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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2012
Magnemotion, Inc., Devens, MA (US);
Nathanael N. King, Ayer, MA (US);
Brian M. Perreault, Stow, MA (US);
Tracy M. Clark, Devens, MA (US);
Richard D. Thornton, Concord, MA (US);
Jason Young, Marlborough, MA (US);
Michael W. Bottasso, Maynard, MA (US);
Jesse Mendenhall, Brookline, NH (US);
MAGNEMOTION, INC., Devens, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides in some aspects a transport system comprising a guideway with a plurality of propulsion coils disposed along a region in which one or more vehicles are to be propelled. One or more vehicles are disposed on the guideway, each including a magnetic flux source. The guideway has one or more running surfaces that support the vehicles and along which they roll or slide. Each vehicle can have a septum portion of narrowed cross-section that is coupled to one or more body portions of the vehicle. The guideway includes a diverge region that has a flipper and an extension of the running surface at a vertex of the diverge. The flipper initiates switching of vehicle direction at a diverge by exerting a laterally directed force thereon.