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Title: Corridor guided transport system utilizing permanent magnet levitation

Patent Application ·
OSTI ID:85577

The invention relates to a corridor guided transport system including a guided goods conveyance container utilizing permanent magnet levitation. The transport system of the invention eliminates the need for the wheel and track arrangement presently required by known and utilized conventional train systems and also required by some conventional magnetic levitation transport systems and, as a result, is safer to operate and maintain than either of these known transportation systems.

Research Organization:
Department of the Interior, Washington, DC (United States)
Assignee:
Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
Application Number:
PAN: 8-408,797; TRN: 51812356
OSTI ID:
85577
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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