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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2015
Arx Pax, Llc, Saratoga, CA (US);
D. Gregory Henderson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shauna Moran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mitchell Dougherty, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Victor Espinoza, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert William Melvin, Portland, OR (US);
James Janicki, Phoenix, MD (US);
David P Olynick, Albany, NY (US);
Arx Pax, LLC, Saratoga, CA (US);
Abstract
A hoverboard is described. The hoverboard includes four hover engines each including a motor. The motor rotates an arrangement of magnets to induce eddy currents and generate magnetic lift which causes the hoverboard to hover in the air. The hoverboard can be tilted to propel it in a particular direction. The hover engines can each be coupled to a tilt mechanism which is coupled to a flexible rider platform. When rider platform is flexed via rider induced forces, the hover engines can be tilted individually to provide translational forces.