Patent Yard Sign in
Expired Canadian patentCanada

Levitation and guide mechanism for curved track in inductive repulsion type vehicle magnetic levitation and guide system

CA 1136721 A · Owner: Japanese National Railways · Inventors: Kitano, Yoshiyuki; Arima, Kazutaka

CIPO record

Overview

Drawings and full text

Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.

Open the CIPO record

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An improvement in an inductive repulsion type vehicle magnetic levitation and guide system for a curved track in which the vehicle is levitated by an electromagnetic force generated between levitation conductors having the same time constant and laid in two parallel rows on the ground at specific intervals in the direction of travel of the vehicle and levitation superconductive magnets on the vehicle capable of being electromagnetically coupled with the levitation conductors the magnets, being opposed to the levitation conductors at a specific distance from the Levitation conductors. The vehicle is guided by an electromagnetic force generated between guide conductors having the same time …

Read the whole patent

Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Granted November 30, 1982. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 30, 1999.
  • We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
FiledNovember 13, 1979
GrantedNovember 30, 1982
Term endedNovember 30, 1999
Patent numberCA 1136721 A
Classification (IPC)B60L13/00 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From CIPO dates

1980198219841986198819901992199419961998Application filedNov 13, 1979Patent grantedNov 30, 1982Term endedNov 30, 1999

Sources & verification

Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.