Gravity Motor Patent 7/10/08

[mondrasek]

By stator the patent means not moving relative to the rotor (wheel 50).  Yes the drawing does not show a support structure, but the stator magnets are not rotating.

The latches I made were from brass strips super-glued (CA'd) to an aluminum tube.  Both came from a hobby shop.

Thanks for finally chiming in guys!

M.

[mondrasek]

Definitely a low speed design.  Torque scaling is by either increasing the wheel size or by putting multiple wheels on a common shaft or gearing them together.  It is completely scaleable.

M.

PS.  Thought this board was only full of nay-sayers up until now!

[therealrasta]

By stator the patent means not moving relative to the rotor (wheel 50).  Yes the drawing does not show a support structure, but the stator magnets are not rotating.

The latches I made were from brass strips super-glued (CA'd) to an aluminum tube.  Both came from a hobby shop.

Thansk for finally chiming in guys!

M.

Just flexible brass strips? I see this running well at Low RPMs.. But I see it having some issues of centrifugal forces at high rpms.. Nice job so far.. Hopefully you or someone else will try to make a working model of this.

--edit your were writing your last post while I was writing this one..

[TinselKoala]

I have been working with magnet motors for many years and while I admire your efforts at making the patent application, I honestly cannot see how your design is any different from the very basic magnet-assisted gravity wheel, which is an idea that has been around for a long time.
I'm not trying to be a nay-sayer, I am only saying that your design isn't so new.
In fact, a colleague of mine showed me one very like it, sometime before the year 2000.

Of course you have found a way to overcome frictional losses when the magnets are sliding in their tubes.

I should also say, get some sleep, man. Calm down. People have been working on this for literally hundreds of years, a few hours isn't going to make or break it. Get some sleep.

[therealrasta]

Hmm.. the more I look at it the more I like it.. Perhaps you can use magnetic and centrifugal force to control the latching to be used at high rpms?