Railways – Magnetically suspended car
Patent
1990-04-06
1992-02-04
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Railways
Magnetically suspended car
104285, 104286, B60L 1304
Patent
active
050851497
ABSTRACT:
The improved support and guidance system includes a super conductor mounted in a vehicle and positioned to be above and on both sides of the upper end of a rail. The super conductor is provided with a housing and an iron core or shield is positioned within the housing to shield and shunt the return flux of the magnet so that the fringe field does not extend into the vehicle. In the preferred form of the invention, the rail in transverse section has an upper central flat surface with two concave surfaces extending to either side. The super conductors are positioned above and generally parallel to the concave surfaces of the rail. The iron shield has a horizontal central portion above the flat top of the rail and side bulbous portions on either side immediately above and to the side of the super conductors. The invention has application to the magnetic support and guidance system, the vehicle with the guidance system thereon and the combination of such vehicle with the rails.
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Houston Area Research Center
Morano S. Joseph
Oberleitner Robert J.
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