3325 results about "Magnetic levitation" patented technology

The invention provides a simple method, devices and several machines for simultaneously stirring and aerating thousands of vessels or wells of microplates in a robust manner and with economy. This method uses the simple principle of magnetic stirrers being levitated vertically when passed laterally or vertically through a strong horizontal dipole magnetic field. The dipole magnetic fields may be produced by using permanent magnets, electromagnets or a modulating/reversing electro-magnetic field. Each vessel contains a magnetic ball, disc, bar, dowel or other shape (stirrers) which in their magnetic attraction to the dipole magnetic field will cause the stirrers to levitate up in the vessel as the stirrer's magnetic poles attempt to align with the center of the dipole's magnetic field. The stirrers will fall to the bottom of the vessel by gravity or by changing the relative position of the levitating magnetic field to pull them down, or by passing the vessel laterally over another magnetic field. The up and down movement of the stirrers provides a vigorous mixing of the contents of many vessels at same time. If the level of the vessel's meniscus is situated so the stirrers pass through it on their way up and down, the air/liquid interface is significantly increased thereby significantly increasing aeration of the liquid.

An apparatus and method for a centrifugal fluid pump for pumping sensitive biological fluids, which includes (i) an integral impeller and rotor which is entirely supported by an integral combination of permanent magnets and electromagnetic bearings and rotated by an integral motor, (ii) a pump housing and arcuate passages for fluid flow and containment, (iii) a brushless driving motor embedded and integral with the pump housing, (iv) a power supply, and (v) specific electronic sensing of impeller position, velocity or acceleration using a self-sensing method and physiological control algorithm for motor speed and pump performance based upon input from the electromagnetic bearing currents and motor back emf-all fitly joined together to provide efficient, durable and low maintenance pump operation. A specially designed impeller and pump housing provide the mechanism for transport and delivery of fluid through the pump to a pump output port with reduced fluid turbulence.

A method and apparatus for rapid thermal annealing comprising a plurality of lamps affixed to a lid of the chamber that provide at least one wavelength of light, a laser source extending into the chamber, a substrate support positioned within a base of the chamber, an edge ring affixed to the substrate support, and a gas distribution assembly in communication with the lid and the base of the chamber. A method and apparatus for rapid thermal annealing comprising a plurality of lamps comprising regional control of the lamps and a cooling gas distribution system affixed to a lid of the chamber, a heated substrate support with magnetic levitation extending through a base of the chamber, an edge ring affixed to the substrate support, and a gas distribution assembly in communication with the lid and the base of the chamber.

A magnetic levitation sliding structure is provided. The sliding structure includes a first slider member including a guide portion with a first magnet, a second slider member including a receiving portion with a channel-shaped second magnet, the receiving portion being configured to receive the guide portion so as to slide on the first slider member. The first and second magnets are configured so that a repelling force can act there between for facilitating the sliding operation. In some embodiments the sliding structure includes at least one attraction member configured at an initial and/or final position of one of the first and second slider members. A portable electronic device including the magnetic levitation sliding structure is also provided.

A low friction and stable sliding structure for an electronic device. The sliding structure includes a first sliding member comprising at least one guide portion, a second sliding member including a receiving portion receiving the guide portion so as to slide along the first sliding member, a first magnet portion disposed in the guide portion, such that magnetic poles of the first magnet portion are arranged across a sliding direction, and a second magnet portion disposed in the receiving portion so that a repulsive force can act between the first magnet portion and the second magnet portion.

A magnetic levitation motor including a stator having magnetic bearing units and a motor unit, and a rotor provided to the stator. And the occurrence of an eddy current at a magnetic bearing is suppressed and the rotation loss of the rotor can be reduced, and also to provide a pump using such the magnetic levitation motor.

The invention belongs to the field of rail traffic and relates to a U-shaped rail double-safety running and levitation driving energy-saving mechanism which is suitable for low-medium-speed maglev train double-safety running and levitation driving energy saving. The mechanism is composed of a U-shaped rail 1, a self-locking hydraulic traveling wheel mechanism 2, a connecting frame 3, a train body 4, an air spring 5, a bogie arm 6, a spindle 7, an aluminum sensing plate 8 and levitation magnets 9. By designing a U-shaped rail structure, production efficiency of the U-shaped rail is improved, roller consumption in hot rolling production is reduced, and production cost is lowered. By combining the U-shaped rail structure with the self-locking hydraulic traveling wheel mechanism, a maglev train is enabled to have a magnetic levitation and rubber wheel double-safety running mechanism, levitation-starting energy consumption of the maglev train is reduced remarkably, traction levitation energy consumption is reduced by 10-15%, and energy-saving effect is obvious. Running safety and accident emergency response capability are improved remarkably, and when a full-levitation system is in a failure, driven by a linear motor, a rubber wheel supporting train still can safely get to a target station.

This invention discloses a haptic interface system that uses Lorentz forces to provide magnetic levitation for a handle which can be manipulated by a person, typically a computer user.

The invention provides a low-speed high-precision control system of a magnetically levitated flywheel motor based on n Hall transducers, which is used in the high-precision stance control executing mechanism of the new-generation high-stability satellite, namely, the drive control of the magnetically levitated reaction flywheel motor. The invention mainly comprises a controller taking the field programmable gate array (FPGA) as a core, a Hall transducer, a three-phase bridge power amplifier, a drive circuit of the power amplifier, a three-phase permanent magnet brushless DC motor, a voltage reducing chopper, an energy dissipation unit, a detecting unit of a winding current, a detecting unit of chopping voltage, and a DC constant power supply. By arranging n Hall transducers evenly on one side of the motor stator and detecting the Hall signals produced by the Hall transducers, precise rotation speed feedback can be obtained after the Hall signals are compensated, and the low-speed high-precision control of the magnetically levitated reaction flywheel used permanent magnet brushless DC motor can be implemented by using the controller taking the FPGA as the core.

The present invention relates to a magnetic suspension reaction flywheel open-loop high-accuracy unbalanced vibration control system. It includes the following several portions: displacement sensor, displacement signal interface circuit, rotating speed detection device, magnetic bearing controller, magnetic bearing power amplification drive circuit and flywheel position identification device. The magnetic bearing controller includes axial bearing controller and radial bearing controller, the radial bearing controller is formed from two portions of stabilization controller and unbalanced vibration controller, in which the unbalanced vibration controller can be used for making compensation for displacement feedback of stabilization controller.

A High Temperature Superconductor Maglev (HTSM) for Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) with a magnetic levitation structure for ETT capsule vehicles traveling in an evacuated tube. At least one ETT capsule travels within an evacuated tube, an upper and a lower cryostat respectively mount at the top and bottom of said ETT capsule along the length thereof, at least a plurality of superconductor levitation force elements divided between said upper and lower cryostats. The levitation force being spread over the length of capsule, however substantially concentrated in a compact cross-sectional area. At least a pair of permanent magnetic elements mounted at the top and bottom of the evacuated tube to levitate the capsule. At least a pair of capsule based switchable diverge force elements cooperate with at least a pair of tube based diverge force elements to steer the capsule while in an interchange.

The invention provides a mask aligner mask platform adopting the magnetic suspension technology. The mask aligner mask platform mainly comprises a precision slideway, a base, a suspension and the like, wherein the inside of the suspension is provided with an electromagnet which combines with a vortex displacement sensor to realize that the suspension is suspended above the slideway stably; the stator of a linear electric motor is fixed on the base, the rotor of the linear electric motor is fixed on the suspension; and the slideway surface is provided with a linear scale which combines with a linear scale reading-head arranged on the suspension to realize the precise and linear positioning motion of the suspension. The magnetic suspension mask aligner mask platform provided by the invention utilizes electromagnetic attraction and electromagnetic linear drive to ensure that the mask aligner mask platform can perform precise and fast reciprocating linear positioning motion, realize the functions of ultra-clean, high-speed, long-distance and precise positioning motion and the like which can not be realized by using the traditional scheme using a rotary servo motor for drive, a precision ball lead screw for transmission and a slideguide for support, and have higher suspension stiffness and better load-bearing characteristic than the gas phase suspension mask aligner mask platform.

A magnetic levitation flywheel high-precision active vibration control system comprises a displacement sensor, a current sensor, a magnetic bearing controller and a PWM modulation and a power amplifier, wherein, the magnetic bearing controller comprises stabilization of the controller, eccentric estimation, magnetic force compensation and action of a switch. The magnetic levitation flywheel high-precision active vibration control system introduces the eccentric estimation and the magnetic force compensation on the basis of the stable control and utilizes the unbalance vibration parameters of a flywheel to carry out the compensation of the unbalance amount and the displacement negative stiffness of the flywheel within the entire rotation speed range, thus realizing the control of the unbalance vibration of the flywheel within the entire rotation speed range and allowing the flywheel to be operated around a principal axis of inertia with high precision during the whole process of speed increasing and speed reducing.

A substrate holding and rotating device includes: a turntable rotatable; a rotative drive unit which rotates the turntable; a holding member which is provided on the turntable and horizontally holds a substrate in upwardly spaced relation to the turntable; a vertically movable protection disk disposed between the turntable and a substrate holding position; and a magnetic levitation mechanism including a first magnet attached to the protection disk, an annular second magnet which generates a repulsive force with respect to the first magnet, a support member which non-rotatably supports the second magnet, and a relative movement mechanism which moves the support member and the turntable relative to each other.

Provided is a bearingless motor capable of stably performing magnetic levitation and rotation even when a thrust disk is not provided and gap length is wide.

A unit 101 of a first bearingless motor is formed of a stator 41 and a core 61, while a unit 103 of a second bearingless motor is formed of a stator 43 and a core 63. A thrust magnetic bearing unit 102 formed of a core 62 and a stator 42 while having the functions of a thrust magnetic bearing is newly arranged between the unit 101 and the unit 103. A stator-side annular thrust permanent magnet 73 and a rotor-side annular thrust permanent magnet 81 are arranged between the unit 101 and the unit 103, while a stator-side annular thrust permanent magnet 75 and a rotor-side annular thrust permanent magnet 83 are arranged between the unit 102 and the unit 103.

The present invention relates to a novel magnetic suspension and propulsion technologies, which are named as Magnetostatic Suspension (MSS) and Magnetostatic Propulsion (MSP) respectively because of their magnetostatic nature of forces generated. A spring-like magnetic force is produced through interactions between magnets and ferrous materials such as steel. To apply the technologies, four key embodiments of the invention have been invented and described: a MSS and MSP maglev vehicle system in which a vehicle body is lifted up and stabilized by magnetostatic forces above a steel rail both horizontally and vertically; a MSP long-stator linear motor system in which a rotor can be driven up along a magnet-free steel rail or long steel stator; a MSS Permanent Magnet Magnetic Bearing System (PMMB) system in which a steel shaft is levitated standstill by a fully permanent magnets assembly for frictionless rotating; a MSS maglev wind turbine system in which a magnet-free turbine body can hover standstill over a permanent magnet base assembly spinning frictionlessly with low inertia and low cut-in wind speed threshold.

This structure and method for minimizing EME (Electromagnetic Emission) and the crosstalk between the signal lines which are used to write and read the tracks of magnetic disk drives. These signal lines are located on magnetic trace suspension assemblies which move above the magnetic disk drives. The structure and method utilize well-placed single and multiple crossovers on either or both of the lines used to read and write the tracks on magnetic disks. In addition, the structure and method utilize the parasitic capacitances between the write and read lines to couple beneficial voltages which cancel the unwanted crosstalk noise.

The proposed Amlev Self-Regulating System of High Speed Ground Transportation Based on Permanent Magnets and Steel Cores is designated for magnetic levitation, stabilization, and propulsion of vehicles moving without friction. The proposed system comprises subsystems: a Magneto-Dynamic Levitation and Stabilizing Self-Regulating System (MDLSS), and a Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor (PMLSM). Both systems comprise permanent magnets and steel cores. MDLSS provides levitation and stabilization of vehicle while PMLSM produces propulsion force providing the assigned alternative velocity of the vehicle along the stator winding powered by the current of constant frequency 50 Hz. Each of the subsystems comprises two main parts: a fixed part—guideway/stator including extended steel cores for MDLSS and windings for PMLSM, and moving part—permanent magnets of the levitator for MDLSS and the rotor for PMLSM—both affixed to the moving vehicle. Each of the subsystems is self-regulating and operates without fast response control system. A new model is proposed for measuring destabilizing forces impacting a flying vehicle at its shifts from an assigned trajectory that allows to eliminate the stage of full-scale modeling when designing Amlev system.

The invention relates to a silicon slice platform multi-platform exchange system adopting a magnetic levitation planar motor, which is mainly used in a lithography machine system. The silicon slice platform multi-platform exchange system comprises a base platform, a silicon slice platform group and a silicon slice platform driving device, wherein, the silicon slice platform group comprises a plurality of silicon slice platforms which have the same structure and are respectively worked in pretreatment working positions or exposure working positions, the silicon slice platform driving device adopts the magnetic levitation planar motor, a stator of the magnetic levitation planar motor is arranged at the top of the base platform, and rotors of the planar motor are arranged at the bottom of the silicon slice platform. The invention discloses a specific example of one silicon slice platform multi-platform exchange system adopting the moving coil type permanent magnet magnetic levitation planar motor. In the example, the stator of the planar motor adopts a novel planar permanent magnet array, wherein, the magnetizing directions of adjacent permanent magnets mutually form an angle of 45 degrees. The silicon slice platform multi-platform exchange system realizes multi-platform exchange and progressive scanning motion on a plane and improves the productivity, the overlay accuracy and the resolution of the lithography machine by using the planar motor to directly drive the silicon slice platforms.

A high-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation motor is formed by a superconducting motor rotor (1), a motor stator (2), superconducting bearing rotors (3), permanent magnetic bearing stators (4), a rotary dewar (5), an electromagnetic screen (6), torque tubes (7), mechanical protection bearings (8), a main shaft (9), a low-temperature liquid (gas) inlet pipeline (10) and a low-temperature liquid (gas) outlet pipeline (11). The superconducting motor rotor (1) and the superconducting bearing rotors (3) are arranged in the rotary dewar (5) and are cooled by liquid nitrogen or liquid neon or liquid helium or cold helium, the motor stator (2) and the permanent magnetic bearing stators (4) are arranged outside the rotary dewar (5) and are coaxial with the rotary dewar (5), and the two mechanical protection bearings (8) are used in a left and right mode in the radial direction for protecting against the influence brought by the failure of superconducting bearings.

A module levitation control method for the frequently conducting electromagnetic-type low-speed magnetic levitation train features that a levitation control system has only one levitation controller consisting of signal processing unit, A/D converter, clock signal generator, master DSP unit, PWM wave generator and auxiliary DSP unit. Said method includes such steps as measuring the levitation states of ends A and B of a module by two levitation sensors, calculating their control values, and controlling the current values of electromagnets A and B and in turn their electromagnetic forces, so ensuring the gap between module and track to be constant.

The invention relates to a flywheel energy storage device, in particular to a flywheel battery with a rapid charging and discharging function. The flywheel battery comprises a flywheel device and a driving device which drives the flywheel to rotate. The flywheel device comprises a flywheel, a flywheel rotating shaft and magnetic suspension bearings at the two ends of the flywheel rotating shaft. The periphery of the flywheel device is provided with a vacuum enclosed hood which is in interference fit with the magnetic suspension bearings. The flywheel is made from a magnetic material or internal magnets are fixedly arranged on the flywheel. The driving device comprises a transmission shaft and a rotor. One end of the transmission shaft is fixedly connected with the rotor, and the other end of the transmission shaft is connected with a motor or an engine. The rotor is made from the magnetic material or external magnets are arranged on the rotor. A gap is reserved between the rotor of the driving device and the flywheel device. The axis of the rotor is parallel to or overlapped with that of the flywheel rotating shaft. The flywheel and the rotor drive each other through a magnetic force. By the flywheel battery, energy storage capacity can be improved and service life can be prolonged; and the flywheel battery is convenient to produce in batches, maintain and service.

An implantable medical device for intra lumenal support of a body lumen wherein at least a portion of the implantable medical device comprises at least one magnetic material.

The invention is an integrating double-framework magnetically suspended control moment gyroscope (MSCMG) magnetic bearing control system, comprising a control circuit, a collecting circuit and a communication interface; wherein, the control circuit comprises a FPGA module, a DSP module and the like; the collecting circuit consists of current, a displacement sensor interface circuit, a double-framework revolution/position interface circuit, an A/D module, and a D/A module; the communication interface comprises a USB interface, RS232 and an SPI interface; the control circuit in the system is used for receiving gyroscope rotor signal processed by the collecting circuit, controlling the stable suspension thereof, transmitting the controlled variable to an upper computer through the communication interface, and realizing on-line monitoring on the suspended gyroscope rotor, data collecting and on-line modification for the controlled variable under the control of the upper computer. The system provided in the invention has the advantages of effectively communicating an inner framework and an outer framework rotational signals under the control of high precision, realizing the integrating design of the control system and the measurement and control system, and satisfying the requirements of speed and precision for the data collecting and the on-line monitoring.

A suspension maglev rail transit system includes an orbital system, a suspension system, a control system and a car system, wherein the control system comprises a drive system, a guidance system and asuspension control system, wherein the track system is suspended in the air through upright posts, the car system is suspended vertically below the track system through the suspension system, and thedrive system and the guidance system cooperate to drive the car system to operate in the track system. The invention utilizes the levitation force with the permanent magnet repulsion force as the main force and the electromagnetic regulation as the auxiliary force to suspend the car on the air track, and realizes the stable operation through the non-contact traction of the linear motor. The invention has the advantages of low energy consumption, high safety, no land occupation, low cost, strong climbing ability, small turning radius and wide adaptability.

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 by the modular nature of the guideway components, which can be manufactured in a controlled factory environment using mass production methods. As a result, the supporting structure of the guideway can be quickly erected and the modular blocks inserted with simple equipment. In addition, complex alignment procedures are not required. In particular, the guideway component includes motor coils having the shapes and configurations that facilitate the easy insertion of the guideway component without the need for interleaving coils in adjacent guideway components and without creating dead spots in the magnetic fields between guideway components.

The invention discloses a rotor gravity unloading type magnetic bearing composite motor comprising an external stator, an armature winding, a permanent magnet, a rotor, a magnetic isolation aluminum ring, an internal stator and a suspension control winding. The armature winding is wound in external stator slots. The magnetic isolation aluminum ring is embedded in the rotor. A Halbach type permanent magnet array is surface-mounted on the surface of the rotor. The internal stator has seven internal stator poles including two opposite bias flux magnetic poles, four radial suspension control poles and one gravity direction rotor weight unloading pole. Radial magnetized permanent magnets are surface-mounted on the surface of the bias flux magnetic poles. The suspension control winding is wound on the four suspension control poles. Coupling between the suspension winding and the armature winding in the conventional magnetic suspension motor can be eliminated, and the influence of the rotor weight on suspension control in the conventional suspension motor can also be greatly solved so that the rotor is enabled to stably work at the central balance position without increasing suspension control current, and low power consumption and stable suspension of the magnetic bearing composite motor can be realized.

The invention provides a method for inhibiting the track coupled vibration of a suspension system of a magnetic suspension train; the method is as follows: bringing the characteristics of a magnetic track into the magnetic suspension train system to lead to a five-level system of the magnetic suspension train system; acquiring five independent state variables which represent the suspension train and track states; comprehensively controlling the magnetic suspension system according to the five state variables and adjusting the control variables of the system; controlling the suspension clearance of the magnetic suspension train in a certain range; inhibiting the coupled vibration of the track of the suspension system of the magnetic suspension train and realizing the stable suspension of the magnetic suspension train. The invention further provides a suspension control unit formed by a suspension magnet, a suspension sensor, a suspension controller, a differentiator and the like, and the suspension control unit is used as an execution element in the control. The method not only inhibits the coupled vibration of the track of the suspension system of the magnetic suspension train, but also effectively solves the problem of noise amplification in the ordinary differential method.

The invention provides a travel structure of a magnetic levitation type rail polling car, wherein the travel structure is fixedly arranged at the lower part of the bottom board of carriage of the rail polling car and comprises a plurality of floating frames which are sequentially arranged as well as a long stator linear motor traction device and an outer rotor motor driven supporting wheel device which are arranged on the floating frames; wherein the floating frames comprises a plurality of beam frames and corbel frames which are arranged at the two ends of the beam frame; the long stator linear motor traction device comprises a floating magnet module arranged on the corbel frame, a plurality of guiding magnet modules and a plurality of eddy braking magnet modules; the outer rotor motor driven supporting wheel device comprises a motor supporting wheel loading device which is arranged at the two ends of the beam frame and at the inner side of the corbel frame as well as an outer rotor motor supporting wheel arranged at the two ends of the bottom of the beam frame by the loading device. The invention can realize the compatible double traction pattern of long stator linear motor traction and outer rotor motor supporting wheel traction, so that the rail polling car can have the functions of high speed polling and low speed detection.

The disclosed control system includes flywheel body, power amplifier for magnetic bearing, controller for magnetic bearing and adaptive compensator. Through collecting signals including angular rate of frame, speed of rotor, and displacement of rotor, the adaptive compensator carries out adaptive compensation calculation. Sum of calculated compensation quantity and the output of controller for magnetic bearing is connected to the power amplifier for magnetic bearing in order to eliminate disturbing moment on rotor of magnetic suspension caused by moving frame. The invention lowers displacement of rotor caused by rotation of frame, raises response speed and precision of angular rate of frame, and improves response speed and precision of moment output of magnetic suspension control moment.