Apparatus and method utilizing the linear induction motor,...

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2011-03-01

2011-03-01

Morano, S. Joseph (Department: 3617)

Railways

Car-carried propulsion system

Electric

C105S095000, C104S293000, C191S013000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07895951

ABSTRACT:
Persons on a bicycle or other muscle-powered vehicle, equipped through an attachment means, with a reaction plate secondary of a linear induction motor, LIM, receive intermittent, augmenting propulsion forces from a sequence of spaced LIM primary coil assemblies, positioned flush with a surface on a pathway, to augment the rider's muscle-created propelling forces when the LIM primaries are receiving power supplied by a utility. At each LIM primary, interacting magnetic fields are commonly created as the attached bicycle LIM secondary is moveably positioned by the rider proximately the centerline of a respective LIM primary. The augmenting propelling force results as thrust, derived from the interaction of the respective magnetic fields of the primary and secondary of the now temporarily completed linear induction motor at the respective, spaced locations of the primaries along the pathway. Selectively specified attachment means are provided to mount and to control the vertical position of the LIM secondary on the bicycle or other, manually-powered vehicle.

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