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.