Abstract:
A container-swappable vehicle includes a container including a container body for receiving a cargo loaded therein, a rotation shaft at a front end portion or a rear end portion thereof, and a coupling body surrounding an external circumferential surface of the rotation shaft, the rotation shaft and the coupling body being connected to each other to be relatively rotated therebetween; and a drive module including a drive device to perform driving, a coupling space including an open side, and a magnetic module provided in the coupling space to allow the coupling body of the container to enter the coupling space through an opening portion by driving toward the coupling body of the container and move the container through driving by the magnetic module being fastened to the coupling body by magnetic force.
Abstract:
Apparatuses, systems, and methods of use for a magnetic coupling device is disclosed. The magnetic device may have a plurality of magnets to create a magnetic field to the devices enclosed within the device. The coupling device may have a housing that encloses and/or partially surrounds one or more rotatable shafts. The coupling device may couple an output shaft from a motor to an input shaft of a generator. The coupling device may have an electric coil that when energized may vary any applied magnetic field to the rotatable shafts. The magnetic device may have a first plurality of magnets positioned at a first radial position and a second plurality of magnets positioned at a second radial position, with the first magnets being rotatable and the second magnets being stationary. Multiple magnetic coupling devices may be coupled together in series to provide increased magnetic fields to the enclosed system.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a braking system of an electromagnetic motor, the electromagnetic motor having a moveable output shaft, comprising the steps of: receiving a velocity signal and/or an acceleration signal based on movement of the output shaft, said velocity signal and/or acceleration signal having a respective frequency spectrum; identifying an event from the velocity and/or the acceleration signal using the respective frequency spectrum, wherein said event corresponds to an uncontrolled movement of the output shaft and has a characteristic frequency spectrum.
Abstract:
An example electromagnetic actuator includes a drive shaft, a motor operable to rotate the drive shaft, and a load shaft coupled to an armature body. A clutch is operable to control whether the drive shaft engages the load shaft. A rotatable portion of the clutch corotates with the drive shaft and includes a field winding and a clutch body. A stationary portion of the clutch includes an exciter winding that is inductively coupled to the rotatable portion and is operable to energize the field winding. The field winding is operable, when energized, to provide a magnetic field that causes engagement or disengagement between the clutch body and an armature body. A method of operating an electromagnetic actuator is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A drive circuit for an electromagnetic brake is used in a circuit including a motor, a converter converting a DC voltage into an AC voltage to be generated between a pair of DC link buses, and an inverter converting the DC voltage into an AC voltage and driving the motor. A full-bridge circuit has a pair of power supply terminals connected to the pair of DC link buses, and a pair of output terminals connected to the electromagnetic brake.
Abstract:
A system and method of a variable speed cooling fan (30) for a skid mounted compressor (22). A magnetic variable speed clutch (38) is mounted to the cooling fan drive shaft (28). The clutch mechanism is driven via by a drive pulley (38) on the crankshaft of the engine (24) driving the compressor (22). The speed of the fan (30) is varied dependent upon the temperature of the fluids being cooled.
Abstract:
An example electromagnetic actuator includes a drive shaft, a motor operable to rotate the drive shaft, and a load shaft coupled to an armature body. A clutch is operable to control whether the drive shaft engages the load shaft. A rotatable portion of the clutch corotates with the drive shaft and includes a field winding and a clutch body. A stationary portion of the clutch includes an exciter winding that is inductively coupled to the rotatable portion and is operable to energize the field winding. The field winding is operable, when energized, to provide a magnetic field that causes engagement or disengagement between the clutch body and an armature body. A method of operating an electromagnetic actuator is also disclosed.
Abstract:
Provided is a motor drive device including: a current detector that detects a current flowing through a power line supplying power to a brake-equipped motor; and a controller that controls the brake-equipped motor based on the current value detected by the current detector. The controller includes a determination part that determines, when actuating the brake-equipped motor whose brake is in a braking state, states of the power line and the brake-equipped motor, based on the current value detected by the current detector after applying a voltage between the power lines. The controller outputs a release instruction signal for releasing the brake when the determination part determines that the states are normal.
Abstract:
A self-charging type electromagnetic retarder including a main portion having a stator yoke, a plurality of magnetic coils forming multi-phase connections, and a steel rotor, a control device, an electromagnetic retarder having a high revolution region, capacitor portion for storing excess electric power, a diode, and a low revolution region. The magnetic coils of each phase are connected with capacitors to form a resonance circuit. Transistors for the high revolution region are connected in series to each of the multi-phase connections. Transistors for the low revolution region are connected in series to each of the multi-phase connections through the capacitor portion and the diode. At the high revolution region, excess electric power obtained from the electric power generating type electromagnetic retarder portion is stored in the capacitor portion, and at the low revolution region, the magnetic coils are excited by the electric power stored in the capacitor portion.
Abstract:
A method for operating a power supply unit for an electrical system of a motor vehicle, the power supply unit having an electric generator having a stator having a stator winding and a rotor having a rotor winding, as well as a field current controller assigned to the rotor winding for selecting the setpoint of the current flowing through the rotor winding; the electric generator being set into rotation without a current being specified by the rotor winding, thereby generating a starting voltage; at least one component of the power supply unit or of the vehicle electrical system being energized by the starting voltage.