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Coded magnets can be created in an infinite number of patterns that can provide unique identity, much like a fingerprint or the capillary structure in the retina.  The identities can be used to create families of coded magnets that interact in a prescribed manner.  Polymagnets™ can be programmed to attach to other coded magnets, to repel, or to be non-reactive altogether.

Polymagnets comprise patterns of magnetic elements (maxels) each with an assigned polarity (north or south shown in red and blue). Patterns with variations in maxel number, size, shape and amplitude are nearly limitless. Multiply that number by variations in material grade, surface geometry, and even dipole orientation and the possible combinations reach toward infinity.

At right are a few examples of functional codes developed at the CMR labs during the initial research & development following Larry Fullerton’s discovery and invention in 2008.

Variable Parameters for Coded Magnets

Each unique combination of parameters results in a unique magnetic field. Interaction among customized magnetic fields determine the behavior of correlated magnetic device.

Shown at right are examples of the wide variety of shapes the coded magnetic fields can assume. As the number of maxels in any pattern increase, so does the complexity of magnetic field geometric features.

Unique magnetic patterns can provide strong magnetic attachment and discriminate among other coded magnets, giving rise to “assembly intelligence” where components can be mated as the designer or engineer intended and at the proper spatial orientation.

Shown at right is a notional diagram depicting table or panel components featuring coded magnet connectors. The components will mate in the proper orientation and only with the coded counterpart of the connector.

This ability to discriminate enables savings in assembly and/or installation time, as well as potential reduction in size and weight of construction material by reducing “overdesign” compensation for alignment errors in assembly and integration.

Component assembly in modular furniture, pre-fab building construction, tools, toys, tables, and more can benefit directly from correlated magnetics.

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