Apparatus for generating autogenic energy?

[ken_nyus]

Hi All,

I have just started to recently fall into the OU pit!

I ran across this patent:

Patent number: 6731035
Filing date: Mar 22, 2002
Issue date: May 4, 2004
Inventors: Chung-Nan Mu, Yu-Ta Tu

Apparatus for generating autogenic energy

Reading through the text for this very simple device, I think I understand how it creates an unbalance that results in motion.

This device seems simple enough to replicate, and I hope to try and replicate it.

My question to you folks is, why would this not work?

[Omega_0]

Can you please explain how it works?

The legal language in the patent ensures that no one understands it in just one reading

[Gothic]

url of pdf is helpful http://www.google.com/patents?id=nMIRAAAAEBAJ&dq=6731035

[Iosh]

If you could post the patent text it'd help lots at trying to understand how the device works!
EDIT: Oh, thank you Gothic! You got it while I was complaining.
EDIT 2: *after looking at the PDF* Damn! Will anyone believe me if I say I've been thinking about this very same setup since a couple weeks ago? I gather the bearings have to be top quality for the "old steam train"-like transmission to work.

[ken_nyus]

Thanks for posting the link Gothic, I will do so in the future.

I can't explain it in detail without refering to the drawings, and the patent text does a good job of explaining the mechanism.

I do think one diagram is labeled wrong, so don't get confused by this. I think the N/S polarity of magnet 51 (the sliding magnet) in figure 3 is backwards. In other figures it is correct.

This device seems to rely on two (or more) ideas to get around the sticky spot.

The first idea is using a flywheel to store the energy from the N-N push side of the cycle.

The second idea is a 10 degree offset of the position of the rotating magnet, creating a slight imbalance in favor of the N-N repulsion over the S-S repulsion.

It seems like you would have to input some energy to get started (spin the flywheel hard).