Amusement devices: toys – Having permanent magnet – Contacting – mutually attracted members
Patent
1987-02-24
1989-11-07
Hafer, Robert A.
Amusement devices: toys
Having permanent magnet
Contacting, mutually attracted members
446134, 446355, 446330, A63H 3326, A63H 322, A63H 320
Patent
active
048788783
ABSTRACT:
A system for stabilizing, powering and controlling walking animatronic figures or vehicles by magnetically attracting and/or repelling the feet of such structures, using various cooperative combinations of interacting ferromagnetic plates and electromagnets to guide and stabilize the structures along a platform, as well as facilitating transformer coupling of AC power and/or command signals from the platform to the walking figure without the need for an umbilical.
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Hafer Robert A.
Muir D. Neal
The Walt Disney Company
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