Floating Joint System

The Floating Joint System is a type of Mobile Gear joint array used for GUNSYS's Mobile weapons. They are featured in Mobile Gear Gundam Blues.

Description & Characteristics
Traditional Mobile Gears use hydraulic cylinders in order to have the necessary strength to move their jointed appendages unidirectionally, along with rotary devices for needed 360 degree motion. These necessary parts have a habit of breaking down easily, as a mobile gear's rough movement and potential combat role leads to the joint parts being constantly under pressure either due to the high speeds of the unit or attacks which inflict force onto the unit. Because the hydraulics not having enough flexibility to endure the forces or at least effectively disperse them, they are under threat of snapping, rendering the joint part inoperable.

The Floating Joint System serves as a permanent upgrade from this state. Rather than the joint parts being brought physically together, one side is made to instead trap the other connecting part within a strong field of electromagnetic force. The inlet part, consisting of two walls, has installed in its interior two rotary discs surrounding a single magnetic projector in their centers. The outlet part, which is only a single cylinder rig with a wide ring as its top, is made of a material that can be magnetically pushed and pulled.

When brought together, the inlet's projectors create a stabilizing point which keeps the outlet ring from moving too far out of place, with the two discs acting as secondary magnetic points. On the sides of the ring and on the outer sides of the discs are several diagonal magnetic plates which create an opposing force between the sides of the discs and the ring they're facing. This makes a stable joint, but on its own the parts won't rotate without force being applied towards one direction or the other.

The term Floating Joint System is used to refer to the program which governs this, as well as the joint configuration itself. By changing the polarity of the plates, the joint is made to move via magnetic force, with enough nuance with the number of magnetic plates allowing for smooth movement across the entire range of the joint. The system keeps the necessary magnetic force from fluctuating beyond or below its needed power, while also keeping the overall energy needed from being a burden on the power plant it is attached to.

There exist variants of the Floating Joint type, used for different types of needed movable components that require a level of range and movement separate from what the inlet-outlet parts, known as A-Type, provide. B-Type consists of just the two discs attached to the surface of two different objects, with an anchoring center part which physically tie the two components together while the rings handle 360 degree rotation via the magnetic forces of their opposing plates. C-Type articulates the discs on the A-Type, adding side-to-side motion along with the unidirectional provided by default. D-Type intertwines a pair large and small ring magnetic joints perpendicular to each other to allow for 360 degree range on the horizontal ring and around 180 degree range on the vertical ring on either end. E-Type attaches four magnetic rings together and uses the strength of the magnetic force to both rotate them and angle them off, as far as 45 degrees each just on the push/pull of their plates.

Components & Features

 * Magnetic Plate Array
 * Rotary Ring
 * Platform Disc
 * Magnetic Projector
 * Balancer System

Variants

 * A-Type
 * B-Type
 * C-Type
 * D-Type
 * E-Type