements. The materials and methods are designed to reduce the static weight, cost and physical size of the guideway structure. Installation cost is also significantly reduced ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8074579 | Magnetically levitated transport system A magnetically levitated transport system moves a suspended cargo such as passengers and freight. A linear motor uses a track stator about which a “rotor” moves linearly. Stator and rotor circuits interact electromagnetically to maintain a gap between the moving... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074578 | Linear synchronous motor power control system and methods A system is disclosed that controls the power flow to Linear Synchronous Motor (LSM) stators for a vehicle transport system. This invention allows multiple vehicles to operate in close proximity in a guideway without requiring an excessive number of separate control... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7954434 | Apparatus for transferring substrates An apparatus for transferring substrates includes a carrier to which substrates are loaded, an upper transfer unit transferring the carrier horizontally by applying thrust to the carrier, a lower transfer unit maintaining the lower body of the carrier at the horizon... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7866266 | Magnetic levitation train provided with a compressed air supply unit A magnetic levitation railways has at least one vehicle, a compressed air supply unit provided in the vehicle and at least one consumer connection line, the compressed air supply unit has at least two compressed air lines laid in the vehicle and connected to at leas... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7836829 | Rail-bound vehicle for an amusement park ride The invention relates to a rail-bound vehicle for an amusement park ride. The vehicle has an upper part 10 with vehicle seats 12, as well as a carriage 20 whose running wheels 22 and lateral wheels 23 run on rail-tubes, as do its l... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7814840 | Magnet arrangement for a magnetic levitation vehicle A magnet arrangement for a magnetic levitation vehicle is described. The magnet arrangement comprises a plurality of magnet poles (11) being combined to form groups (11a to 11f), wherein according to the invention each group contai... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7730840 | Girder of a guideway for a track-bound vehicle A track carrier for a railborne vehicle, especially a magnetic suspended railway comprises a concreted plate (2) projecting laterally from the carrier (1). Stators (15, 16) are arranged at the two lateral ends of the plate (2) on the bott... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7699006 | Carrier and a magnetic levitation railway provided with said deck The invention relates to a carrier (11) and a magnetic levitation railway provided with said carrier. The inventive carrier (11) comprises a sliding surface (14) and the sliding skates of a vehicle travelling along said magnetic levitation railw... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7699007 | Guideway carrier and magnetic levitation railway manufactured therewith A guideway carrier (11) and a magnetic levitation railway being produced therewith are described. The guideway carrier (11) has a gliding surface (14) for the gliding skids of the magnetic levitation railway. The gliding surface (14) is p... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7677180 | Apparatus and method for steering transport vehicles in semiconductor processing A steering apparatus and method is implemented that allows high speed, clean, particle-free transport of a semiconductor wafer or lithographic reticle on a transport vehicle at various positions on the vehicle track, especially when entering and exiting turns. Three... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7624686 | Permanent magnetic levitation bogie apparatus A magnetic levitation bogie apparatus includes an upper inner circular ring permanent magnet mounted onto a bottom surface of a chassis; a bogie located below the chassis; a lower inner circular ring permanent magnet mounted onto an upper surface of the bogie, and a... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7587982 | Magnetic levitation guideway-train system A magnetic levitation guideway-train system is provided. The levitation power chambers located at a lower portion of the train are fitted in the grooved guideway, and the side permanent magnets of the levitation power chambers and the ferromagnetic balance levitatio... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7562628 | Guideway transportation system with integrated magnetic levitation suspension, stabilization and propulsion functions A networked guideway transit system uses permanent magnet repulsion with induction-based repulsion within the networked guideway transport system, which can levitate passively with motion. Magnetic levitation technology is used to replace wheels as the primary means... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7555988 | Guideway for a maglev vehicle In order to provide an easy-to-assemble support structure of a guideway of a maglev vehicle, pre-fabricated stator lamination stacks (4) and guideway beam (1) are joined together to the support structure. ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7527001 | Bogie apparatus A bogie apparatus includes a chassis, rotation bogie parts respectively disposed at both ends of the chassis, and a composite motion bogie part located at a middle portion of the chassis. Each of said rotation bogie parts includes a circular upper inner ring permane... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7484462 | Permanent magnetic levitation apparatus A permanent magnetic levitation apparatus comprises a permanent magnetic track unit and permanent magnetic levitation wing unit provided on a magnetic levitation vehicle and levitated above the track unit, in which the wing unit includes a ferromagnetic wing trough ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484463 | Permanent magnetic levitation apparatus A permanent magnetic levitation apparatus comprises a permanent magnetic track unit and permanent magnetic levitation wing unit provided on a magnetic levitation vehicle and levitated above the track unit, in which the wing unit includes a ferromagnetic wing trough ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7478598 | Oscillation damping means for magnetically levitated systems The present invention presents a novel system and method of damping rolling, pitching, or yawing motions, or longitudinal oscillations superposed on their normal forward or backward velocity of a moving levitated system. ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7404361 | Vehicle adapted to move along a rail The vehicle adapted to move along a rail comprises a body and a levitation system, the body resting in operation on the levitation system in a main bearing direction via suspension means between the body and the levitation system to allow relative movement between t... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401557 | Support for functional planes The invention relates to a support (1) for functional planes used for a magnetic levitation track. The stator packets (11) comprised in the track are suspended in a particularly compact and production-friendly manner on a stator beam (9), the st... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7388338 | Device for braking a magnetic levitation railway A device is for braking a magnetic levitation railway, wherein the stator winding of a linear motor is short-circuited as a brake winding in a last section before an end of the route. There is a provision for two stator windings which extend alternately on the stato... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7380508 | Suspending-rail permanent magnetic levitation train system A compensation type suspending-rail permanent magnetic levitation system includes a track unit and a vehicle unit, the track unit includes a suspending arch crosstie, and balancing guide levitation rails are symmetrically disposed on two inner sides of the suspendin... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7368838 | High efficiency voice coil motor Methods and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of a voice coil motor (VCM) are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a cylindrical and radially symmetric VCM includes a plurality of sets of magnets, and a single coil. The plurality of set... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357085 | Machine guideway employing electromagnetic suspension A machine guideway for used in machine processing includes a base (10, 40), a slide block (20, 50) slideably received in a sliding groove of the base, and an electromagnetic suspension system. The electromagnetic suspension system provides a repulsion ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7314008 | Suspending-rail and dual-attraction balancing compensation type permanent magnetic levitation train and railway system A suspending-rail and dual-attraction balancing compensation type permanent magnetic levitation train and railway system, comprising a track unit and magnetic levitation vehicles, the track unit including goalposts, inverted T-shaped gate beams, flanged beams made w... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7271509 | Polygonal structure of a linear motor with ring winding A linear motor includes a primary having lamination stacks, which are arranged to realize a polygonal configuration of the primary, and winding coils having windings wrapped about the lamination stacks in parallel relationship to an outer periphery of the primary. E... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7255046 | Method and apparatus for use in guiding magnetically levitated vehicles The present embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for use in controlling and directing magnetically levitated vehicles. In some embodiments, a method propels or passes a vehicle along a guideway, magnetically levitates the vehicle as it travels along the guide... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7243604 | Hidden-rail and dual-attraction balancing compensation type permanent magnetic levitation train and railway system A hidden-rail dual-attraction balancing compensation type permanent magnetic levitation train and railway system are provided. The hidden rails are provided inside two underground tubes, and each tube is communicated with the ground via a rail through silt. A magnet... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7234667 | Modular aerospace plane This invention relates to the design of a Modular Aerospace Plane (MAP) comprising a forward fuselage section, a main wing section, a tail section and wing attachments. Various sections can be integrated to offer a variety of aircraft characteristics, performance an... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232092 | Flying vehicle-launching apparatus and method A flying vehicle-launching apparatus and method for launching a winged flying vehicle by accelerating the vehicle in a predetermined direction includes a flying vehicle-supporting platform, a guide device, and a driving device. The flying vehicle-supporting platform... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224252 | Adaptive magnetic levitation apparatus and method A magnetic levitation system, includes a base module having a plurality of coils spaced in a matrix configuration. The system also includes a platform module having a plurality of focusing magnets and a plurality of lifting magnets. Activation of the plurality of co... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7204192 | Apparatus, systems and methods for levitating and moving objects Apparatus, systems and methods for levitating and moving objects such as vehicles, doors and windows are shown and described herein. The embodiments incorporate a track with lower rails having lower permanent magnets and the object with upper rails having upper perm... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197987 | Magnet assembly for the suspension and guidance of suspended vehicles and transport systems A magnet assembly for the suspension and guidance of suspended vehicles and transport systems creates an intrinsically stable, contactless magnetic suspension and guidance system composed of an assembly of magnetic elements and a superconductor assembly for suspende... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191710 | Electrical power storage and delivery using magnetic levitation technology One or more magnetic levitation vehicles are provided to transport a storage mass over a magnetic levitation guideway extending between an elevated upper end and a lower end at a lower elevation, and including a plurality of magnetic propulsion windings. Movement of... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185590 | Planar maglev positioning system A six-degree-of-freedom magnetic levitation positioning system includes a levitated platform, six impelling coils disposed adjacent to the platform, and six permanent magnets attached to the platform such that each of the permanent magnets is adjacent to and magneti... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182023 | Track structure of the rapid track transit A guideway structure for the high-speed track-bound transportation is composed of the lower-layer main load-bearing girders and the guideway-surface structure elements. The structural elements are connected by the steel elements at the functional zones and the reinf... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173387 | Arrangement having at least one long-stator linear motor, for operating magnetically levitated vehicles The invention relates to an arrangement for operating a magnetically levitated vehicle by means of an arrangement having at least one long-stator linear motor. The linear motors are sub-divided, longitudinally of a track, into individual motor regions (A) in each of... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7152866 | Steerable and liftable independent suspension system A liftable independent suspension system which may also be steerable. In a described embodiment, a liftable suspension system for use on a vehicle includes wheel spindles positioned to extend outwardly at each respective lateral side of the vehicle. The spindles are... | 12/26/2006 |
