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US 2017/0141672 A1Published application
Magnet to magnet couplings and drives
AssigneeMagnaDrive Corporation
InventorsRian Rustvold, Jeongkwan Lee, Geoffrey Reynolds Harmon
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Abstract
A balanced magnetic rotor assembly is disclosed. The balanced rotor assembly including a driver rotor assembly having a first driver rotor assembly and a second driver rotor assembly arranged about a rotational axis and being spaced apart from each other a distance along the rotational axis, and a load rotor being arranged about the rotational axis and arranged between the first driver rotor and the second driver rotor.
Claims2
A balanced magnetic rotor assembly comprising:
- a driver rotor assembly having a first driver rotor and a second driver rotor arranged about a rotational axis and being spaced apart from each other a distance along the rotational axis:
- the first driver rotor including a first array of a first plurality of magnets coupled to a first plate, the first array of the first plurality of magnets arranged in a first plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the driver rotor assembly, a first of the first plurality of magnets having a north pole face in a first direction and being arranged between a second and a third of the first plurality of magnets, the second and the third of the first plurality of magnets having a south pole face also in the first direction;
- the second driver rotor including a second array of a second plurality of magnets coupled to a second plate, the second array of the second plurality of magnets arranged in a second plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the driver rotor assembly and parallel to the first plane, a first of the second plurality of magnets having a south pole face in a second direction and being arranged between a second and a third of the second plurality of magnets, the second and the third of the second plurality of magnets having a north pole face also in the second direction;
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- a load rotor being arranged about the rotational axis and arranged between the first driver rotor and the second driver rotor, the load rotor including a body having a third array of a third plurality of magnets therein, the third array of the third plurality of magnets arranged in a third plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the driver rotor assembly and parallel to the first and second planes, a first of the third plurality of magnets having a north pole face in the first direction and a south pole face in the second direction and being arranged between a second and a third of the third plurality of magnets, the second and the third of the third plurality of magnets each having a south pole face in the first direction and a north pole face in the second direction.
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A balanced magnetic rotor assembly comprising:
- a driver rotor having a first body and a first array of a first plurality of magnets and a first ring magnet therein, the first array of the first plurality of magnets arranged in a first plane that is perpendicular to a rotational axis of the driver rotor, a first of the first plurality of magnets having a north pole face in a first direction and being arranged between a second and a third of the first plurality of magnets, the second and the third of the first plurality of magnets having a south pole face also in the first direction, the first ring magnet having a ring shape, the ring shape having a center that is on the rotational axis, the first ring magnet having a first magnetic pole having a first magnetic polarity in the first direction;
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- a load rotor assembly having a second body and a second array of a second plurality of magnets and a second ring magnet therein, the second array of the second plurality of magnets arranged in a second plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the driver rotor, a first of the second plurality of magnets having a south pole face in a second direction, opposite the first direction and being arranged between a second and a third of the second plurality of magnets, the second and the third of the second plurality of magnets having a north pole face also in the second direction, the second ring magnet having a ring shape, the ring shape having a center that is on the rotational axis;
- the second ring magnet having a first magnetic pole having a the first magnetic polarity in the second direction.
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