Switching electromagnetic moving system

• US 20080011184A1
• Filed: 05/01/2007
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Industrial Design Laboratories, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Industrial Design Laboratories, Inc.
• Inventors: Lopatinsky, Edward, Schaefer, Daniel, Fedoseyev, Lev
• Application Number:
  US11/799,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20080011184A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 104/282
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 19/24 Electric toy railways; Systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2018/165 Means to improve adhesion of the vehicles on the track, e.g. using magnetic forces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 13/03 Electric propulsion by linear motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60M 1/10 Arrangements for energising and de-energising power line sections using magnetic actuation by the passing vehicle

Abstract

A switching electromagnetic moving system is comprised of at least one track and at least one moving body located on the track. The track is comprised of a power buss, at least two track sections and a controller. Each track section has a contact surface and comprises electrically connected coil windings spaced apart in a series way to form a multi-phase linear stator. Each track section has a switch and at least one sensor to detect the position of the moving body on the track. For each track section the sensor of the preceding track section relative to the direction of travel of the moving body controls the switch to power on and the sensor of the subsequent track section controls the switch to power off.

Claims

1. A switching electromagnetic moving system comprising at least one track and at least one moving body located on said track, wherein:

(i) said track comprises a power buss, at least two track sections and a controller;

(ii) each of said track sections has a contact surface and comprises electrically connected coil windings spaced apart in a series way along said track section to form a multi-phase linear stator;

(iii) said track sections are electrically connected in parallel with said power buss;

(iv) each coil winding is located on a plane that substantially coincides with said contact surface and has a magnetic axis substantially perpendicular to said contact surface;

(v) each track section has a switch and at least one sensor to detect the moving body position on said track;

(vi) said sensor of each track section controls the switch of the subsequent track section relative to the direction of the moving body displacement to apply power to the linear stator of said subsequent track section;

(vii) said sensor of each track section controls the switch of the preceding track section in respect to the direction of the moving body displacement to remove power from the linear stator of said preceding track section;

(viii) said moving body is placed upon said contact surface and comprises at least one magnetized object with magnetic axis substantially perpendicular to said contact surface such as to cause interaction with the linear stator when it is powered, thus creating a force tending to propel said moving body along said track.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said controller comprises a voltage regulator and/or a frequency regulator to change the attraction of said moving body to said track section and/or speed of said moving body correspondingly.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said frequency regulator is connected with said voltage regulator to change the voltage depending on the selected frequency.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said controller comprises a phase sequence commutator thus enabling said moving body to travel in either of two opposite directions along said track.

5. The system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said switch of each track section is made as a logic switch further electrically connected with said phase sequence commutator, said logic switch provides to power or de-power said linear stator of the same track section depending on the direction of travel of said moving body.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system is comprised of at least two identical tracks, two moving bodies, and two controllers correspondingly, and said tracks are spaced apart thus configuring said system as a race track with independent control of the moving bodies and permitting competition.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said linear stator is executed as at least a 3 phase linear stator.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said coil windings of said linear stator are made as a printed circuit board.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said coil windings are made as surface mounted coils spaced on a printed circuit board.

10. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said track is executed as a closed loop.

11. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said track sections are executed as straight and/or curvilinear track sections.

12. The system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the length of said curvilinear track section is not more than the length of said linear track sections.

13. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each track section has one sensor that is a Hall effect sensor;

14. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each track section has two sensors that are Hall effect sensors placed at each end parts of said track section, and said switch of each track section is controlled in such a way that the nearest sensor of the preceding track section relative to the direction of travel of said moving body controls said switch to power on, while the nearest sensor of the subsequent track section controls said switch to power off.

15. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said magnetized object is made as at least one permanent magnet.