BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
a) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to energy source systems, each system comprising of rotating magnets and swinging targets configured to convert one-way linear energy into rotary energy as the rotating magnets shuttle between their respective swinging targets in said one-way linear direction.
b) The Prior Art
In the past and at the present the only energy sources for everyday applications have been external energy sources which are unreliable because of their dependency on external conditions.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An embodiment of the present invention could include one spindle, one flywheel, one target that swings over the spindle, one target that swings under the spindle and one rotating magnet that drives the spindle, the flywheel and the swinging targets by shuttling between the swinging targets.
One of the objects of the invention is to provide an apparatus with energy form within it that could be converted to other energy forms and is independent of external conditions.
Another one of the objects of the invention is to provide energy source systems and methods for various tasks and applications, anywhere, whether on a planet or in space.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention will be more readily understood by reference to the following description, taken with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one version of embodiment of the invention. FIG. 1 shows a spindle held by a frame, a flywheel, a magnet with its mass and its counterbalance weight and two targets with their respective pendulum weights. The magnet and its mass are seen as being blocked by an inner blocker to keep the magnet at a predetermined minimum distance from the over the spindle swinging target which is seen after having trapped the magnet with its trapdoor and trigger. The magnet is seen after having rotated and reached its highest point while driving the over the spindle swinging target and both are seen about to descend to the back. Also seen are the over the spindle swinging springy hammer, the under the spindle swinging springy anvil and the under the spindle swinging target.
FIG. 2 is the perspective view showing the same embodiment as shown in FIG. 1, but after the rotating magnet descended to the back and driving the over the spindle swinging target and after the rotating magnet has been trapped by the ascending under the spindle swinging target with its trapdoor and trigger and the swinging targets change their swings direction and after the rotating magnet shuttled toward the under the spindle swinging target which is seen blocked by the outer blocker to keep the rotating magnet at the predetermined minimum distance from the under the spindle swinging target. The rotating magnet and the under the spindle swinging target are seen about to assent to the front from their lowest point.
FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the invention that combines the two embodiments in the two positions of the rotating magnets as shown in FIG. 1 and in FIG. 2 on a single spindle. The flywheel is seen fixed to the spindle between said two embodiments. The counterbalance weight to each of the rotating magnet has been eliminated because the two rotating magnets are positioned opposite to each other and so balance each other.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT EMBODIMENT
Parts of the embodiment and their designated numbers in the drawings are:
5—Frame; 6—Anvil; 7—Flywheel; 8—Magnet; 9—Hammer; 10—Spindle; 11—Pendulum weight with the anvil; 12—Target swinging over the spindle; 13—Target swinging under the spindle; 14—Trapdoor for target 12; 15—Trapdoor for target 13; 16—Trigger for trapdoor 14; 17—Trigger for trapdoor 15; 18—Counterbalance weight; 19—Blockers; 20—Pendulum weight with the hammer.
The invention may be implemented in a wide range of embodiments.
Referring to FIG. 1, thereof, the embodiment includes the rotating magnet 8 with its mass on one end of an arm and counterbalance weight 18 on the other end of said arm, which is fixed to the spindle 10. The spindle 10 is held by the frame 5 and the flywheel 7 is fixed to the spindle 10. The rotating magnet 8 and its mass are being blocked by the inner blocker 19 after the rotating magnet 8 shuttled with its mass inward toward spindle 10 along said arm. The over the spindle swinging target 12 had trapped the rotating magnet 8 with the trapdoor 14 and trigger 16 and was driven by the rotating magnet 8 to the highest point in the rotation path of the rotating magnet 8. The rotating magnet 8 is about to rotate to the back with the over the spindle swinging target 12. The under the spindle swinging target 13 is seen about to continue its swing to the back while its corresponding over the spindle swinging springy hammer 9 is about to continue its swing to the front. As soon as the rotating magnet 8 and the over the spindle swinging target 12 encounter the under the spindle swinging target 13 at 270 degrees mark, or at the western zone, in the back, the rotating magnet 8 would be positioned between the two swinging targets. At that instant the over the spindle swinging springy hammer 9 of pendulum weight 20 would pound on the under the spindle swinging springy anvil 6 of pendulum weight 11 at the 90 degrees mark, or at the eastern zone, in the front. Said pounding would bring about swifter change in the swings direction of the swinging targets, which effectively would prevent the swinging targets from pausing during their swings change and would equalize the forces impacted on the pendulum weights so that they could maintain their swing heights. The over the spindle swinging target 12 would at that instant departs from the rotating magnet 8 and would swing upward after the under the spindle swinging target 13 had trapped the rotating magnet 8 with the trapdoor 15 and the trigger 17 until the rotating magnet 8 had shuttled with its mass toward the under the spindle swinging target 13 and blocked by blocker 19 and both continue downward to their lowest point as is shown in FIG. 2. At the 90 degrees mark, or at the eastern zone, in the front, the rotating magnet 8 and the under the spindle swinging target 13 encountered the over the spindle swinging target 12, and again the rotating magnet 8 is positioned between the two swinging targets. At that exact instant, the over the spindle swinging springy hammer 9 pounds on the under the spindle swinging springy anvil 6, but this time at the 270 degrees mark, or at the western zone, in the back. The over the spindle swinging target 12, at said instance, traps the rotating magnet 8 with the trapdoor 14 and the trigger 16 until the rotating magnet 8 shuttled with its mass toward the over the spindle swinging target 12 and is blocked by blocker 19. The rotating magnet 8 continues its steady rotation driving the over the spindle swinging target 12 upward to their highest point as shown in FIG. 1 and downward to the back to encounter the ascending under the spindle swinging target 13. In FIG. 1 the balance is seen tipped from the rotating magnet 8 toward its counterbalance weight 18 and together with conserving its angular momentum by shuttling with its mass toward its axis of rotation the rotating magnet 8 accelerates to offset deceleration.
FIG. 2 shows the rotating magnet 8 after having been trapped by the under the spindle swinging target 13 with the trapdoor 15 and the trigger 17. The rotating magnet 8 and the under the spindle swinging target 13 are seen about to ascend to the front from their lowest point. The rotating magnet 8 is seen being blocked by the outer blocker 19 when the rotating magnet 8 shuttled with its mass outward toward the under the spindle swinging target 13. In FIG. 2 the balance had been tipped away from the counterbalance weight 18 toward the descending magnet 8 in the back, which would have produced more acceleration in the rotation of magnet 8 that offsets deceleration of said rotation.
FIG. 3 shows the combination of the two system units as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. The rotating magnets 8 are seen opposite to each other on the single spindle 10. Since the rotating magnets 8 are positioned opposite to each other the counterbalance weights 18 are eliminated. The combination in such a set of two units, or even with another set at 90 degrees angle to the first set, made it possible to build a system with greater and greater capacity even with smaller and less powerful magnets. In such higher capacity system the flywheel 7, the over the spindle swinging springy hammer 9 and the under the spindle swinging springy anvil 6 are configured to make sure the motions of the magnets and the targets are kept steady, even with the unutilized potential energy in the system. This available and unused potential energy could be stored in another high speed flywheel connected to the system through various means, such as ratchet gear and other gears, for example, or be extracted as output energy directly to a specific application.
In FIG. 3, when one rotating magnet 8 is at the front the other rotating magnet 8 is at the back and both rotating magnets shuttle in one-way linear direction at the same time so that the balance is always tipped toward the back rotating magnet 8 that descends. Since each rotating magnet 8 falls downward with target 13 and with pendulum weight 20 after shortening the arm of the rotating magnet 8 opposite to pendulum weight 20, it energizes pendulum weight 20 to reach its original swinging height and potentially even higher. The hammering by the over the spindle swinging springy Hammers 9 on the under the spindle swinging springy anvils 6 spreads its impact equally among the swinging pendulum weights and they maintain their steady swings and the heights of their swings.
At the 90 degrees zone in the front and at the 270 degrees zone in the back each rotating magnet 8 would be positioned between their respective two swinging targets, but without making contact due to the blockers 19. These gaps between each rotating magnet 8 and its respective swinging targets and together with the inertia of flywheel 7 and the hammering by the over the spindle swinging springy hammers 9 upon the under the spindle swinging springy anvils 6 are configured to bring about swifter swings direction change by the swinging targets and steady rotation by the rotating magnets 8 as said rotating magnets shuttle in a linear one-way direction.
An embodiment of the present invention could include one rotating magnet and two swinging magnets, or two swinging magnets and one rotating mass-unit that could be shuttled by the magnetic field of each of the swinging magnets.
The trapdoors could return to their trapping positions by the pull of gravity alone or by additional or other means after being opened by their respective triggers.
An embodiment of the present invention, as an example, that includes one rotating magnet and two swinging targets as shown in FIG. 2 could be made to run, for example, by hanging each pendulum weight on a string. The strings should be tied loosely to the pendulum weights so that they would release the pendulum weights when under a predetermined strain. By simply lifting pendulum weight 11 by its string to the 270 degrees mark and lifting pendulum weight 20 by its string to the 90 degrees mark, at the same time, with a force that is a little more than the force of said swinging pendulum when they swing on their own, the rotating magnet, which is with pendulum 20, should be between the two swinging targets at the 90 degrees mark, the hammer should be pounding on the anvil at the 270 degrees mark, the rotating magnet should be trapped by the swinging target 12 and the system should continue to run on its own as soon as the rotating magnet had shuttled towards its axis of rotation.
The applications for the present invention are vast. Its embodiments and methods could be used inside electric vehicles to charge their batteries and could even be deployed in space travels inside revolving chambers to provide the necessary artificial pull that resembles the pull of gravity.
While the present invention has been described with reference to the mechanism disclosed herein, it is not confined to the details as set forth and is not intended in any way to limit the broad features or principles of the present invention, or the scope of patent monopoly to be granted. The applications are intended to cover any modification or changes that may come within the scope of the following claims.
Patent Application
20120200090
