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US 4,340,260 AGranted
Magnetic suspension bearing
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHelmut Forster, Paul Hini, Gerd Stransky
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AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHelmut Forster, Paul Hini, Gerd Stransky
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A magnetic suspension bearing for a rotating body having at least two magnet systems of coaxial permanent magnets arranged sequentially along the axis of rotation of the rotating body. Each magnet system is provided with two permanent magnets disposed on the rotating body and a stator, respectively. Each such permanent magnet is magnetized in a direction perpendicular to a major external surface, the adjacent surfaces of the magnets within a magnet system being of like polarity so as to repel one another. Each of the magnets is constructed so as to form a truncated cone, the axis of which coincides with an axis of rotation of the rotating body. In one embodiment, the apex of the cones are directed towards one another. The apex angle of the cones is advantageously preselected to provide desired axial and orthogonal components of force.
A magnetic suspension bearing for a rotating body having an axis of rotation, the bearing having at least first and second magnet systems which are arranged sequentially along the axis of rotation, each magnet system having two annular, coaxially arranged, permanent magnets which are magnetically poled so as to repel one another, one permanent magnet of each magnet system being affixed to the rotating body, and the other to a stator, the magnetic suspension bearing being CHARACTERIZED IN THAT the permanent magnets are each provided with a pole surface which forms a truncated cone having an axis which coincides with the axis of rotation of the rotating body.
The magnetic suspension bearing of claim 4 wherein said spacer is affixed to one of the pole surfaces of the permanent magnets of said selected one of the first and second magnet systems, and the other pole surface of said selected magnet system is provided with a covering of a non-magnetic material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.