Gravity Motor Patent 7/10/08

[TinselKoala]

"We need to make sure everyone knows the design with the ultimat effiency is one where the stator magnets are electromagnet coills that are pulsed only when the "mass switch" magnets are in the proper orientation"

Now it has become an electromagnetic pulse motor!!!
I know you are having us on. This is just too much. Cut it out. Serious people are trying to get work done here.

[Sprocket]

Silly question, but don't you need a working model of an invention to be granted a patent?  This design does seem very 'general' in nature to me, so it is kind of hard to believe it hasn't already been tried and found not to work (think we'd have heard if the opposite had been the case!)...

btw, I still think AQ is the best hope for getting this wheel-type demonstrably working anytime soon.  Obviously can't speak for the man, but the 'flaw' you allude to in his design involving the top permanent magnets' 'wall' was shown in his videos to have been 'nulled' sufficiently by the use of the extension rods to be a non-event.  Also, it is more financial than technical difficulties that has delayed the building of a working wheel...

[therealrasta]

He got a Provisional Patent.. So he has 12 months to produce that.. hmm.. Makes you wonder ,eh.. Sneaky.

[Newtonian God]

He got a Provisional Patent.. So he has 12 months to produce that.. hmm.. Makes you wonder ,eh.. Sneaky.

Just to clarify what a Provisional Patent actually is:

A provisional patent application allows filing without any formal patent claims, oath or declaration, or any information disclosure (prior art) statement (1). It provides the means to establish an early effective filing date in a non-provisional patent application (2). It also allows the term "Patent Pending" to be applied.

You can read more about Provisional Patents here:
http://inventors.about.com/od/provisionalpatent/a/Provisional_Pat.htm

[mondrasek]

The patent includes the base technology: the "mass switch".  This is unique because it moves the mass (in this case the perminant magnets in the non-ferous guide tubes) from one location to another across the length of the guide tube.  The mass then stays in the relocated position without any adiditional force required.  The switch is made using a switching force (sideways repulsive force, known as the"wall" when the stators are perminant magnets) that does not increase.  Yet the output torque of the wheel due to gravity and the overbalance can be increased by increasing the number of mass switches on the wheel and/or the diameter of the wheel itself.  Therefore it is alway possible to make a wheel with enough overbalance to overcome the switching force.

This is the first gravity motor that actually works that I know of.  Isn't that unique enough?  If not, I'll be out the ~$3000US in patent attorney and filing fees due at the end of the month.

If you replace the perminant stator magnets with pulsed elctromagnets (bleeding off some power generated from the gravity driven rotational torque) you eliminate the repulsive "wall" of the simpler design that uses perminant magnet stator magnets.  This actually improves the power efficiency.

A pulsed magnetic stator made of semiconducing materials is theoretically a loss-less device.  When turned on the curent rushes into the ciol and creates a magnetic field.  Once saturated the magnetic field requires no more current.  When turned off the magnetic field collapses through the coil creating an equal amount of current to when the field was created.  This current can be reclaimed with the proper circuit design. 

Using an electro magnet to accelerate a perminant magnet up a mass switch guide tube takes no more current than if the perminant magnet was not being accelerated.  The magnetic field of the perminant magnet is what accelerates it up the guide tube when the electromagnetic stator becomes charged with an opposing magnetic field.