TY - JOUR
T1 - Characteristics of levitating X-Y transporter using HTS bulks
AU - Akamatsu, T.
AU - Ueda, H.
AU - Ishiyama, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 5, 2002. This work was supported in part by Grant-in Aid for basic research, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. The authors are with the Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan (e-mail: atsushi@mn.waseda.ac.jp). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TASC.2003.813024
PY - 2003/6
Y1 - 2003/6
N2 - High-Tc superconducting bulk has been used for magnetic levitation systems such as flywheel energy storage system and noncontact transport system. We have been investigating the electromagnetic behavior of high temperature superconductor (HTS) bulks to realize a X-Y (two-dimensional) magnetic levitating transporter without any fixed guides. We have investigated qualitatively the characteristics of the lift and the restoring force of an YBCO bulk under various field-cooling conditions and permanent-magnet arrangements. In this paper, we evaluate the most suitable 4-permanent-magnet arrangement through lift and restoring force measurements and numerical analysis by the finite element method (FEM) using the current vector potential.
AB - High-Tc superconducting bulk has been used for magnetic levitation systems such as flywheel energy storage system and noncontact transport system. We have been investigating the electromagnetic behavior of high temperature superconductor (HTS) bulks to realize a X-Y (two-dimensional) magnetic levitating transporter without any fixed guides. We have investigated qualitatively the characteristics of the lift and the restoring force of an YBCO bulk under various field-cooling conditions and permanent-magnet arrangements. In this paper, we evaluate the most suitable 4-permanent-magnet arrangement through lift and restoring force measurements and numerical analysis by the finite element method (FEM) using the current vector potential.
KW - FEM
KW - HTS bulk
KW - Levitating transporter
KW - Static characteristic
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2003.813024
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2003.813024
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0041972674
VL - 13
SP - 2161
EP - 2164
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
SN - 1051-8223
IS - 2 II
T2 - 2002 Applied Superconductivity Conference
Y2 - 4 August 2002 through 9 August 2002
ER -