Magnetic band

• US 8,403,402 B1
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mario Placido Portela
• Original Assignee: Mario Placido Portela
• Inventors: Portela, Mario Placido
• Primary Examiner(s): LYJAK, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US13/247,434
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 293/126, 293/127, 293/128, 701/45, 296/187.03
• US Class Current: 296/187.03
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/04 External Ornamental or guard strips; Ornamental inscriptive devices thereon fastening strips or bars to sheets or plates by means of clips F16B5/12
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/42 extending primarily along the sides of, or completely encircling, a vehicle ornamental or guard strips B60R13/04
• CPC Class Codes: B61D 49/00 Other details
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 43/18 preventing collision or grounding; reducing collision damage reducing pollution by collision B63B25/082

Abstract

The device of the present invention is an magnetic band to be applied to vehicles such as car, boats, race cars, passengers or cargo cars of railroad trains as well as in trucks and all other kind of land vehicles. The magnetic band is such to cause repulsion between cars as they approach one to the other one.

Claims

1. A magnetic band comprising:

a magnet;

a support member to hold the magnet;

an adhesive layer to tide said support member to the side of a vehicle and,

an activation system.

5. The magnetic band of claim 1 further comprising a magnetic shield.

6. The magnetic band of claim 5 where said magnetic shield is a lead film.

7. The magnetic band of claim 5 where said magnetic shield is a Nickel Alloy.

8. The magnetic band of claim 7 where said Nickel Alloy is composed by 80% Nickel, 4.5% Molybdenum, and balance Iron.

9. The magnetic band of claim 1 where said magnet is a natural magnet.

10. The magnetic band of claim 9 where said natural magnet is a magnetic rock.

11. The magnetic band of claim 9 where said natural magnet is a Yttrium Cobalt alloy.

12. The magnetic band of claim 11 where said Yttrium Cobalt alloy has the Yttrium Cobalt ratio equal to 1 Yttrium Atom per 5 Cobalt Atoms.

13. The magnetic band of claim 9 where said natural magnet is sealed in a shell of plastic.

14. The magnetic band of claim 9 where said natural magnet is electroplated with a layer of a noble metal.

15. The magnetic band of claim 14 where said noble metal is gold.

16. The magnetic band of claim 1 where said magnet is an electromagnet.

17. The magnetic band of claim 16 further comprising:

an electrical circuitry, electrically connecting said electromagnet to a power source, and;

a power source.

18. The magnetic band of claim 17 where said power source is a main car battery.

19. The magnetic band of claim 1 where said activation system is manual.

20. The magnetic band of claim 1 where said activation system is triggered by a photoelectric cell.

2. The magnetic band of claim one further comprising a plurality of fastening means to provide additional support to the adhesive layer.

3. The magnetic band of claim 2 where said fastening means are bolts.

4. The magnetic band of claim 3 where said bolts are made of plastic.