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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Paul Puskarich, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Clark D. Della Silva, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles A. Schwalbach, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David Samuel Kumka, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andy Weidner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paulina Mustafa, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-Marc Gery, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A levitator is disclosed. The levitator may include a repulsion wire coil having a vertical coil axis, a position control wire coil having a vertical coil axis, a rotation control wire coil having a horizontal coil axis, and a controller coupled to each of the repulsion wire coil, position wire coil, and rotation wire coil, where the controller is configured to independently control currents provided to each of the repulsion wire coil, position wire coil, and rotation wire coil to levitate an item.