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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Orlo James Fiske, Oxnard, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61B 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B61B 1/300 ;
Abstract
A ground-based capsule pipeline with greatly improved speed, energy efficiency, and cost for transportation of freight and/or people. Passive magnetic levitation is used to suspend inert, rugged capsules within an air-evacuated pipeline, where they are propelled by a linear motor. Permanent magnet pole arrays incorporated in the capsules interact with inductively-enhanced conductive loops on the interior of the pipeline to produce a low “take-off” speed, high lift, and a high lift-drag ratio.