A personal care product system is provided. The personal care product system has a stand that has a first and second stand permanent docking magnet. A stand inductive charging coil is also positioned within the stand. A handle that has first and second handle permanent docking magnets is removably mounted to the stand. A handle inductive charging coil is positioned within the handle. The handle has a first handle flux guiding member and a second handle flux guiding member. The stand has a first stand flux guiding member.

A magnetic biasing assembly comprising: an inner element comprising: a north polarised inner arc, and a south polarised inner arc disposed axially adjacent to the north polarised inner arc, and an outer element arranged to rotate relative to the inner element about an axis, the inner and outer elements being substantially concentric, the outer element comprising: a north polarised outer arc, and a south polarised outer arc disposed axially adjacent to the north polarised outer arc, wherein the inner and outer polarised arcs are arranged so as to have a stable equilibrium position and are arranged to exert a magnetic moment between the inner and outer elements in a direction towards the stable equilibrium position when the inner and outer elements are not in the stable equilibrium position.

Generally, a system for generating a magnetic field having a desired magnetic field strength and/or a desired magnetic field direction is provided. The system can include a plurality of magnetic segments and/or a plurality of ferromagnetic segments. Each magnetic segment can be positioned adjacent to at least one of the plurality of magnetic segments. Each ferromagnetic segment can be positioned adjacent to at least one of the plurality of magnetic segments. In various embodiments, a size, shape, positioning and/or number of magnetic segments and/or ferromagnetic segments in the system, as well as a magnetization direction of the magnetic segments can be predetermined based on, for example, predetermined parameters of the system (e.g., a desired magnetic field strength, direction and/or uniformity of the magnetic field, a desired elimination of a magnetic fringe field and/or total weight of the system) and/or based on a desired application of the system (e.g., performing a magnetic resonance imaging of at least a portion of a patient and/or performing a magnetic resonance spectroscopy of a sample).

A system and method for perturbing a permanent magnet asymmetric field to move a body includes a rotating body configured to rotate about a rotation axis, a permanent magnet arrangement arranged on the rotating body containing two or more permanent magnets, and a perturbation element. The permanent magnet arrangement is configured such that an asymmetric magnetic field is generated by the permanent magnets about a perturbation point. Actuation of the perturbation element at or near the perturbation point causes a tangential magnetic force on the rotating body and/or the permanent magnet arrangement, thereby causing the rotating body to rotate about the rotation axis. The disclosure may also be used for linear motion of a body.

A cavity is formed in a surface of a dielectric component on the permanent magnet side. The cavity has a bottom surface extending in a direction along one main surface and a side surface extending in a thickness direction crossing the bottom surface. At least a part of the permanent magnet is disposed in the cavity. A surface of at least a part of the permanent magnet disposed in the cavity is fixed to both of the bottom surface and the side surface through an adhesive.

A permanent magnet, a rotor, a motor and a compressor are provided. A work face of the permanent magnet includes a first edge and a second edge, a head endpoint of the first edge is connected to a tail endpoint of the second edge by means of a transition edge, the transition edge is located at a side, adjacent to a center of the work face, of a line connecting the head endpoint with the tail endpoint, and the transition edge includes at least one sub-arc segment, or a combination of at least one sub-arc segment and at least one sub-straight segment.

A system and method for perturbing a permanent magnet asymmetric field to move a body includes a rotating body configured to rotate about a rotation axis, a permanent magnet arrangement arranged on the rotating body containing two or more permanent magnets, and a perturbation element. The permanent magnet arrangement is configured such that an asymmetric magnetic field is generated by the permanent magnets about a perturbation point. Actuation of the perturbation element at or near the perturbation point causes a tangential magnetic force on the rotating body and/or the permanent magnet arrangement, thereby causing the rotating body to rotate about the rotation axis. The disclosure may also be used for linear motion of a body.

An electromagnetic apparatus includes a non-magnetic body structure above a substrate. The electromagnetic apparatus further includes at least one isolation structure including a dielectric material on a portion of the body structure and a magnetic structure having two separate portions, one on each side of the isolation structure. A first magnetic structure portion is on a first sidewall of the isolation structure on an upper surface and on a first sidewall of the body structure and a second magnetic structure portion is on an opposite second sidewall of the isolation structure onto an upper surface and on to a second sidewall of the body structure. The electromagnetic apparatus further includes an electromagnet on a side opposite to the isolation structure. The electromagnet is coupled with the magnetic structure and is a source of the magnetic flux lines when energized.

A mechanical binding that is opened and closed via magnetic forces. This may allow for systems to utilize a strong mechanical lock that is activated and deactivated with simple magnetic mechanisms, allowing for a simple and compact design.

A programmable permanent magnet actuator, a magnetic field generation apparatus and a method of controlling thereof. The actuator has a first body that is a ferromagnetic material, a second body that is a single magnetized ferromagnet and a magnetic field generation device associable to the second body to generate a magnetic field in proximity with the second body. The actuator also has a controller adapted to control the magnetic field generation device to generate a controlled magnetic field. The controlled magnetic field is adapted to modify a magnetization of the second body such as to produce with the second body a required magnetic field to move one of the first or the second body with respect to one another according to a desired position or a desired torque. The desired position or the desired torque is maintained even after the application of the controlled magnetic field. The apparatus has a permanent magnet that has an intrinsic coercivity (Hci) value that is greater than 200 kA/m and a remanence (Br) value that is greater than 0.4 Tesla. The apparatus also has a magnetic field generation device associated to the permanent magnet and a controller connected to the magnetic field generation device. The controller is adapted to control the magnetic field generation device to produce a controlled magnetic field to variably modify a magnetization of the permanent magnet in order to produce a desired variable magnetic field and influence the electrically charged or magnetized material when placed in the desired variable magnetic field.