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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2007
Robert J. Thibodeau, Gloucester, MA (US);
Christopher Williams, Manchester, MA (US);
Daniel Irvin, Prides Crossing, MA (US);
Robert J. Thibodeau, Gloucester, MA (US);
Christopher Williams, Manchester, MA (US);
Daniel Irvin, Prides Crossing, MA (US);
Maglev Technologies, LLC, Gloucester, MA (US);
Abstract
A rotational apparatus with one or more passive magnetic bearing(s) is described. The rotational apparatus includes a rotor with a tapered magnetic ring and a stator with a tapered array of shorted conducting circuits. A repulsive force between the tapered magnetic ring and the tapered array of shorted conducting circuits acts a passive magnetic bearing that centers the rotor radially in a stator cavity and that repels the rotor axially away from an end of the stator cavity.