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Magnetic bearing with alternating actuators and sensors

US5763972A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 16, 1996
Grant dateJun 9, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 16, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF16C32/048
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A magnetic bearing for magnetic centering of a rotor relative to a stator relative to two radial centering axes includes actuators operating relative to centering axes and speed sensors having sensing axes coplanar with the centering axes. The rotor includes a ring partly defining the airgaps of the actuators and the sensors.

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