A track element of a non-contact bearing extending in a length direction. The track element includes a conductive material strip having a facing surface with a height and width and a rear surface opposite the facing surfaces. The conductive material strip includes a slit extending in a height direction to form a first leg and a second leg, in which the first leg is bent in a zig-zag shape and the second leg is bent in a zig-zag shape that is complementary to the bending of the first leg. When the conductive material strip is viewed in a direction parallel to the facing surface, the first leg and the second leg cross each other at least once.

A rotor assembly for an axial magnetic bearing includes a shaft portion and a disc attached to the shaft portion. The disc includes a conical surface on a portion reaching radially from the aperture of the disc a distance away from the aperture. A fastening mechanism includes an aperture for the shaft portion so that the fastening mechanism includes a conical surface matching the conical surface of the disc. The fastening mechanism and the shaft portion are shaped to enable the fastening mechanism to be tightened axially against the conical surface of the disc so as to arrange the conical surface of the fastening mechanism to press the conical surface of the disc towards the center line of the shaft portion. Thus, the fastening mechanism acts against the centrifugal force and keeps the disc centric placed.

A magnetic bearing (20; 220; 320) comprises: a rotor (22; 322) to be supported for rotation about an axis (502); a stator (24; 224) extending from a first end (30) to a second end (32) and comprising: one or more first permanent magnets (50); one or more second permanent magnets (52) axially spaced from the one or more first permanent magnets; one or more intermediate permanent magnets (60; 230; 232) axially between the one or more first permanent magnets and one or more second permanent magnets; laminate teeth (64A, 64B, 66A, 66B) radially inward of the one or more intermediate permanent magnets; and a plurality of radial windings (34A, 34B, 36A, 36B), respectively encircling a respective associated tooth of the plurality of teeth.

Non-contact bearing system, such as a magnetic levitation system, having a geometry. The geometry includes a plurality of track elements arranged to nest together in a length direction. The plurality of track elements are shaped to define at least an upper and a lower null flux crossing and the plurality of nested track elements form a conductive metamaterial. Method for constructing a metamaterial null flux magnetic levitation track with tessellating elements of stamped conductors.

Disclosed are a magnetic bearing, a compressor and an air conditioner. The magnetic bearing includes a radial stator, wherein the radial stator has a plurality of stator teeth extending inwardly in a radial direction thereof; two axial stators are arranged on two axial sides of the stator teeth, respectively; and radial control coils are wound on the stator teeth, each radial control coil being located outside an area of the stator teeth covered oppositely by the two axial stators. The magnetic bearing, the compressor and the air conditioner can effectively reduce the degree of coupling between a radial electromagnetic control magnetic circuit and an axial electromagnetic control magnetic circuit, and reduce the control difficulty of the magnetic bearing.

A bearing arrangement (100) for a spinning rotor shaft (200) of an open-end spinning device, a spinning rotor shaft (200) for such a bearing arrangement (100) and a spinning rotor drive device comprising such a bearing arrangement (100) and such a spinning rotor shaft (200). The bearing arrangement (100) comprises at least one active magnetic radial bearing (110) for the spinning rotor shaft (200) which can be influenced by means of an electronic control system (300). The bearing arrangement is characterized in that the bearing arrangement (100) comprises an active magnetic axial bearing (130) for the spinning rotor shaft (200) which can be influenced by means of the or another electronic control system (300).

A thrust disc for a magnetic bearing, wherein the thrust disc comprises: a body, which is adapted to be mounted on a shaft and which has a first offset yield strength and a first magnetic permeability, and at least one flange which is fixed to the body in a position where it can interact with a thrust stator in order to form a magnetic bearing and which has a second offset yield strength and a second magnetic permeability; wherein the first offset yield strength is higher than the second offset yield strength; and wherein the first magnetic permeability is smaller than the second magnetic permeability. Additionally, the magnetic bearing can be equipped with such a thrust disc. An apparatus can be equipped with such a magnetic bearing.

The invention relates to a rotary blood pump including a housing having an internal chamber, a blood inlet port and a blood outlet port, a rotor including a plurality of blades and being adapted to rotate within the chamber. The pump includes a bearing system for controlling the position of the rotor wherein the bearing system includes one or more permanent magnets embedded in the rotor and one or more electromagnetic field inducing means embedded in the housing. The magnets embedded in the rotor are influenced by the electromagnetic field inducing means embedded in the housing for controlling the position of the rotor relative to the internal chamber of the housing and for driving rotation of the impeller within the chamber of the housing.

A pump may include a stator, a rotor, and an impeller. The stator may include one or more electromagnets and one or more permanent magnets. The rotor may include an armature, one or more complementary permanent magnets, and a pull magnet configured to position the rotor in an axial direction. The rotor may be disposed within the stator. The complementary permanent magnets and the one or more permanent magnets of the stator may create magnetic bearings. The armature may be aligned with at least one of the electromagnets of the stator and configured to rotate the rotor with respect to the stator. The impeller may be coupled to the rotor.

A linear actuator for an active engine mount of a vehicle has a stator with a coil that can be fed with electric current for generating an electromagnetic field and an actuating element that is mounted in axially movable fashion with reference to the stator. The actuating element comprises an armature and a ram extending in axial direction and is so mounted in the stator by means of at least one spring element that it can be moved axially in frictionless fashion when the coil is fed with current. The actuating element comprises a support element of a non-magnetic light-weight construction material extending in radial direction between the armature and the ram. Advantageously, the armature is provided only in such regions where there run magnetically relevant field lines of the electromagnetic field of the coil.