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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2014
Applicant:
Airbus Sas, Blagnac, FR;
Inventors:
Emmanuel Joubert, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Charles Nespoulous, Saint Cloud, FR;
Bruno Rechain, Paris, FR;
Hichem Smaoui, Paris, FR;
Assignee:
AIRBUS SAS, Blagnac, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64F 1/04 (2006.01); B64C 25/32 (2006.01); B64F 1/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64F 1/04 (2013.01); B64C 25/32 (2013.01); B64F 1/22 (2013.01); B64F 1/228 (2013.01); Y02T 50/826 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device for moving aircraft along the ground includes at least one runway and at least one aircraft. The aircraft is secured to a tractor element having a magnetic mass formed mainly of type II superconductor material and the runway includes stator coils arranged in the runway with at least one line of coils parallel to an axis of the runway. A command/control system supplies power to the stator coils to generate a magnetic field that levitates the tractor element, magnetized beforehand into a phase II superconducting state, above the runway.