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US 9,878,636 B2Granted
Levitation and distribution system and method
AssigneeQwtip LLC
InventorsWhitaker Ben Irvin, Sr., George Allan Metzenthin
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Abstract
A system and method in at least one embodiment provides magnetic levitation to a vehicle above and/or partially about a rail or track using a flux field generator having a plurality of members having mated waveform patterns. In a further embodiment, the magnetic levitation also uses a distribution system. In a further embodiment, the plurality of members forms a disk-pack turbine. In a further embodiment, the flux field generator is not vehicle based.
Claims18
A levitation system comprising:
- at least one flux field generator having
- a disk-pack turbine having at least one waveform member having waveforms formed on at least one surface, and
- a drive system engaging said disk-pack turbine;
- and
- at least one rail or track including magnetic material and/or electromagnets.
2 more elements
A method for levitating a vehicle comprising:
- rotating a disk-pack turbine having a plurality of waveform members that together include at least two opposing surfaces with waveforms around an axial center of said waveform members;
- and
- directing the magnetic field generated by rotation of the disk-pack turbine towards at least one electromagnet to provide repulsion between the disk-pack turbine and the at least one electromagnet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.