New discovery suggest that permanent magnet motors might be possible

[Low-Q]

I stumbled across this link. Interesting reading, but is it legit?
Please share your views on this.
https://www.powerelectronics.com/alternative-energy/new-discovery-could-lead-commercial-production-permanent-magnet-motors


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[Floor]

  "New discovery"

I     don't    doubt that they have a permanent magnet motor.

I do however, doubt that its basic operating methods and principles can be patented.

Probably their patents and many other patents could and will spin off of those underlying methods.

Whether or not these researchers are aware of it
              Those methods and principles can be found    open sourced    here at the OU forum.

                 floor

[telecom]

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/dd/92/2c/f6a7092faa7487/US20110198958A1.pdf

[MagnaProp]

Hi Low-Q. I don't understand what is being said in that article. If there is an attraction and repulsion force at the same time, don't they cancel each other out?

[Low-Q]

Hi Low-Q. I don't understand what is being said in that article. If there is an attraction and repulsion force at the same time, don't they cancel each other out?

I think the idea is that when they combine equatorial forces and polar forces, they can "switch" from attraction to repulsion without external energy.


Say you have two magnets in parallell. N up, S down on both, these magnets will repel eachother equatorially because both magnets have the same polarity next to them. If you move one magnet down, the horizontal repulsion forces decrease in the equatorially, and the vertical attraction force increase in the polar plane because N of the moved magnet is approaching S on the other magnet. Until a point where the equatorial repulsion is the same as the polar attraction force. At this point you can separate or approach the magnets without input energy. At this position, the switching takes place.
See the figures how the magnets are positioned.


They claim that these two forces can work together when the magnets are positioned in a given way. I do, however, have my doubt about the practical experiment, and question how they can manage to make this work as a free energy device. It's not a question about the engineering part, but the actual outcome that is based on the desired function.


I have myself spent many, many hours, actually years, figuring out how and why mangnets do what they do. Countless designs that has proven non-workable devices. Tried this, tried that untill the brain overloads.


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