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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340941 ; 340905 ; 340933 ;
Abstract
A mobile unit support system comprises at least one magnetic member for forming a magnetic field in said vicinity of a movement path of a mobile unit which is made of a dielectromagnetic material; and at least one magnetic sensor which, when said mobile unit passes over, detects a change of said magnetic field and which transmits a result of said detection to an external, and said mobile unit comprises receiving means for receiving said transmitted signal, and a processing section which processes a signal from said receiving means.