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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventor:
Matthew Newman, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B03C 1/24 (2006.01); B03C 1/28 (2006.01); B03C 1/033 (2006.01); B03C 1/247 (2006.01); B03C 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B03C 1/24 (2013.01); B03C 1/0332 (2013.01); B03C 1/12 (2013.01); B03C 1/247 (2013.01); B03C 1/286 (2013.01); B03C 2201/18 (2013.01); B03C 2201/20 (2013.01); B03C 2201/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes flowing a magnetic and non-magnetic particle-containing liquid across a rotor that has alternating pole electromagnets, energizing the electromagnets and rotating the rotor to generate a changing magnetic field to generate eddy currents in the non-magnetic particles, repelling the non-magnetic particles to a collection point by the changing magnetic field, directing the magnetic particles from the electromagnets to the collection point, and removing the magnetic and non-magnetic particles from the collection point.