发明名称 Apparatus and method utilizing the linear induction motor, LIM, to augment muscle-powered vehicle travel
摘要 Persons on a bicycle or other muscle-powered vehicle, equipped through an attachment means, with a reaction plate secondary of a linear induction motor, LIM, receive intermittent, augmenting propulsion forces from a sequence of spaced LIM primary coil assemblies, positioned flush with a surface on a pathway, to augment the rider's muscle-created propelling forces when the LIM primaries are receiving power supplied by a utility. At each LIM primary, interacting magnetic fields are commonly created as the attached bicycle LIM secondary is moveably positioned by the rider proximately the centerline of a respective LIM primary. The augmenting propelling force results as thrust, derived from the interaction of the respective magnetic fields of the primary and secondary of the now temporarily completed linear induction motor at the respective, spaced locations of the primaries along the pathway. Selectively specified attachment means are provided to mount and to control the vertical position of the LIM secondary on the bicycle or other, manually-powered vehicle.
申请公布号 US7895951(B1) 申请公布日期 2011.03.01
申请号 US20080117651 申请日期 2008.05.08
申请人 MCGRATH JR PATRICK JOSEPH 发明人 MCGRATH, JR. PATRICK JOSEPH
分类号 B60L13/03 主分类号 B60L13/03
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