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Preliminary Investigations on a Diamagnetically Levitated Linear Conveyor

Barrot, Francois
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Chapuis, Dominique  
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Bosgiraud, Thomas
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2006
IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications

Diamagnetic levitation is the only passive levitation at room temperature. It is interesting to use this principle for a contactless conveyor in applications where friction and wear-particle contamination should be avoided such as in a microfactory. Using planar arrangements of permanent magnets, it is indeed possible to levitate a conveyor made of diamagnetic materials. In this article the authors are investigating the use of diamagnetic levitation in conjunction with various contact-less drive concepts to design a totally contact-free conveyor to carry small components in microfactories.

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DOI
10.1541/ieejias.126.1341
Author(s)
Barrot, Francois
Chapuis, Dominique  
Bosgiraud, Thomas
Loehr, Bernhard Loehr
Sache, Laurent
Moser, Roland  
Bleuler, Hannes  
Date Issued

2006

Published in
IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications
Volume

126-A

Issue

10

Start page

1341

End page

1344

Subjects

[MICRO]

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diamagnetic

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levitation

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conveyor

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linear drive

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microfactory

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REVIEWED

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November 21, 2006
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