公开(公告)号：US20200030869A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-30

申请号：US16595125

申请日：2019-10-07

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Randal Dively ,  Ralph Conrad ,  S. George Luckey, JR. ,  Andrey Ilinich ,  Franco Leonardi ,  Seth Avery ,  Patrick McCleer

IPC: B21D43/24

Abstract: A method of separating blanks from a stack includes positioning a magnetic field generator in a fixed location proximate a peripheral edge of an upper portion of the stack, activating the magnetic field generator such that eddy currents are generated and result in a force vector in a direction away from a top-most blank of the stack, and pushing a blank, or multiple blanks, immediately below the top-most blank away from the top-most blank by the eddy currents.