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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:
Sep. 09, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2010
Applicants:

Jake J. Abbott, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Bradley Kratochvil, Zurich, CH;

Michael P. Kummer, Zurich, CH;

Bradley Nelson, Zumikon, CH;

Inventors:

Jake J. Abbott, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Bradley Kratochvil, Zurich, CH;

Michael P. Kummer, Zurich, CH;

Bradley Nelson, Zumikon, CH;

Assignee:

ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 47/00 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01); A61F 9/007 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 19/22 (2013.01); A61B 2019/2253 (2013.01); A61F 9/007 (2013.01); A61B 2019/5238 (2013.01); A61B 2019/5265 (2013.01); A61B 2019/5227 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00876 (2013.01);
Abstract

A magnetic manipulation and navigation system for moving a magnetic element through a body comprising at least six electromagnets fixed in relation to said body and a control unit supplying the current for the electromagnets. The electromagnets have soft magnetic cores and the current supplied by the control unit to each of the electromagnets is adapted to operate the electromagnetic coils of each of the electromagnets in their core's linear regions being delimited by the value of the flux density of each electromagnet being in an interval between the negative and positive saturation value of each electromagnet, the lower representation showing the deviation due to the use of soft magnetic cores in all electromagnets.


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