A very stale, half-baked idea.

[Bulbz]

I came up with an idea for a machine many years ago when I was about 25 years old.

At one point I was releuctant about letting the design to be known (paranoid I suppose). But now that I've seen a few other designs over the past months, I decided to show it.

It's actually a simulation which I programmed using BlitzBasic-3D, and the artwork is not exactly brilliant (I'm no good at art  ).

Requirements to run the simulation...
A Windows based PC with 3D graphics adapter, and Direct-X 7 or higher.

So !, without further ado...
Linkage.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephen.ancell/overunity/PM_Motor.zip


[EDIT] I forgot to mention, if the download don't work, right click on the link and select "Save Link As". [/EDIT]

Let me know what you guys think.
Cheers 

[Bulbz]

Oops !. I forgot to give a description...

The engine is to be a repulsion type setup.

The Actuators which make up the stator are mounted on spring return mechanisms. As the rotor and cam rotate, the stators ride up the leading edge of the cam.

The idea is... When each stator is reached by the trailing edge of the cam, the stator snaps back into it's starting position throwing it behind the rotor's flying magnet in the process. The repulsion of the current stator and the flying magnet then cause the rotor to turn, and in turn cause the stators to keep repeating the process over and over again.

This is all completely based on theory, and I've never got around to building a prototype hence I'm declaring it as Half-Baked.

[Low-Q]

It will not work because:

Equal poles are not just by that willingly to approach each other. The mechanism in the design will therefor not follow the spiral shaped centre piece. Where shall you take the force to push the two ecual poles, in rotor and stator, together from?

Br.

Vidar

[Bulbz]

Thankyou for your evaluation Low-Q  .

I also forgot to mention that the outer edges of the magnets are supposed to be shielded.

Anyone else got any views ?. Or better still, has anyone got some sort of mechanincal simulation software to have some fun experimentation with my crude design ?.


The whole idea of the design is... The torque at the cam might be enough to push one of the actuators outwards so that the the magnnet on the  actuator before that one, repels the magnet on the rotor. I'm not that good at explaining things, but I hope this shines a bit more light on the subject.