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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010

Filed:

Jan. 11, 2006
Applicants:

Robert Schmid, Neunkirchen am Brand, DE;

Benno Weis, Hemhofen, DE;

Inventors:

Robert Schmid, Neunkirchen am Brand, DE;

Benno Weis, Hemhofen, DE;

Assignee:

Siemens AG, Munich, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 7/14 (2006.01); B60L 13/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A distance sensor configuration for a magnet of the levitation magnet of a magnetic levitation transport system equipped with a number of distance sensors. Each distance sensor has a distance measuring coil acted upon by an operating frequency and can be placed in an installation space on the magnet. In order to obtain reliable distance measurement values by using a distance sensor configuration of the aforementioned type, the distance measuring coil of each distance sensor is connected to a programmable module for generating an operating frequency. The distance sensor contains a location information querying device for querying an installation space-specific location information providing device in the installation space. The location information querying device is connected on the input side to the programmable module.


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