Lord Corporation

Michael Jarzomski

Askari Badre-Alam

Luca Di Deco

Richard Wilder

Aaron McCullough

A steer-by-wire device for controlling a vehicle includes a housing; an input shaft that is rotatable relative to the housing and is configured to receive a rotary input from an operator of the vehicle at a first end of the input shaft, the first end being located external to the housing; a rotor attached to the input shaft at a second, opposite, end of the input shaft, the second end being located internal to the housing; a sensor for detecting an angular position, an angular velocity, and/or an angular acceleration of the input shaft relative to the housing; and a coil for generating a magnetic field to generate a rotary force or torque in the rotor to resist rotation of the rotor. The rotor is attached to the input shaft to allow a relative movement between at least a portion of the rotor and the input shaft.

Compliant shaft-rotor coupling for improved end stop exit

A magnetically-responsive device () having a magnetic seal () to retain magnetically responsive material within a defined space () is provided. The magnetically-responsive device () has a shaft (), a rotor (), a magnetic field generator (), a magnetically-responsive medium and a magnetic seal (). The seal () is preferably a non-contact seal () that does not deteriorate over time and generates little to no resistance.

Magnetic seal for magnetically-responsive devices, systems, and methods

Seat-damping devices, systems, and methods for damping vibrations are disclosed. A fail-safe permanent magnet is used with an electromagnet to create damping of induced vibrations in a seat-damping device using magnetorheological, electrorheological, magnetically responsive powders and other magnetically responsive materials.

Seat-damping devices, systems, and methods

Torque generating devices, systems, and/or related methods are disclosed. In one aspect, a torque generating device () may include a housing (), at least one top and one bottom pole (), at least one side pole (), at least two rotors () for rotating within the housing, a shaft () supported by bearings (), at least a first stator () disposed between portions of the at least two rotors (), magnetically responsive (MR) material disposed within the housing () and at least partially surrounding the first stator () and the at least two rotors (), and a coil () for generating a magnetic field, wherein an amount of torque generated by the torque generating device () increases in proportion to an amount of electrical current supplied to the coil (). In another aspect, a method of generating torque may include providing a torque generating device () and rotating the at least two rotors ().

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Apex, NC, United States of America

Michael Jarzomski