Contactless Mechanical Power Transmission Through the High-T Superconducting Pinning Effect

Mechanical power transmission (MPT) components are almost indispensable for every engineering equipment with motions. In order to satisfy some rigorous requirements, such as contamination free and zero leakage in the mixing process of biomedical solutions, a contactless MPT mode was proposed in this study based on the high-T superconducting flux pinning mechanism. It makes the stirring container with the driven part inside that can be totally isolated from the external environment. The physical principle of superconducting flux pinning effect was discussed firstly to explore a feasible structural scheme, which can completely restrain all the six degrees of freedom (DOFs) by the linkage of magnetic flux lines. Then, a measurement device was established to verify and investigate the proposed contactless MPT mode. The motion can be transferred synchronously from the superconducting driving part to the permanent magnet driven part since they are unified as an integrity through the pinned flux lines. The influence of driving speed, cooling clearance, and magnet arrangement on the transmitted torque was analyzed. The verified contactless MPT mode also has the advantages of self-stability and overload protection, which can avoid the drawbacks of traditional permanent magnetic transmission mode.