Abstract: In a spinning apparatus including a rotatable spindle carrying a package for receiving a yarn from a yarn guide which is arranged in axial alignment with the spindle, a tubular element surrounds the package and the spindle and is floatingly supported by magnetic bearings and a second yarn guide is arranged so to be rotatable within the tubular element and receives the yarn for guiding it onto the package with a winding speed corresponding to the rotational speed difference between the spindle and the tubular element and sensors are arranged adjacent the tubular element for sensing any axial deviation of the tubular element from its desired position which axial deviation is taken as a measure for the yarn tension forces.

Abstract: A crystalline bar is drawn by a zone-melting process or from a melt in a crucible utilizing a magnetic suspension housing, in addition to an axial stabilization magnet, a radial stabilizer surrounding the core and including sensors for the radial position of the core-operating controllers for electromagnets surrounding the core to restore the core to its setpoint position. The fully magnetic suspension of the core eliminates friction while allowing enclosure of the crystal growth compartment to improve the quality of the crystal growth process.

Abstract: A complex relative movement in a direction transverse to the crystal draw direction is imparted at the interface between the growing crystal bar and a melt of the crystallizable material by controlled electrical energization of a radial stabilizer acting upon the magnetizable core by which either the bar or the crucible or a supply bar for the material, or both, can be suspended.

Abstract: A complex relative movement in a direction transverse to the crystal draw direction is imparted at the interface between the growing crystal bar and a melt of the crystallizable material by controlled electrical energization of a radial stabilizer acting upon the magnetizable core by which either the bar or the crucible or a supply bar for the material, or both, can be suspended.

Abstract: A magnetic suspension system, especially for a rotor, comprises a stator having two axially spaced permanent magnets which are poled the same as a pair of spaced-apart permanent magnets on the rotor so that a repulsion field suspends the rotor within the stator. A magnetic coil surrounds the rotor and is disposed between the pole pieces of the stator substantially bridging the gap between them and the permanent magnets of the stator and the rotor repel each other in the axial direction. A contactless field sensor responds to the axial position of the rotor and controls the energization of the magnetic coil to stabilize the axial position of the rotor by augmenting or decreasing the net axial forces generated by the magnetic fields in the axial direction.

Abstract: Tubular electromagnetic components are mounted on the drive shaft of the ary anode of an X-ray tube and external magnet windings are provided both for maintaining the drive shaft in an axial position corresponding to a working position of the anode and for shifting the drive shaft to open a slip contact at one end thereof, thus providing a magnetic switch for the anode supply voltage. In addition, windings are provided through which a controlled current flows to provide a radially stabilized position for the shaft and thus constitute magnetic bearings that are free of friction. When one of the contacts of the magnetic switch is spring-mounted, the coil that does the switching can also be used to adjust the axial position of the anode so as to work with a different cathode.

Abstract: A contactless magnetic bearing system comprises a passive axial bearing element which serves to exert axial stabilizing forces on the rotor and at the same time exerts radial destablizing forces thereon, a controlled or active radial bearing element for counteracting these radial destabilizing forces and a passive radial bearing element which supports and journals the rotor at a position axially spaced from the two first-mentioned bearing elements. The axial destabilizing forces produced by the passive radial bearing are counteracted by the much stronger axial forces exerted by the passive axial bearing element.

Abstract: A contactless magnetic bearing between two members, not necessarily relatively rotatable, comprises at least one magnet on one member cooperating with two ferromagnetic parts on the other member to exert a stabilizing effect in the direction of one degree of freedom due to oppositely directed mgnetic fluxes in the two parts parallel to the direction of the degree of freedom. The destabilizing effect in a direction transverse to the direction of the one degree of freedom can be countered by a lateral bearing, preferably an active bearing whose coil is arranged in the magnetic field of the magnet or magnets.