EP1226374A1 - Moteur rotatif a inertie - Google Patents

Moteur rotatif a inertie

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EP1226374A1
EP1226374A1 EP99974149A EP99974149A EP1226374A1 EP 1226374 A1 EP1226374 A1 EP 1226374A1 EP 99974149 A EP99974149 A EP 99974149A EP 99974149 A EP99974149 A EP 99974149A EP 1226374 A1 EP1226374 A1 EP 1226374A1
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motion
vehicle
weights
axis
armature
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Paul T. Baskis
F. David Mullinix
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02N—ELECTRIC MACHINES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H02N2/00—Electric machines in general using piezoelectric effect, electrostriction or magnetostriction
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E60/00—Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
    • Y02E60/16—Mechanical energy storage, e.g. flywheels or pressurised fluids

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  • This invention relates to inertial motors for providing locomotion to a vehicle by the organized motion of structures internal to the vehicle.
  • it relates to motors that convert the kinetic energy of circular motion into the kinetic energy of linear motion.
  • a drive shaft that, through a transmission, engages wheels having frictional contact with a road surface.
  • the energy source that powers the vehicle thus provides a force that bears upon the road surface and causes the road surface to react with a frictional force that accelerates the vehicle.
  • a jet or rocket motor utilizes an energy source to expel a fluid at high momentum in one direction.
  • the jet or rocket powered vehicle reacts to the loss of momentum by gaining momentum in the opposite direction or using the momentum transfer to overcome frictional forces.
  • Propeller driven vehicles combine both techniques by using a drive shaft to rotate a propeller that imparts momentum to an external fluid. In reaction, the vehicle moves in the direction opposite to the direction of motion of the fluid.
  • Inertial motors derive an instantaneous motion by the internal transfer of momentum among the components of the vehicle. As momentum is imparted to an internal component the remainder of the vehicle reacts by gaining momentum in the opposite direction.
  • U.S. patent 5,685,196 has provided for a linear system in which a mass is accelerated opposite to the direction of motion of the vehicle, imparting momentum to move the vehicle forward. The vehicle is then temporarily anchored to the ground while the mass is returned to its initial position. The anchoring to the ground prevents the vehicle from simply oscillating and returning to its initial position. The result is a jerky motion of the vehicle forward.
  • Fig. 1C of the ' 196 patent an electromagnetic version is proposed.
  • FIGS 5 A and 5B of the ' 196 patent show a rotary adaptation.
  • weights 50 are advanced by actuators and springs or by grooved cylinders 90 mounted on a disk 91.
  • the weights 50 are centrally pivoted, by which it is understood that the center of gravity of the weight is moved tangentially but not radially.
  • the present invention overcomes the limitations of prior inertial motors by utilizing a more smoothly coordinated circular motion and converting the motion of circulating weights into a unidirectional series of impulses that drive the vehicle forward.
  • a rachet mechanism to prevent the regression of the vehicle. Because of the generally circular motion of the driving weights it is possible to average out the impulses and move the vehicle forward.
  • the inertial motor comprises a power source to maintain an armature in a state of rotation at an approximately uniform angular velocity.
  • Weights are located on the armature and are guided on tracks that limit their motion to radial paths from center of the armature.
  • the position of the weights along their respective radial tracks is controlled electromagnetically by solenoids powered from generator coils, which are energized by a stationary field similar to a present day self exciting generator.
  • the solenoids are energized and de-energized at stations along their circular route. This is coordinated in such a manner as to transfer the maximum linear momentum to the axis of the armature.
  • An arbitrarily large number of weights may be organized in this manner. In one embodiment used for illustrative purposes four weights are implemented.
  • a ratchet is connected to the wheels of the vehicle that allows it to move in only one linear direction.
  • the "ratchet” could be provided by a subsidiary jet or prop engine for a plane or a rocket for a space vehicle.
  • the subsidiary motion restraining component will be referred to as a ratchet.
  • the inventor believes that this ratchet is not an essential component of the invention and that an embodiment lacking the ratchet would be preferred, but, as he has not yet constructed such an embodiment he takes the conservative position that the absence of the ratchet is not an essential feature for the practice of the invention.
  • Figure 2 is a plan view of the rotor and stator components of the present invention.
  • Figure 3 depicts the location of the solenoid plungers with respect to the rotor and stator.
  • Figure 4 is a partial view of a solenoid with its plunger in an extended position.
  • Figure 5 is a partial view of a solenoid with its plunger in an retracted position.
  • Figure 6 is a schematic representation of the rotor with the positions of one plunger depicted.
  • the Inertial Drive Unit of the present invention utilizes the reaction of an apparatus to a longitudinal component of a radial acceleration of rotating masses internal to the apparatus.
  • the invention directs along a linear path the reaction to internal radial accelerations of masses driven in a circular motion and thereby creates a reaction force that moves the apparatus in a direction perpendicular and away from the axis of rotation of the internal constituents of the apparatus.
  • v V / ⁇ + r ⁇ ⁇
  • v the vector velocity of the mass
  • ⁇ the scalar angular velocity of the mass about
  • 6 is a unit vector orthogonal to r (or p) in the direction rotation of the mass about 0.
  • accelerations are usually referred to respectively as the radial acceleration, the centripetal acceleration, the Coriolis acceleration, and the angular acceleration.
  • inertial forces termed, respectively, the radial acceleration force, the centrifugal force, the Coriolis force, and the angular acceleration force.
  • the prior art utilized an embodiment in which both a and v were zero and relied upon ⁇ and ⁇ for its effects.
  • the present invention relies primarily upon the radial acceleration force a and the Coriolis force 2v ⁇ (i.e. the forces due to the radial motion of masses) for its effect.
  • the Inertial Drive Unit 1 in a preferred embodiment has several components. As shown in Figure 2, a stator 3 is fixed to an axle 5 about which a rotor 7 is capable of rotation. Four solenoids which are labeled C Intel C 2 , C 3 and C 4 are attached to the rotor. The stator and rotor are circular in shape, are concentric about the axle, and lie in a plane perpendicular to the centerline of the axle. The four solenoids are arranged at 90° angles from one another as seen from the axle. Different numbers of solenoids are also possible, with, in general, the solenoids being symmetrical distributed about the axis forming the comers of a regular polygon.
  • solenoids may be arranged in a pentagon, six in a hexagon, etc.
  • the solenoids each comprise plungers 9 which are moved along the axis of the solenoids in response to electrical currents through solenoid electromagnet coils j_ of the solenoid.
  • a stationary field coil assembly .13 is located on the stator 3 consisting preferably of 18 individual stator coils of the coil stationary field assembly that power the solenoid electromagnets by electromagnetic induction.
  • a computer control unit L5 is connected to each of the coils of the coil stationary field assembly 13.
  • the inertial drive unit 1 in one embodiment is connected to a vehicle 8, having wheels K) which ride on a surface 14.
  • the wheels are constrained to trun in only one direction by a ratchet J_2.
  • the Inertial Drive Unit sets the computer control system 15 so that all of the field coils JJ_ of the coil stationary field assembly are all energized and the rotor 7 is made to spin about its axis 5 by the motor 17.
  • the motor is preferably located at the center line of the axle of the stator 3, but for clarity of the figures it is shown as driving the rotor through operation of a drive belt 19 in an alternative embodiment.
  • the field coils U are energized, the generator coils 13 are producing voltage and the plungers of the solenoids (C,, C 2 , C 3 and C 4 ) will be held in the closest possible position to the axis of the rotor 5, which is drawn in as shown in Figure 2.
  • the solenoids are the only load on the generator coils.
  • any one of the field coils about the axle of the stator 3 can be de- energized.
  • the distance by which the solenoid plunger (C 2 ) moves as it is guided by the cylinder, radially outward from the axis of the rotor is measured to any point along the center line of travel of the solenoid cylinder or until the solenoid plunger reaches the furthest point possible from the axis of the rotation which is P 2 , as shown in Figure 4.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention has the following dimensions and parameter values:
  • the stator 3, which includes the axle and other necessary static components can be characterized as being approximately 80 mm in diameter, a mass of the plunger (m) equal to approximately 0.5kg; and an angular velocity ⁇ equal to 2000 rpm, i.e. 33.33 rps.
  • the rotor 7, which includes the four solenoids and other necessary components mentioned above can be approximately 160 mm in radius.
  • the mass (m) may equal to 4.55 kg.
  • the operation of the Inertial Drive Unit begins when the computer control system is set so that all of the field coils are energized and the rotor 7 starts spinning about its axis, which is located at the center line of the axle of the stator 5, by use of a conventional motor.
  • the rotor 7 is brought up to operating speed of a specific angular velocity which for this scenario is 33.33 rps.
  • the plungers of the solenoids (C,, C 2 , C 3 , and C 4 ) are held in the nearest possible position P ] to the axis of the rotor against the centrifugal force (as observed outside the inertial frame), when the electromagnets are energized.
  • any one of the field coils about the axis of the stator 3 can be de- energized, causing the generator coils to cease producing voltage at that field coil point, cutting off the current flow to the solenoid (C,) allowing the plunger of that solenoid to accelerate.
  • the magnitude of the of the centrifugal force is 7017.0 N outward from the axis of the rotor.
  • the generator coils Immediately after the generator coils pass that field coil which is associated with the solenoid (C,) and enter the magnetic field of the next field coil, the generator coils induce voltage flow/current flow into the solenoid, which being the only load are re- energized causing the plunger of the solenoid (C,) to accelerate, drawing back to the point P, against the centripetal force (as observed outside the inertial frame). As the plunger of the solenoid is drawn back to P, against the 7017.078 N of force, the center of gravity (CG) and therefore the mass of the IDU (minus the mass of the plunger) will move toward the center of mass of the plunger of the solenoid.
  • CG center of gravity
  • the timing of the energization of the field coil depends on the angular velocity of the rotor and the linear speed of the plunger, which is dependent on the centripetal force. For example, if the solenoid plunger travels 10 mm in one second and that distance is chosen to be the most effective to achieve a desired resultant force overall, then the voltage to that solenoid would be cut off one second before the time when it is necessary to re-engage the solenoid, in order to move the center of gravity with respect to the solenoid plunger.
  • the ratchet mechanism J_2 shown schematically in Figure 2 is depicted in more detail in Figure 7. It may be used to control the vehicle so that it moves in only one direction. As stated previously it is the belief of the inventor that the ratchet is not essential because the motion of the vehicle may also be controlled by the balance between the centripetal and Coriolis forces and the inertial force acting upon the whole unit. Where the inertial force predominates the center of gravity of the unit is believed to remain stationary. Otherwise, if the centripetal/Coriolis force exceeds the inertial force affecting the vehicle, then the center of gravity will be displaced (as the result of the electromagnetic force produced by the solenoid coils) in a direction opposite to the centrifugal/Coriolis force.
  • Figure 7 shows a simple ratchet mechanism that may be used to restrain the direction of motion of the vehicle chassis 21, which is attached by a bracket 23 to the ratchet.
  • the details of the attachment of the ratchet to the wheel of the mechanism is known to persons of ordinary skill.
  • a latch or dog 25 engages a gear 27 locked to the vehicle wheel axle 29 to restrain the direction of rotation of the vehicle wheel.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un moteur (17) à inertie utilisant un mouvement circulaire coordonné sans à-coups et convertissant le mouvement de masses mobiles (9) en une série unidirectionnelle d'impulsions entraînant le véhicule (8) vers l'avant. Lesdites masses (9), disposées sur un induit, sont guidées dans des gorges le long de chemins radiaux partant du centre de l'induit. La position de ces masses (9) est commandée électromagnétiquement par des solénoïdes (C1, C2, C3, C4). Les solénoïdes (C1, C2, C3, C4) sont alimentés et désalimentés en différents points (13) de leur parcours circulaire de manière à transférer la quantité de mouvement à l'axe de l'induit.
EP19990974149 1999-11-03 1999-11-03 Moteur rotatif a inertie Withdrawn EP1226374A4 (fr)

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US3968700A (en) * 1974-08-01 1976-07-13 Cuff Calvin I Device for converting rotary motion into a unidirectional linear motion
US4579011A (en) * 1984-06-11 1986-04-01 Dobos Elmer M Propulsion apparatus
DE3733366A1 (de) * 1987-04-10 1988-10-27 Hans Werner Bierganns Gewichtskraftmotor
DE4325771A1 (de) * 1993-07-31 1995-02-02 Fiedler Wilhelm Zentrifugal-Triebwerk
FR2723891A1 (fr) * 1994-08-29 1996-03-01 Badanjak Claude Dispositif de charge de batteries pour vehicule electrique
US5685196A (en) * 1996-07-16 1997-11-11 Foster, Sr.; Richard E. Inertial propulsion plus/device and engine
US5782134A (en) * 1994-12-14 1998-07-21 Booden; James D. Electromagnetically actuated thrust generator

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US3968700A (en) * 1974-08-01 1976-07-13 Cuff Calvin I Device for converting rotary motion into a unidirectional linear motion
US4579011A (en) * 1984-06-11 1986-04-01 Dobos Elmer M Propulsion apparatus
DE3733366A1 (de) * 1987-04-10 1988-10-27 Hans Werner Bierganns Gewichtskraftmotor
DE4325771A1 (de) * 1993-07-31 1995-02-02 Fiedler Wilhelm Zentrifugal-Triebwerk
FR2723891A1 (fr) * 1994-08-29 1996-03-01 Badanjak Claude Dispositif de charge de batteries pour vehicule electrique
US5782134A (en) * 1994-12-14 1998-07-21 Booden; James D. Electromagnetically actuated thrust generator
US5685196A (en) * 1996-07-16 1997-11-11 Foster, Sr.; Richard E. Inertial propulsion plus/device and engine

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CA2389720A1 (fr) 2001-05-10
KR20020074149A (ko) 2002-09-28
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