A Basic Study on HTSC Bulk Motor

Maglev systems and magnetic bearings using the pinning force in High TT Superconductor (HTSC) have been highlighted. From the viewpoint that the pinning force can be considered as a synchronizing force, we have started to study on a new motor using HTSC bulk. A basic experiment of propulsion and guidance operations has been carried out on the armature guideway in the water tank, by the help of a model ship consisting of a new HTSC linear synchronous motor (LSM). It is successfully confirmed that the pinning force is utilized as a synchronizing force. Favorable propulsion and guidance have been achieved without guidance control only by trajectory control of propulsion motion