579results about "Sliding/levitation railway systems" patented technology

The invention provides in some aspects a transport system comprising a guideway with a plurality of propulsion coils disposed along a region in which one or more vehicles are to be propelled. One or more vehicles are disposed on the guideway, each including a magnetic flux source. The guideway has one or more running surfaces that support the vehicles and along which they roll or slide. Each vehicle can have a septum portion of narrowed cross-section that is coupled to one or more body portions of the vehicle. The guideway includes a diverge region that has a flipper and an extension of the running surface at a vertex of the diverge. The flipper initiates switching of vehicle direction at a diverge by exerting a laterally directed force thereon.

A system for switching a transport vehicle comprising: a guideway, a vehicle that moves along the guideway, and a magnetic field source that creates a force on the vehicle to affect motion in a desired direction at a switch. Once the vehicle has started motion through the switch the guidance can be continued by use of permanent magnets until the normal guidance system is effective. The switching scheme can work with any suspension scheme, including wheels and maglev, and can work with any lateral guidance scheme, including horizontal guide wheels and magnetic guidance. The system can be used with very closely spaced vehicles, such as with Personal Rapid Transit, material handling, and elevators with multiple cabs in the same shaft.

Apparatus, systems and methods for levitating and moving objects are shown and described herein. The embodiments incorporate a track with lower rails having permanent magnets abutted against each other and aligned such that the upper surface of each of the lower rails has a uniform polarity; and the object with upper rails having permanent magnets aligned with the lower rails and oriented to oppose the polarity of the lower permanent magnets. Ferrous backing plates behind the lower rails and / or the upper rails may be incorporated. Embodiments may also incorporate a third rail of an electroconductive material, and a driving disc positioned near the third rail. Permanent magnets in the driving disc may be rotated with the driving disc in the presence of the third rail to accelerate the upper rails with respects to the lower rails.

The invention belongs to the field of rail traffic and relates to a U-shaped rail double-safety running and levitation driving energy-saving mechanism which is suitable for low-medium-speed maglev train double-safety running and levitation driving energy saving. The mechanism is composed of a U-shaped rail 1, a self-locking hydraulic traveling wheel mechanism 2, a connecting frame 3, a train body 4, an air spring 5, a bogie arm 6, a spindle 7, an aluminum sensing plate 8 and levitation magnets 9. By designing a U-shaped rail structure, production efficiency of the U-shaped rail is improved, roller consumption in hot rolling production is reduced, and production cost is lowered. By combining the U-shaped rail structure with the self-locking hydraulic traveling wheel mechanism, a maglev train is enabled to have a magnetic levitation and rubber wheel double-safety running mechanism, levitation-starting energy consumption of the maglev train is reduced remarkably, traction levitation energy consumption is reduced by 10-15%, and energy-saving effect is obvious. Running safety and accident emergency response capability are improved remarkably, and when a full-levitation system is in a failure, driven by a linear motor, a rubber wheel supporting train still can safely get to a target station.

A High Temperature Superconductor Maglev (HTSM) for Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) with a magnetic levitation structure for ETT capsule vehicles traveling in an evacuated tube. At least one ETT capsule travels within an evacuated tube, an upper and a lower cryostat respectively mount at the top and bottom of said ETT capsule along the length thereof, at least a plurality of superconductor levitation force elements divided between said upper and lower cryostats. The levitation force being spread over the length of capsule, however substantially concentrated in a compact cross-sectional area. At least a pair of permanent magnetic elements mounted at the top and bottom of the evacuated tube to levitate the capsule. At least a pair of capsule based switchable diverge force elements cooperate with at least a pair of tube based diverge force elements to steer the capsule while in an interchange.

The invention provides a vacuum pipeline docking technology and a high-speed permanent maglev train system. With the station-training docking technology, the door closing time of the maglev train inside the vacuum pipeline can be shortened for scores of seconds, so the rapid on-off can be realized. When a telescopic door and a separation cabin door are withdrawn to be close to the wall of the vacuum pipeline, the high-speed pass of the tray is free from being influenced. The telescopic door is locked by a permanent magnet suction disc, and the locking force is free from being controlled by the electric power, so the gas leakage and pressure relief caused by the invalid locking for sudden power down can be prevented. The energy can be remarkably saved, the energy can be saved by more than 97 percent compared with that of high-speed track train, and the energy can be saved by more than 99 percent compared with that of the airplane.

The present invention relates to a novel magnetic suspension and propulsion technologies, which are named as Magnetostatic Suspension (MSS) and Magnetostatic Propulsion (MSP) respectively because of their magnetostatic nature of forces generated. A spring-like magnetic force is produced through interactions between magnets and ferrous materials such as steel. To apply the technologies, four key embodiments of the invention have been invented and described: a MSS and MSP maglev vehicle system in which a vehicle body is lifted up and stabilized by magnetostatic forces above a steel rail both horizontally and vertically; a MSP long-stator linear motor system in which a rotor can be driven up along a magnet-free steel rail or long steel stator; a MSS Permanent Magnet Magnetic Bearing System (PMMB) system in which a steel shaft is levitated standstill by a fully permanent magnets assembly for frictionless rotating; a MSS maglev wind turbine system in which a magnet-free turbine body can hover standstill over a permanent magnet base assembly spinning frictionlessly with low inertia and low cut-in wind speed threshold.

The invention relates to a linear permanent magnet driving system and a permanent magnet driving maglev train rail system, the linear permanent magnet driving system comprises spiral rotors and stators, wherein at least one of the spiral rotor and the stator adopts the structure having a permanent magnet while the other one adopts the structure having the permanent magnet or a magnetizer; when the spiral rotors are driven by an engine to rotate, linear motion of the spiral rotors is achieved by means of the magnetic force between both, and speed of the linear motion of the spiral rotors can reach supersonic speed at most. By applying the linear permanent magnet driving system to the permanent magnet driving maglev train rail system, the entire rail can avoid the use of both permanent magnet and driving coil, and the construction cost of maglev train rail is equivalent to that of the current high-speed wheel / rail. The permanent magnet driving maglev train can save energy by 60 to 90% compared with wheel / rail train when traveling at low speed below 80 kilometers per hour and save energy by about 50% compared with high-speed wheel / rail train when traveling at high speed above 200 kilometers per hour. The invention can realize the interchangeability of maglev rail and common rail, leading the maglev rail to universality, networkability and compatibility in modern transportation.

A suspension maglev rail transit system includes an orbital system, a suspension system, a control system and a car system, wherein the control system comprises a drive system, a guidance system and asuspension control system, wherein the track system is suspended in the air through upright posts, the car system is suspended vertically below the track system through the suspension system, and thedrive system and the guidance system cooperate to drive the car system to operate in the track system. The invention utilizes the levitation force with the permanent magnet repulsion force as the main force and the electromagnetic regulation as the auxiliary force to suspend the car on the air track, and realizes the stable operation through the non-contact traction of the linear motor. The invention has the advantages of low energy consumption, high safety, no land occupation, low cost, strong climbing ability, small turning radius and wide adaptability.

The invention discloses a track component for a maglev train. The track component comprises a track, a bogie arranged on a maglev train body, a traction module, and levitation guide modules arranged on two sides of the track. The traction module is disposed in the middle of the track and comprises array structured permanent magnets in corresponding arrangement and a long stator coil; power supply is controlled for the long stator coil via the ground; the array structured permanent magnets are mounted on the bogie; the long stator coil is mounted on the track; the long stator coil and the array structured permanent magnets interact to produce tractive force for the maglev train. The track component has the advantages that utilization rate of energy resources is increased, energy consumption is lowered and vehicular equipment is simplified.

The invention provides a travel structure of a magnetic levitation type rail polling car, wherein the travel structure is fixedly arranged at the lower part of the bottom board of carriage of the rail polling car and comprises a plurality of floating frames which are sequentially arranged as well as a long stator linear motor traction device and an outer rotor motor driven supporting wheel device which are arranged on the floating frames; wherein the floating frames comprises a plurality of beam frames and corbel frames which are arranged at the two ends of the beam frame; the long stator linear motor traction device comprises a floating magnet module arranged on the corbel frame, a plurality of guiding magnet modules and a plurality of eddy braking magnet modules; the outer rotor motor driven supporting wheel device comprises a motor supporting wheel loading device which is arranged at the two ends of the beam frame and at the inner side of the corbel frame as well as an outer rotor motor supporting wheel arranged at the two ends of the bottom of the beam frame by the loading device. The invention can realize the compatible double traction pattern of long stator linear motor traction and outer rotor motor supporting wheel traction, so that the rail polling car can have the functions of high speed polling and low speed detection.

The invention provides an external thin-wall vacuum duct maglev traffic system of a power system. A vacuum duct with small wall thickness is adopted, a linear motor coil, a track levitation mechanism and other communication, detecting and control devices are arranged outside the duct and provide power, levitation force and control to vehicles in the duct in the state that one thin duct wall is used for separation. The material of the duct wall is required to have no effect on the electromagnetic field of a linear motor and the levitation magnetic field of a levitation device, for example, non-magnetized stainless steel, carbon alloy, glass fiber reinforced plastics or high-strength organic materials are adopted, or the duct is made of a composite material. The arrangement has the advantages that the installation construction of a linear motor stator and the levitation mechanism can be conveniently performed outside the duct; routine maintenance and repair during operation can also be performed outside the duct; mechatronic systems can be well cooled, and heat aggregation in the vacuum duct is avoided; and the space in the duct is not occupied; and the construction, maintenance and system operation costs of the vacuum duct high-speed maglev traffic system can be lowered.

Provided is a tube railway system that reduces noise and air resistance using a sealed evacuated tube as a passage for a tube railway, thereby allowing a train to run at a higher speed. A vacuum division management system and a vacuum blocking screen device for a tube railway system required to maintain vacuum are provided, in which the vacuum blocking screen device is operated to rapidly block a passage for a tube railway in response to an operation signal, is installed at every certain section or at a designated section of the tube railway, and is operated in a specific section when a vacuum maintenance problem occurs, or when the vacuum needs to be released, or when the train needs to stop immediately, thereby allowing the specific section to be isolated from other sections to have a degree of vacuum different from those of the other sections.

A High Temperature Superconductor Maglev (HTSM) for Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) with a magnetic levitation structure for ETT capsule vehicles traveling in an evacuated tube. At least one ETT capsule travels within an evacuated tube, an upper and a lower cryostat respectively mount at the top and bottom of said ETT capsule along the length thereof, at least a plurality of superconductor levitation force elements divided between said upper and lower cryostats. The levitation force being spread over the length of capsule, however substantially concentrated in a compact cross-sectional area. At least a pair of permanent magnetic elements mounted at the top and bottom of the evacuated tube to cooperate with the superconductor elements to levitate the capsule.

A circulated pneumatic tube transit system is used to transport passengers / cargo along a pair of pneumatic tubes, which are positioned along each other. Capsules are movably suspended within the tubes by either a maglev system or wheels. The capsules travel in opposite directions in each tube so that the system provides back and forth transportation between two destinations. A fluid loop mechanism cycles a volume of air through the tubes as a means to propel the capsules through each tube. A series of fluid loop mechanism can be air multipliers as the volume of air cycles through the tubes. Two one-directional valves are located at opposite ends of the tubes and are used to transfer the kinetic energy for an arriving capsule within one tube into kinetic energy for a departing capsule within the other tube.

A capsule for an evacuated tube transport system, the capsule comprising a capsule body for carrying passengers within an evacuated tube; a first door disposed in a first end of the body; and a first coupling mechanism and a first sealing mechanism arranged respectively to couple the capsule to another capsule at the end of the body while the capsules are moving and to establish a seal around the door and a corresponding door in the other capsule to enable passengers to move from one capsule to another through the doors without exposing the passengers to the pressure of the evacuated tube.

A high-speed transportation system, the system including at least one transportation tube having at least one track, at least one capsule configured for travel through the at least one tube between stations, a propulsion system adapted to propel the at least one capsule through the tube; a levitation system adapted to levitate the capsule within the tube, and at least one tube sealer arranged along the at least one tube and configured to create an airlock in the at least one tube. In embodiments, the tube sealer may include a gate valve and / or an airbag.

A transport and power system having a plurality of tubes or tunnels, a magnetic levitation and linear motor train, and a superconducting power cable. One of the tubes can be an escape, power distribution, and maintenance tunnel. These tubes can be above ground, below ground, at ground, or under water.

This disclosure describes an electromagnetic system for efficient propulsion, suspension, and guidance. The track is inexpensive totally passive steel. This linear form of the D.C. motor provides traction motor characteristics without physical contact, The moveable element (vehicle) comprises both the integrated armature and field magnet flux source which induces magnetizing flux into pairs of rails each energizing a set of interdigitated poles of alternating polarity in the track against which its own armature conductors interact for thrust and braking. This source of magnetic flux requires no power and provides passive suspension at any speed and, with control, guidance. The permanent magnet and control flux in common airgaps multiply the effectiveness of lateral control for magnetic stabilization and to restrain external forces.

A circulated pneumatic tube transit system is used to transport passengers / cargo along a pair of pneumatic tubes, which are positioned along each other. Capsules are movably suspended within the tubes by either a maglev system or wheels. The capsules travel in opposite directions in each tube so that the system provides back and forth transportation between two destinations. A fluid loop mechanism cycles a volume of air through the tubes as a means to propel the capsules through each tube. A series of fluid loop mechanism can be air multipliers as the volume of air cycles through the tubes. Two one-directional valves are located at opposite ends of the tubes and are used to transfer the kinetic energy for an arriving capsule within one tube into kinetic energy for a departing capsule within the other tube.

A High Temperature Superconductor Maglev (HTSM) for Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) with a magnetic levitation structure for ETT capsule vehicles traveling in an evacuated tube. At least one ETT capsule travels within an evacuated tube, an upper and a lower cryostat respectively mount at the top and bottom of said ETT capsule along the length thereof, at least a plurality of superconductor levitation force elements divided between said upper and lower cryostats. The levitation force being spread over the length of capsule, however substantially concentrated in a compact cross-sectional area. At least a pair of permanent magnetic elements mounted at the top and bottom of the evacuated tube to cooperate with the superconductor elements to levitate the capsule.

The invention provides a permanent magnet motor with an external spiral rotor and a permanent magnet suspension wheeltrack vehicular access system. The external part of the motor is provided with the external spiral rotor, so that larger output power is obtained with the same external diameter. The permanent magnet motor with the external spiral rotor is applied to efficient drive and efficient power generation recovery brake kinetic energy of a magnetic suspension train, can be used for driving a permanent magnet suspension wheeltrack subway, a permanent magnet suspension vehicle and a four-channel elevated railway passenger car, and is used for elevated permanent magnet suspension towing machine to convey cars or trucksin an enegy saving way. Due to the adoption of the elevated bidirectional four-channel permanent magnet suspension wheeltrack high-speed rail, the constructing cost of a permanent magnet suspension high-speed rail can be lower than that of the existing high-speed rail, and a realistic significance is realized on energy conservation of transportation sector and national energy-saving emission reduction.

The invention discloses a magnetic-levitation train suspension control method based on sliding mode variable structure control. The method comprises the steps that according to a kinetic equation of amagnetic-levitation train suspension control system, an electromagnet voltage equation and changes of a railway action surface, a dynamic model equation of the system is built; by using the linearized theory, the magnetic-levitation control system is analyzed and designed to obtain a nonlinear equation set, and the nonlinear equation set is approximated into a linearized model; according to the approximated model, the stability of the system is judged, an appropriate state variable is selected, the state variable which can be directly measured is selected as a feedback variable, and the feedback variable is subjected to state feedback control; the fundamental principle of a sliding mode control algorithm is analyzed and utilized, the magnetic-levitation control system model based on sliding mode control is built, and by adopting an appropriate control law, a design structure of a suspension controller is given. By means of the method, the performance of the controller in the suspension control system of a magnetic-levitation train can be improved, and the method can well meet the requirements for high response, stability and anti-interference performance in the suspension processof the magnetic-levitation train.

A vacuum track magnetically-levitated train system comprises a vacuum tunnel, a magnetically-levitated track, a magnetically levitated train, a station train operation system, a travelling train operation system and a general control train operation system. A switching door is arranged on the vacuum tunnel. The magnetically levitated train comprises a train head and train compartments. An in-train control system and an air circulation system are arranged inside the train head or the train compartments. A plurality of suspension frames are arranged on the lower side of the train head or the train compartments. The magnetically levitated track and each suspension frame form an inward holding structure. A suspension mechanism, a driving mechanism, a braking mechanism and a guiding mechanism are arranged between the magnetically levitated track and the train head or the train compartments. According to the vacuum track magnetically-levitated train system, the magnetically levitated train can be driven by changing lanes under the vacuum or low-vacuum environment, non-mechanical emergency braking is performed when the track system is powered off, non-contact power supply is performed when the train is operated at high speed, the purpose that the train does not need to be stopped for passengers for getting on or off the train when the magnetically levitated train passes through each station is achieved, the train operation efficiency and the passenger trip comfort are improved, and the market prospect is wide.

The magnetic suspension train operation controlling system can realize three functions of steering driving, protecting and monitoring. The hardware system includes programmable logic controller and its in-situ bus part, and three in-situ communication protocols including MPI, DP and FDL are used in train operation data communication. The software system is used to complete steering operation, operation control, network communication, automatic monitoring, failure treatment, automatic protection and other functions. The hardware system structure and the software system structure of the train operation controlling system have the creative features of: system redundance, safety against failure, self diagnosis, adaptive marshalling, safety logic interlocking, and safety function in the four stages of testing, operation, running and maintenance.

Apparatus, systems and methods for levitating and moving objects such as vehicles, doors and windows are shown and described herein. The embodiments incorporate a track with lower rails having lower permanent magnets and the object with upper rails having upper permanent magnets aligned with the lower rails and oriented to oppose the polarity of the lower permanent magnets. Ferrous backing plates may be incorporated behind the lower rails and / or the upper rails. Embodiments may also incorporate a third rail of an electroconductive material, and a driving disc positioned near the third rail. Permanent magnets in the driving disc may be rotated with the driving disc in the presence of the third rail to accelerate the upper rails with respects to the lower rails. The driving disc may be coupled one of the lower rails to maintain a desired alignment with the third rail.

An autonomous moving highway system including an elevated guideway having a support pier with a pier cap having a first end, a second end, an upper portion and a lower portion, where the lower portion of the pier cap is attached to the top end of the support pier, a first girder located at the first end of the pier cap and a second girder located at the second end of the pier cap, a first magnetically levitated (maglev) transportation track mounted to a bottom of the first girder and a second maglev transportation track mounted to a bottom of the second girder, a plurality of individual transportation pods, each transportation pod is configured to enclose a vehicle and at least one passenger of the vehicle, a computer control system configured to control power, propulsion, direction and motion of the plurality of transportation pods.

A numerally controlled machine-tool for machining the magnetically levitating rail is composed of main body with 36 m in length, vertical column, mainshaft box, control system and manipulating station. It features its other units including three drive mechanisms for X, A and B axises, a slide seat of vertical column, a rotary seat of vertical volumn and a slide saddle moving along vertical column. The said mainshaft box is arranged to slide saddle. The said control system and manipulating station are connected to slide seat. Its advantage is high precision in whole length range of workpiece.

A combination vehicle for the use of various roadways. The combination vehicle (1) consists of a traction. head (14) and a trailer element (15) for requirements of various types of use and in this combination, is determined for three alternative types of locomotion including wheel / road (6), whecl / rails (7) and magnetic levitation (8). For the whecl / rails (7) and wheel / road (6) types of locomotion, the vehicle is provided with a combined flange wheel (5) and street wheel (4). For its use as a maglev vehicle, at least four supports (11) with extendable or swing-out current-carrying magnetic coils (12) and asynchronous short-stator motors (13) arc arranged on both sides of the chassis.%! For the transition from one type of locomotion to another, the roadways (6, 7) are lowered relatively to each other using ramps. To overcome points of discontinuity such as intersections (38), switches (39) and level crossings, roadway sections (40, 41, 42, 43, 45) are lowered or swung out in relation to each other.