A SWITCH FOR VEHICLES
    1.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250075439A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-06

    申请号:US18723832

    申请日:2022-12-22

    Abstract: A switch for vehicles is provided. In particular, a switch for a levitation rail for a vehicle is provided. The switch comprises: a straight rail; a curved rail, curving away from the straight rail, the straight rail and the curved rail comprising magnetic material to magnetically interact with a motor of the vehicle; and a magnetic gap between the straight rail and the curved rail, the magnetic gap comprising a region, at which the straight rail and the curved rail meet, of lower magnetic permeability relative to the straight rail and the curved rail.

    PROPULSION MOTOR TOPOLOGIES
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250070632A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-27

    申请号:US18723831

    申请日:2022-12-22

    Abstract: Various propulsion motor topologies are provided. In particular, a propulsion motor is provided which includes: at least one ferromagnetic core having opposite ends joined by a body forming a magnetic flux pathway between the opposite ends; a magnetic flux inducing device to induce a first magnetic flux in the at least one ferromagnetic core along the magnetic flux pathway; and armature coils to induce a varying second magnetic flux in the at least one ferromagnetic core perpendicular to the magnetic flux pathway, to assist inducing a propulsion force perpendicular to the magnetic flux pathway. The at least one ferromagnetic core is shaped to form one or more total forces perpendicular to the propulsion force due to the first magnetic flux.

    System and method for hyperloop pod protection using braking systems

    公开(公告)号:US12091069B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-17

    申请号:US17794959

    申请日:2021-03-09

    CPC classification number: B61L23/34 B61H7/083 B61L3/16 B61L2210/04

    Abstract: A system and method for performing braking operations on a hyperloop pod are disclosed herein. The hyperloop pod may have a secondary braking system, wherein the secondary braking system may be operable to provide a first braking force. The hyperloop pod may have a transponder communication system and a line-of-sight system, wherein the line-of-sight system may be operable to detect a second hyperloop pod at a line-of-sight distance. The hyperloop pod may have a memory and a processor operable to detect a second hyperloop pod and determine a collision margin between the hyperloop pod and the second hyperloop pod. The hyperloop pod may engage the secondary braking system if a safety margin is equal to or greater than the collision margin.

    VEHICLE-BASED GUIDED SWITCHING
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230087563A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-23

    申请号:US17994461

    申请日:2022-11-28

    Abstract: A track switching arrangement for a track-based guided transportation system, wherein the track switching arrangement forms diverging pathways and enables vehicle-side switching of a vehicle in the guided transportation system. The track switching arrangement includes an upstream pathway; two downstream pathways; and a path switching transition region having the diverging pathways between the upstream pathway and the two downstream pathways. Each of the pathways includes track elements configured to interact with one or more respective bearings of the vehicle to provide levitation to the vehicle and/or guidance for the vehicle.

    Asymmetrical magnet arrays
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11574755B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-07

    申请号:US17537965

    申请日:2021-11-30

    Inventor: Casey Handmer

    Abstract: Magnet array structure includes a first linear magnet array having a plurality of consecutively arranged first Halbach arrays and a second linear magnet array having a plurality of consecutively arranged second Halbach arrays. The first linear magnet array, from a first end of the magnet array structure to a second end of the magnet array structure, having magnetic flux orientations rotating in a first direction, and the second linear magnet array, from the first end of the magnet array structure to the second end of the magnet array structure, having magnetic flux orientations rotating in a second direction that is opposite the first direction. The first linear magnet array is arranged parallel to the second linear magnet array so that, between the first and second ends of the magnet array structure, the first Halbach magnetic arrays are linearly offset from the second Halbach magnetic arrays.

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