What are the most common applications of neodymium magnets?
The most common places you’ll find neodymium magnets include:
- Retail signs and counter displays.
- Trade show booths and staging structures.
- Leather purses, bags, garments and holsters.
- Custom boxes for premium products.
- Presentation folders and scrapbooks.
- Arts, crafts and jewelry.
- Wood doors and cabinets as door latches.
- Health bracelets, bandages and other medical devices.
- Window coverings and blinds.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices.
- Audio speakers.
- Vacuum cleaners and other motorized household appliances.
- Bicycle dynamos.
- Computer hard drives.
- Wind turbine generators.
- Fishing reel brakes.
- Permanent magnet motors in cordless tools.
- High-performance AC servo motors.
- Traction motors.
- Integrated starter-generators in hybrid and electric vehicles.
- Mechanically powered flashlights, which use magnets to generate electricity from a shaking motion.
- Industrial, educational, scientific and testing/quality control applications such as verifying and maintaining product purity and equipment protection and integrity.
- Linear motors used in mag-lev trains and other motorized model equipment.
- Scientific applications such as diamagnetic levitation experimentation, the study of magnetic field dynamics and superconductor levitation.
- Electro-dynamic bearings.
- Roller coaster and other thrill ride technology.
- Magnet toys.
- Electric guitar pickups.
- Miniature figures and models.