Bearing-like device using magnetic force to actively aid or enhance turning or spinning movement
OwnerCharles Kuipers, Samuel Stoltzfusinventors
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Abstract
A bearing-like device using magnetic force to both passively facilitate and actively aid or enhance a turning, spinning, or other movement of an attached shaft or other member. In a preferred embodiment, the device comprises a conical male component spirally wrapped in magnetic material outwardly presenting a magnetic pole of a particular orientation and received within a correspondingly shaped female component including magnetic material outwardly presenting a magnetic pole having the same particular orientation, such that the male component is both magnetically repelled from the female component and magnetically induced to turn or spin relative to the female component.
Claims18
A device using magnetic force to actively aid a rotational movement of a shaft member attached to the device, the device comprising:
- a male component having a first magnetic component, wherein the first magnetic component is arranged in a tapering spiral and presents a first magnetic pole of a particular orientation;
- and
- a female component having a second magnetic component, wherein the second magnetic component is arranged substantially circumferentially around at least a portion of the male component and presents a second magnetic pole of the same particular orientation, such that the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component magnetically interact so as to both repel and turn, thereby actively aiding the rotational movement of the attached shaft member.
A device using magnetic force to actively aid a rotational movement of a shaft member attached to the device, the device comprising:
- a male component including—
- a conical body, and
- a first magnetic component wrapped spirally about the conical body and presenting a first magnetic pole of a particular orientation;
- and
- a female component including a second magnetic component arranged substantially circumferentially around at least a portion of the male component and presenting a second magnetic pole of the same particular orientation, such that the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component magnetically interact so as to both repel and turn, thereby actively aiding the rotational movement of the attached shaft member.
A device using magnetic force to actively aid a rotational movement of a shaft member attached to the device, the device comprising:
- a male component including—
- a conical body, and
- a first magnetic component wrapped spirally about the conical body and presenting a first magnetic pole of a particular orientation;
- and
- a female component including—
- a conical recess operable to receive at least a portion of the male component, and
- a second magnetic component arranged about the conical recess and including—
- a lower circumferential row of magnetic material,
- a central circumferential row of magnetic material, and
- an upper circumferential row of magnetic material,
- wherein the second magnetic component is arranged substantially circumferentially around at least a portion of the male component and the second magnetic component presents a second magnetic pole of the same particular orientation, such that the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component magnetically interact so as to both repel and turn, thereby actively aiding the rotational movement of the attached shaft member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.