Electricity: magnetically operated switches – magnets – and electr – Magnets and electromagnets – Superconductive type
Patent
1991-05-22
1994-03-29
Picard, Leo P.
Electricity: magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electr
Magnets and electromagnets
Superconductive type
310 12, 310 905, 505879, 34081562, 40426, 40449, H01F 722
Patent
active
052988759
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for levitating a magnetic body. The apparatus includes a structure (10) comprised of a material that is superconductive below a critical temperature. The structure includes at least one Josephson junction device (14) for passing a variable current therethrough for controlling an amount of magnetic flux penetration into the structure. At a first current flow magnetic flux generated by a magnetic body (12) is excluded from the structure and the magnetic body is levitated above a surface of the structure. At a second current flow the magnetic flux penetrates the structure, causing he levitating magnetic body to approach a surface of the structure. Controllably applying a current to an array (30) of superconductive tiles (34), forming Josephson tunnel junctions (38), is shown to provide a lateral motion of, or a rotation of, the magnetic body relative to the surface.
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Laibowitz Robert B.
Lasher Gordon J.
Barrerg R.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Picard Leo P.
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