Claimed OU circuit of Rosemary Ainslie

[S.Roksund]

Re: Claimed OU circuit of Rosemary Ainslie

I am a Novice member in this forum, but a retired electronic engineer with some 35 years of experience. I take the chance that my posting is a little bit beside what is discussed in this tread.

In the last one and a half year or so I have done research on capturing energy from the inductive back spike from transformers. I use my own kind of circuit and use a microcomputer to control the switches. Experimentally I have several times â€" and with different duty cycles - obtained  2 - 5  times electrical energy output relative to the input.

I have read a lot in this forum and other forums - of similar circuits to the Rosemary Ainslies, and I am worried of the fact that she and Peter Kevin ASHBY has obtained a patent on a circuit which seem to operate in  similar - or quite similar ways, that many  other publizised circuits do. In my oppinion it should not be possible to get a patent on a system or circuit that have been discussed openly for such a long time.

Here is the link to the patent:
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=1999038247&IA=IE1999000005&DISPLAY=STATUS

Do any of you have comments to this.

Regards from S.Roksund - Norway.

[Groundloop]

@S.Roksund,

wrote: <obtained  2 - 5  times electrical energy output relative to the input.>

Can you post the information on how you managed to do that? If you do not want to
post the information here, please PM me and will give you my email address.

Regards,
Groundloop, Norway.

[TinselKoala]

Isn't that a patent APPLICATION, not a patent?
Has an actual patent been granted?

[S.Roksund]

To me it look like an issued patent. It is even shown that it was patented in most countries of the world. If I am wrong on this, it is the first time I see someone applying for worldwide patentents before they have got the original patent accepted. But - I am not an expert on patent laws, I just know that one can not patent something that has been discussed and shown openly. Just trying to get things right here.

SR

[S.Roksund]

To Groundloop
I will contact you.

Regards
SR