WO2012008863A2

WO2012008863A2 - Magnetic engine

Info

Publication number: WO2012008863A2
Application number: PCT/PL2011/000076
Authority: WO
Inventors: Marek CZERWIŃSKI
Original assignee: "Em" Spółka Z O.O., Spółka Komandytowa
Priority date: 2010-07-15
Filing date: 2011-07-15
Publication date: 2012-01-19

Description

Magnetic engine

The subject of the invention is an engine containing a fixed stator frame and a movable rotor, the movable rotor having been connected with the aid of power transmission elements with an actuator, which transfers the drive to the load. The subject of the invention belongs to the machinery where a movable rotor makes a rotary motion inside a fixed stator frame.

A number of designs of machinery of the nature of engines are known, where the machine stator frame and the rotor have a specific polar magnetic characteristic, owing to which a force appears on the actuator connected to the movable element, which is capable of doing work of specific kind.

In a solution known from a Polish invention specification No. P 347415 the magnetic engine has a stator which is a permanent magnet of a shape resembling a section of ring. The rotor has a core and a cylindrical outer enclosure.

Distributed between them are guides with slidable permanent magnets mounted on them. The core, outer enclosure and guides are made of a ferromagnetically neutral material.

In another solution, known from a patent specification No. JP20044336980 for a Japanese invention, the engine

presented there has permanent magnets, each of them made as a semicircular shape with the N and S poles annularly distributed on the upper surface of a rotatable plate. The centre of the N pole and the centre of the S pole of the permanent magnets are positioned one above the other in the vertical direction. When magnets with the N pole approach each other and magnets with the S pole also approach each other, they repel and interact. The rotatable plate begins to rotate when the permanent magnets move each to the right or to the left and produce magnetic fields, thus repeating the repelling and attracting. A system of pawls was proposed for protection against a reverse motion.

Another type of a magnetic engine has been presented in a solution known from an international application

No. WO 2009/030144. According to that design the magnetic motor contains a fixed first permanent magnet and a movable second permanent magnet. The fixed first permanent magnet and the movable second permanent magnet, respectively, contain a considerable number of permanent magnets in the form of strips arranged into a honey comb. The magnetic field directions of the multiplicity of small magnets fixed in permanent magnet are identical. The direction of the magnetic field of the first permanent magnet is however opposite to the direction of the magnetic field of the movable second permanent magnet. The first permanent magnet is mounted on the fastening surface, which is a part of the device enclosure. The second permanent magnet is slidably stabilized in a groove and contains a guiding axle. A slidable plate in the form of a disk is placed between the fixed first permanent magnet and the movable second permanent magnet.

Another solution of a magnetic engine has been presented in a patent specification according to an international

application No. WO 03/052918. The magnetic engine disclosed in that known solution contains a first permanent magnet and a second component, which may also have the form of a permanent magnet or an element made of magnetically active material. The output of the engine is provided with an output external rotary mechanism. A number of specified means in the form of round disks foreseen for moving within and outside of the magnet region, moved by the magnetic flux produced by the magnet outside of a second component for changing the magnetic field or pushing that second component along the first

permanent magnet in order to produce a network of input forces, which may be sent to the motor output. Also in this known solution various configurations conforming to the above specified principle have been disclosed, as well as a

crankshaft system for increasing the capacity of the motor according to the invention.

In another solution known from a Japanese patent

specification JP 11243681 another type of an engine making use of the magnetic forces for generation of the rotational energy has been presented. The motor according to that known solution contains a rotor with a first and second rotator, coaxial with the rotor axle mounted in a bearing. The stator comprises a multiplicity of fixed magnets for conversion of the magnetic flux between the rotators, which are placed in the axis of each rotator. In each rotator a number of magnets are placed with their polarity parallel to the axis rotation and also positioned identically in the same direction of the rotational movement. An apparently fixed component made of non-magnetic conductor characterized by an increased conductivity is connected at the rotary axis joint outside of the zone of magnetic force action. Similarly, the poles of the rotators are distributed one opposite to the other at specific angular distances. To initiate a rotational motion the energy of the magnetic field may be changed into the rotational energy.

Still another solution for an engine fed with the magnetic energy has been presented in a patent specification No. US 2002/0047411. According to that known solution the crankshaft of the engine rests in bearings mounted in bearing sockets of the frame. The upper end of the connecting-rod is connected to a crank, while the lower end of the connecting-rod is

connected to a slidable magnetic cylinder. That slidable cylinder moves inside a motor frame cylinder. The slidable cylinder moves up and down inside the cylinder opening. The magnetic block of the stator is slidably stabilized inside the magnetic cylinder, on a guide, with the aid of a slidable assembly in which a longitudinal opening is made. The magnetic block of the frame operates in conjunction with a

reciprocating cylinder, which transfers the drive force by means of the crankshaft system to the drive shaft. The drive force of the motor according to the invention occurs between two groups of magnetic blocks operating together, two pairs of other magnetic blocks mounted circumferentially around the connecting-rod pin, or around two connecting-rod pins, and causing asynchronous motions that produce a dynamic system which stores the energy in a specific time interval. The magnetic energy stored in the system is available all the time and new energy may be fed to the system in two ways. One way is to continuously change magnetization of magnetic packages that store the magnetic energy, the other way consist in moving successive magnetic packages relative to each other.

The common feature of the majority of magnetic engine solutions known from the state of technology is the rotational motion of magnets or magnet packages, where some magnet packages are mounted in the ro or of the device, while other magnet packages are mounted in the stator of the device. The magnetic field energy aids the rotational motion of the rotor, and the magnet packages of the stator are distributed along the rotor circumference.

The subject of the invention has been presented in the enclosed claims.

According to the invention the magnetic engine comprises a frame with an output element in the form of a drive shaft. The output drive shaft is connected to at least one drive

assembly, which assembly consists of a fixed stator and a movable rotatable rotor. The rotor of the engine is mounted with the aid of arms on said drive shaft.

According to the invention the engine is characterized by having the fixed stator and the movable rotor in the form of rows of permanent magnet packages in the form of rows of modules mounted on the stator plate and rotor plate. Each package of permanent magnets has the form a stator module or rotor module. The stator modules are fastened on a circle perimeter to the stator plate, while the rotor modules are fastened on a circle perimeter to the rotor plate. A single repeatable stator module has the form of a semi-closed body containing a through channel for a rotor module mounted on the rotor plate.

In a solution according to the invention one stator plate of the motor contains in an advantageous version 10 modules on the stator perimeter, while one plate of the rotor has on its perimeter 9 rotor modules. In the course of rotation of the rotor plate mounted on the motor shaft successive spindle-like modules of the rotor pass through successive through channels in the fixed modules of the stator. The statement that the stator modules are mounted on the perimeter of the stator plate should be understood as meaning that they are mounted o the stator plate along a line which makes a circle symmetrica with respect to the main axis of the rotor shaft. As the stator modules are mounted in a circle also the rotor modules are mounted on the rotor plate along a line making a circle. The rotor modules may freely make the rotational motion along with the rotor plate rotation. According to the invention the stator modules and the rotor modules are uniformly distribute on the circle perimeter, that is the angular spacing of the stator modules is identical as is the angular spacing of the rotor modules.

According to the invention the magnetic engine comprises a fixed stator which has a modular construction and is set up of the stator modules mounted in series adjacent to each other on the stator plate along a circle. A stator module of the induction device has the form of at least one semi-closed body of diamagnetic material. A single stator module may comprise one, two, three or more bodies joined together into one assembly. In the advantageous solution a single module of the stator comprises two bodies.

A single stator module has an inner free space, around which permanent magnets, fastened to that body, are

symmetrically distributed. The remaining stator modules have in principle similar construction, where permanent magnets are positioned around the inner free space.

According to the invention the stator module is

characterized in that inside the body in the free space radial projections are formed which point towards the symmetry axis of that free space. In the outermost edges of those radial projections through pockets are formed, parallel to the central symmetry axis of that free space of the stator module, in which the main permanent magnets are mounted.

The inner free space of the stator module body has in the advantageous solution according to the invention the form of cylinder .

It is foreseen in the solution according to the invention that within each radial projection, on both body surfaces perpendicular to the symmetry axis of said inner space, additional pockets are formed in which additional permanent magnets are mounted.

Each main permanent magnet placed in a pocket, together with two adjacent additional permanent magnets placed in additional pockets of said stator module, make one magnetic unit .

In each magnetic unit the longer outer edges of the additional permanent magnets make a right angle with the longer outer edges of the main permanent magnet. In a solution according to the invention the main magnets and the additional magnets have advantageously a form of strips, where the magnetic poles are situated at the longer edges of those strips .

In turn, the shorter outer edges of the additional magnets and the shorter outer edges of the main permanent magnet in each magnetic unit are beveled at an angle of 45°. They touch at each side of the main permanent magnet, to form an angle of 90°. Thus, each set of three magnets, that is one main magnet and two additional magnets forms a unit resembling the C character . In an advantageous version of the invention said additional pockets of the additional magnets are openable . To this end each of the additional pockets, where the additional permanent magnets are mounted, has an upper cover with an internal semi- pocket. An additional permanent magnet is placed in that semi- pocket and the upper cover is fastened to the stator module body with the aid of at least one fastening piece. Said upper cover of the additional pocket constitutes a kind of holder for the additional magnet.

According to the invention the magnetic engine comprises at least one fixed stator and at least one movable rotatable rotor. A single rotor has a modular construction and is set from modules fastened adjacent to each other in series on the perimeter of a circle on a rotatable plate mounted on the main drive axle of the motor.

According to the invention the module of the magnetic motor rotor is composed of a set of disks of non-magnetic material mounted on a common core. Longitudinal permanent magnets are mounted in windows of the disks. The rotor module according to the invention is a spindle-shaped satellite component

containing a set of disks which fix the position of the set of permanent magnets. On the rotor perimeter there are a number of similar satellite components in the form of rotor modules mounted on the rotor plate.

In a single rotor module the ends of the non-magnetic material core are provided with catches which link the module core with the cores of the successive modules of the rotor. All the rotor modules linked to each other make a closed circle. The linking catches also comprise guiding holders for fastening the radial arms of the rotor plate, to which the rotor modules, connected together, are fastened.

The rotor module core in an advantageous version has the form of an axle with a polygonal cross section made of magnetically neutral material. Along the core there is a series of circumferential channels which fix the positions of the disks and divide this disk set into respective disk packages. Each disk of the disk set has a hole with the cross section whose shape corresponds to the shape of the core on which the disk is mounted. The polygonal form of the core and the circumferential channels on it stabilize the positions of the respective disk packages on the core. The rotor module core contains n circumferential channels which divide the whole set of disks into n+1 packages. In an advantageous version of the invention the rotor module core has seven circumferential channels, which divide the set of disks into eight packages.

A rotor module core comprises at one end a single linking catch, while at the other end it has a double linking catch, where the spacing, in the form of a gap, between the arms of the double linking catch corresponds to the width of the single linking catch. Owing to that solution all the spindle- shaped modules of the rotor may be linked in series one after another into a circle. The catches at both ends of a rotor module core have also sockets for fastening a radial arm of the rotor plate and are equipped with an assembly for

adjustment of that rotor arm length. That solution makes it possible to fasten the spindle-shaped rotor modules, linked into full circle, to the arms of the rotor plate mounted on the magnetic engine main shaft. A single disk of the rotor module is an openwork piece wit radial projections, where inside of these projections there are first windows for permanent magnet fastening. The

permanent magnets are inserted into these first windows of adjacent disks of a set of disks and fixed that way in them.

The height of said first fixing windows corresponds to the thickness of the permanent magnets, while the length of the first fixing windows corresponds to a multiple of the

permanent magnet width. Thus, several permanent magnets may be put and fixed parallel to each other in adjacent windows of adjacent disks.

Between the first fixing windows, near the symmetry axis o the disk in the rotor module, second fixing windows for permanent magnets are placed. Thus, between said radial projections of the disk, near its symmetry axis, there are the second fixing windows for additional permanent magnets.

In an advantageous version of the invention a disk may contain n first fixing windows and n-2 second fixing windows. Thus, between two pairs from among many pairs of fixing windows there are no second fixing windows in the disk

projections. This makes possible symmetrizing the magnetic field form within the arm that fastens the rotor module to the rotor rotation axle.

According to the invention it is foreseen that the

permanent magnets have the form of strips, in which the magnetic poles are situated at the longer edges of these strips. Such a configuration is advantageous for placing the set of magnets in the windows of said disks mounted on the core of a rotor single module.

According to the invention, in the magnetic engine at leas two stator plates together with two rotor plates are mounted on one shaft of the motor, with the stator modules in adjacent stator plates mounted on the common shaft are angularly

shifted with respect to each other. This means that in at least two adjacent fixed stator plates, mounted one above the other, positions of the stator modules do not coincide in the vertical direction, the adjacent fixed stator modules having been fastened with respect to each other in such a way that the stator modules of one plate are shifted along a circle with respect to the stator modules of the adjacent plate by a certain angle.

In the magnetic engine according to the invention four fixed stator plates together with four rotatable rotor plates are mounted advantageously on one common symmetry axis of the motor. The stator modules on the respective stator plates are mounted in circles conforming to the rotation axis of the rotor plates, one stator module from the other stator module at equal angular distances. In a solution according to the invention the angular spacing of the respective stator modules on one stator plate is equal to 36°. This means that 10 stator modules are mounted on the perimeter of each of the four stator plates.

In a solution according to the invention at least two rotor plates are mounted on one axle of the motor. The rotor modules in adjacent rotor plates mounted on the common axle are

angularly shifted with respect to each other. This means that in adjacent rotor plates, mounted one above the other,

positions of the rotor modules do not coincide in the vertical direction, the adjacent fixed rotor modules having been

fastened with respect to each other in such a way that the rotor modules of one plate are shifted along a circle with respect to the rotor modules of adjacent rotor plate by a certain angle.

The rotor modules on each rotor plate are mounted in a circle conforming to the rotation axis of that rotor plate, at equal angular distances. However, in the case of rotor modules the angular spacing between the respective rotor modules is equal to 40°, not 36° as designed for the stator modules on a single stator plate. This means that 9 rotor modules are mounted on the arms along the perimeter of each of four rotor plates .

A design of the motor drive assembly with adoption of permanent magnets has been proposed. For that purpose a construction of a fixed stator has been worked out which has on the perimeter a number of modules, each of them comprising a package of permanent magnets. Each stator module is

positioned on the perimeter of the frame plate and each of them has an inner through hole. A number of stator modules are mounted on the frame plate perimeter, the diameters of their inner holes making a circle on which rotor modules are

positioned on the fixing arms. Each rotor module makes an asymmetric structure and is spindle-shaped, having the form of a stack of permanent magnet strips mounted in through yokes which have the shape of openwork disks fastened to the rotor module core. The number of permanent magnets in the rotor module stack is larger on the side of the direction of motion of that rotor module, while it decreases in the reverse direction. The proposed non-uniform distribution of magnets in a single rotor module caused a non-uniform distribution of magnetic forces on the side where one rotor module approaches one stator module as compared to the force distribution on the side where that rotor module moves away from that stator module. Experiments which have been carried out have made it possible to determine the value of that non-uniform force distribution at the input and output of the rotor module to/from the stator module. That value repeats at each of the stator modules when the rotor module makes a 360 degrees turn about the motor axis. At the same time the remaining 8 rotor modules on the same level of the engine, occupies various positions with respect to the remaining 9 stator modules, generating other values of the force distribution, moving within the remaining stator modules. However, in any case, as follows from the structure of the rotor module, which

comprises different numbers of permanent magnets in the front and rear parts of that rotor module, the forces at the input and output of each stator module do not balance each other, their resultant being directed in the direction of motor rotation, conforming to the assumed direction of rotation of the rotor plate. That resultant is multiplied depending on the number of complete rotors on the corresponding stator plates.

The subject of the invention is shown as example

embodiments in the enclosed drawings which present the

structure of the magnetic engine according to the invention. The respective figures illustrate:

Fig. la - engine with one stator plate and one rotor plate. Fig. lb - engine with four stator plates of and four rotor plates .

Fig. lc - engine according to fig. 1.1 in a housing.

Fig. 2a - stator module.

Fig. 2b - magnetic field distribution in the stator module. Fig. 3 - rotor module. Fig. 4 - another view of the rotor module.

Fig. 5 - rotor module core.

Fig. 6 - disk.

Fig. 7 - rotor module in a projection along the core axis

Fig. 8a, fig 8b - first package of disks.

Fig. 9a through fig. 9g - second package of disks.

Fig. 10a through fig. lOf - third package of disks.

Fig. 11a through fig. lid - fourth package of disks.

Fig. 12a through fig. 12g - fifth package of disks.

Fig. 13a through fig. 13d - sixth package of disks.

Fig. 14a through fig. 14h - seventh package of disks.

Fig. 15a through fig. 15f - eighth package of disks.

Fig. 16 - diagram of graphs of force vector values

on the rotor modules.

Fig. 17 - table of unit and summed up values of force

vectors on the motor modules .

As shown in fig. la, fig. lb and fig. lc the magnetic engine comprises a frame 1 together with an output element in the form of drive shaft 2. The output drive shaft 2 is

connected to at least one drive unit, that drive unit composed of a fixed stator and a movable rotatable rotor. The rotor of the engine is mounted on said drive shaft 2 by means of arms.

The fixed stator and the movable rotor have the form of rows of permanent magnet packages, namely rows of stator modules 3 mounted on the stator plate 4, and rows of rotor modules 5 mounted on the rotor plate 6. Any package of

permanent magnets has the form of a stator module 3 or a rotor module 5. The stator modules 3 are fastened on a circle perimeter to the stator plate 4, while the rotor modules 5 are fastened on a circle perimeter to the rotor plate 6. A single, repeatable stator module 3 has the form of a semi-closed body containing a through channel for a rotor module 5 mounted on the rotor plate 6.

In a solution according to the example embodiment shown in the enclosed drawings one stator plate 4 of the engine has ten stator modules 3 on its perimeter, while one rotor plate 6 has on its perimeter nine rotor modules 5. The stator modules 3 and the rotor modules 5 are uniformly distributed on the circle perimeter. That means that the stator modules are distributed on the stator plate 4 in a circle with a spacing of 36°, while the rotor modules 5 are distributed on the rotor plate 6 in a circle with a spacing of 40°. In the course of rotation of the rotor plate 6 mounted on the engine shaft successive spindle-like modules of the rotor pass through successive through channels 71 in the fixed stator modules 3. The statement that the stator modules 3 are mounted on the perimeter of the stator plate 4 should be understood as meaning that they are mounted on the stator plate along a line which makes a circle symmetrical with respect to the main axis of the rotor shaft. As the stator modules 3 are mounted in a circle on the plate 4, also the rotor modules 5 are mounted on the rotor plate 6 along a line making a circle. The rotor modules 5 may freely make the rotational motion along with rotation of the rotor plate 6, inside the through channels 71, passing through the magnetic fields of the successive stator modules 3. The stator modules 3 and the rotor modules 5 are uniformly distributed on the circle perimeter, that is the angular spacing of the stator modules 3 is identical as is the angular spacing of the rotor modules 5.

As shown in figures fig. lb and fig. lc of the example embodiment, four stator plates 4 and four rotor plates 6 are mounted on one axle of the magnetic motor. That does not exclude making a motor according to the invention with a different number of stator plates 4 and rotor plates 6. The stator modules 3 in adjacent stator plates 4 mounted on a common axle are angularly shifted with respect to each other. This means that in the four adjacent fixed stator plates 4, mounted one above another, positions of the stator modules 3 do not coincide in the vertical direction, but these adjacent fixed stator plates 4 are positioned relative to each other in such a way that stator modules 3 of one plate 4 are shifted along a circle by a certain angle with respect to the stator modules 3 of adjacent stator plate 4. The stator modules 3 on the respective stator plates 4 are mounted in circles

conforming to the rotation axis of the rotor plates 6, one stator module 3 from another stator module 3 at equal angular distances .

As shown in the enclosed figures, fig. lb and fig. lc, the rotor modules 5 in adjacent rotor plates 6 mounted on the common drive shaft 2 of the engine are angularly shifted with respect to each other. This means that in adjacent rotor plates 6, mounted one above another, positions of the rotor modules 5 do not coincide in the vertical direction, the adjacent rotor modules having been mounted with respect to each other on the drive shaft 2 in such a way that the rotor modules 5 of one plate 6 are shifted along a circle with respect to the rotor modules 5 of adjacent rotor plate 6 by a certain angle.

The rotor modules 5 on each rotor plate 6 are mounted in a circle conforming to the rotation axis of that rotor plate 6, at equal angular distances. However, in the case of rotor modules 5 the angular spacing between the respective rotor modules 5 is equal to 40°, not than 36° as designed for the stator modules 3 on a single stator plate 4. This means that 9 rotor modules 5 are mounted on the arms along the perimeter of each of four rotor plates 6, which gives the total number of 36 rotor modules 5.

The stator of the motor has a modular construction and is set up of the stator modules 3 mounted in series. As shown in the enclosed fig. 2a a stator module of the magnetic engine has the form of a body made of diamagnetic material,

magnetically neutral. For that purpose aluminium has been used; in other example embodiments brass may be used. The stator module 3 comprises two bodies 7 joined together into one assembly. Use in other example embodiments of one or more than two bodies 7, joined together into one stator module, is not excluded. The stator is set up of a series of modules 3. An example stator module 3 will be presented below through description of a single body 7.

As shown in fig. 2a a single semi-closed body 7 has an inner cylindrical free space 71. That can be seen in fig. 2a. The main permanent magnets 72, fastened to that body 7, are symmetrically distributed around the free space 71. The

remaining bodies 7 in the assembly of bodies have in principle a similar construction, with permanent magnets also

distributed around the inner free space 71. That is also shown in fig. 2a, where a stator module in the form of assembly of two bodies 1 is presented. In other example embodiments a stator module 3 may have the form of one body 7 or more than two bodies 7.

In each body 7, in the free space 71 radial projections are formed which point towards the inside of that free space. In the outermost edges of those radial projections through pockets 73 are formed, parallel to the central symmetry axis of that free space 71. In these pockets the main permanent magnets 72 are mounted. In an example embodiment shown in the enclosed fig. 3 the inner free space 71 has the form of cylinder. This does not exclude a different shape of that through free space 71 in other example embodiments. As shown in fig. 2a, within each radial projection, on both surfaces of the body 7 perpendicular to the symmetry axis A of said inner space 71, additional pockets are formed in which additional permanent magnets 74 are mounted.

Each main permanent magnet 72, placed in a pocket 73, together with two adjacent additional permanent magnets 74 placed in additional pockets of said body 7 of the stator module make one magnetic unit. In each magnetic unit the longer outer edges of the additional permanent magnets 74 make a right angle with the longer outer edges of the main

permanent magnet 72. That is distinctly shown in the enclosed fig. 2a. The same figure shows that the main magnets 72 and the additional magnets 74 have the form of strips, where the magnetic poles are situated at the longer edges of those strips .

In turn, the shorter outer edges of the additional magnets 74 and the shorter outer edges of the main permanent magnet 72 in each magnetic unit are beveled at an angle of 45°. They touch at each side of the main permanent magnet 72, to form an angle of 90°. The edge of contact of the main permanent magnet 72 with an additional permanent magnet is designated as 75 in the enclosed fig. 2a. Each set of three magnets, that is one main magnet 72 and two additional magnets 74 forms in the example embodiment shown in fig. 2 a unit resembling the C character . Said additional pockets of the additional magnets 74 according to the invention are openable. To this end each of the additional pockets, where the additional permanent magnets 74 are mounted, has an upper cover 76 with an internal semi- pocket, in which an additional permanent magnet 74 is placed. Each upper cover 76 is fastened to the body 7 of the stator module 3 with the aid of two fastening pieces 77. In the example embodiment shown screws are used for that purpose.

Said upper cover 76 makes a kind of holder for the additional magnet 74. In the example embodiment shown in fig. 2a the additional magnets 74 are fixed to the body 7 with the aid of an intermediate ring 78. The additional magnets 74 are

fastened with the aid of two rings 78 on both sides of the body 7 of the stator module 3. Use of a different technical solution for fastening additional magnets 74 to the body 7 of the stator module 3 in other example embodiments is not

excluded. As shown distinctly on the example embodiment in fig. 2a correction magnets 79, parallel to the main magnets 72, are fixed on bottoms of hollows between the radial

projections of the body 7 of the stator module 3.

Fig. 2b shows a photograph of an example distribution of the magnetic field forces obtained for the stator module 3. Despite the fact that the body 7 of the stator module 3 is a semi-closed element, the magnetic field distribution along the circumference is regular.

A rotor of the engine has a modular construction and is set from a series of rotor modules 5. This is shown in fig. 3 and fig. 4. An example embodiment of a single rotor module 5 of the engine is presented in fig. 3 in an end view and in fig. 4 in a top view. A rotor module 5 is composed of a set of disks 51 of non-magnetic material mounted on a common core 53 and fixing positions of permanent magnets 52. The longitudinal permanent magnets 52 are mounted in windows 51 of the disks.

The rotor module 5 is a spindle-shaped satellite component, as shown in fig. 3 and fig. 4, containing a set of disks 51 which fix the set of permanent magnets 52. On the rotor

perimeter there are a number of rotor modules 5 similar to each other, in the form of spindle-shaped satellite components mounted on radial arms 54 as shown in fig. la, connected together and placed along a circle.

In the rotor module 5 the ends of the non-magnetic material core 53 are provided with catches 55, 56, which link the module core 53 with the cores 53 of the successive modules 5 of the rotor. The linking catches 55, 56 also comprise guiding holders 57, 58 for fastening the above mentioned radial arms 54 of the rotor. The linking catches 55, 56 and the guiding holders 57, 58 are shown in fig. 3 and fig.4.

A core 53 of a rotor module 5 is presented for an example embodiment shown in fig. 5. In that example embodiment the core 53 is an axle made of non-magnetic material, on whose surface there are circumferential channels 59 which stabilize the set of disks 51 and permanent magnets 52. Fig. 6 shows an opening for the core 53 in the disk 51. The core 53 has a polygonal cross section, of hexagon in the case shown. Each disk of the set of disks 51 has a hole with the cross section whose shape corresponds to the shape of the core 53. The hexagonal form of the core 53 and the circumferential channels 59 on that core 53 stabilize the positions of the respective packages of disks 51 on the core 53. In the example version of the invention shown in fig. 5 the core 53 of rotor module 5 contains seven circumferential channels 59, which divide the set of disks 51 into eight packages. Each package contains disks that fasten the permanent magnets 52 and disks for stabilizing their longitudinal positions, as well as disks 51 which perform both these functions. Disks 51 which make the respective packages are shown in the figures, fig.8a through fig. 15f, on an example embodiment of the rotor module with eight packages.

The rotor module core 53 comprises at one end a single linking catch 55, while at the other end it has a double linking catch 56. The spacing between the arms of the double linking catch 56 corresponds to the width of the single linking catch 55. Owing to such a design the single linking catch 55 of the successive rotor module 5 may be put between the arms of the double linking catch 56 on the preceding rotor module 5 to establish connection. In turn, the double catch 56 of the first rotor module 5 may be connected with the single catch 55 of the next rotor module 5.

As shown in fig. 3 the guiding holder 57, 58 of the rotor module comprises a socket 61 for fastening a radial arm of the rotor and is provided with an assembly 11,12 for length adjustment of that arm of the rotor.

A single disk 51 in an example embodiment shown in fig. 6 is an openwork piece with radial projections 64. Inside of these radial projections 64 there are first windows 65 for permanent magnet fastening. The permanent magnets 52 are inserted into these first windows 65 of adjacent disks 51 of a set of disks and fixed that way in them.

The width of said first fixing windows 65 corresponds to the thickness of the permanent magnets 52. The length of the first fixing windows 65 corresponds to a multiple of the permanent magnet 52 width. Thus, a number of permanent magnets 52 may be put and fixed in adjacent windows 65 of adjacent disks 51 to form a stack of permanent magnets 52.

Between the first fixing windows 65, near the symmetry axis of the disk 51, second fixing windows 66 for fastening

permanent magnets are placed. Thus, between said radial

projections 64 of the disk 51, near its symmetry axis, there are the second fixing windows 66 for additional permanent magnets. This is shown in fig.4.

In the described example version the disk 51 may contain n first fixing windows 65 and n-2 second fixing windows 66.

Thus, between two pairs from among many pairs of fixing

windows 65 there are no second fixing windows in the

projections 64 of the disk 51. This makes possible

symmetrizing the magnetic field form within the arm that fastens the rotor module to the rotor rotation axle.

Eight packages of disks 51 are presented in the enclosed figures, from fig. 8a through fig. 15f. In other example embodiments the number of packages of disks 51 may be

different. As shown in the figures each package is separated from the neighboring package with a split disk mounted in a circumferential channel 59 of the core 53. In the example embodiment shown seven circumferential channels 59 have been made along the core 53 and in the drawings of packages of disks 51 as mentioned above seven split disks in seven

packages are shown. The eighth package has no split disk.

Fig. 8a and fig. 8b show two disks 51 of the first package, where the disk according to fig. 8b is a split keep disk.

Figures 9a to 9g show seven disks 51 of the second package, where the disk according to fig. 9g is a split keep disk.

Figures 10a to lOf show six disks 51 of the third package, where the disk according to fig. lOf is a split keep disk. Figures 11a to lid show four disks 51 of the fourth

package, the disk according to fig. lid being a split keep disk.

Figures 12a to 12g show seven disks 51 of the fifth

package, where the disk according to fig. 12g is a split keep disk.

Figures 13a to 13d show four disks 51 of the sixth package, where the disk according to fig. 13d is a split keep disk.

Figures 14a to 14h show eight disks 51 of the seventh package, where the disk according to fig. 14h is a split keep disk.

Figures 15a to 15f show six disks 51 of the eighth package. That package does not have a split keep disk, as this is the end package, mounted as the last one on the core and,

similarly to the first package, it is stabilized on the core 53 by the end components of the rotor module 5 structure.

As shown in the example embodiments in the enclosed

drawings, fig. 6 and fig. 8a to fig. 15f, the disks 51 in the respective packages have a differentiated construction,

containing both the windows for permanent magnets 52 and components stabilizing the longitudinal position of these magnets 52 in the rotor module. The structure of the

respective disks 51 in the respective packages making the disk set is shown in the above mentioned figures.

The permanent magnets 52 have the known form of bars, in which the magnetic poles are situated at the longer edges of these strips. Such a configuration is advantageous for placing the set of magnets in the windows of said disks 51 mounted on the core 53 of the rotor module 51.

As shown in the enclosed fig. 1 the magnetic engine

comprises a frame 1 together with an output element in the form of drive shaft 2. The drive shaft 2 is connected to at least one working unit, that working unit composed of a fixed stator and a movable rotatable rotor. The rotor of the motor is mounted on said drive shaft 2 with the aid of arms 54.

In the example embodiment shown in the figures the fixed stator and the movable rotor have the form of rows of

permanent magnet packages, namely rows of stator modules 3 and rows of rotor modules 5, mounted on the stator plate 4 and the rotor plate 6, respectively. Any package of permanent magnets in the engine has the form of a stator module 3 or a rotor module 5. The stator modules 3 are fastened on a circle

perimeter to the stator plate 4, while the rotor modules 5 are fastened on a circle perimeter to the rotor plate 6. A single, repeatable stator module 3 has the form of a semi-closed body containing a through channel 71 for a rotor module 5 mounted on the rotor plate 6.

As shown in the enclosed drawings one stator plate 4 of the motor has in an advantageous embodiment 10 stator modules 3 on its perimeter, while one rotor plate 6 has on its perimeter 9 rotor modules 5. In the course of rotation of the rotor plate 6 mounted on the drive shaft 2 of the motor successive

spindle-like rotor modules 5 pass through successive through channels 71 in the fixed stator modules 3. The statement that the stator modules 3 are mounted on the perimeter of the stator plate 4 should be understood as meaning that the stator modules 3 are mounted on the fixed stator plate 4 along a line which makes a circle symmetrical with respect to the main axis of rotation of the rotor. As the stator modules 3 are mounted in a circle, also the rotor modules 5 are mounted on the rotor plate 6 along a line making a circle. The rotor modules 5 may freely make the rotational motion along with rotation of the rotor plate 6. The stator modules 3 and the rotor modules 5 are uniformly distributed on the circle perimeter, that is the angular spacing of the stator modules 3 is identical as is the angular spacing of the rotor modules 5.

Fig. 16 shows schematically a developed view of four stator plates 4, which make the drive unit of the motor shown in fig. lb and fig. lc. The numbers 41,42,43 and 44 in the

figures denote the successive rows of the stator module 3, each of them placed on one of the four stator plates 4. As shown in fig. 16 each of the successive rows of stator modules 3 is angularly shifted with respect to the preceding row of stator modules 3 placed on the adjacent stator plate. In fig. 16 the angular shift is shown in the developed view of these circumferential rows 41,42,43,44 of the stator modules 3 as a linear shift. Each row 41,42,43,44 contains ten stator modules 3. That figure also shows experimentally determined values and directions of the force vectors obtained at the respective rotor modules 5. Each row contains nine graphs force vector values, each of them for one rotor module 5.

Thus, there are ten stator modules 3 and nine rotor modules 5 in each of the rows 41,42,43,44.

Fig. 17 shows experimentally determined values and

directions of the force vectors at the respective rotor

modules 5. In four rows 41,42,43,44, corresponding to the four layers of the engine as shown in fig. lb and fig. lc, results measured simultaneously for each layer of nine rotor modules 5, that is for thirty six rotor modules 5, are shown. These results have been numbered from 1 to 36. The value and sense of the force vector at each rotor module 5 has been measured and marked with + or -. As can be seen in fig. 17, that particular experiment showed that negative force vectors at 36 rotor modules 5 amounted altogether to -112,10 kG, while positive force vectors at these 36 rotor modules 5 had the total value of +306,93 kG. This means that in the experiment mentioned a resultant positive output force vector amounting to +194,83 kG was achieved on the drive shaft 2, which was the engine output component for transferring the driving torque to the loads directly or through a transmission.

As shown in fig. lc, mounting of a brake disk 8 on the drive shaft 2 of the engine was foreseen. This brake disk may operate in conjunction with a known braking system or another system for reception of excess energy.

List of denotations on the drawings .

1. Engine frame.

2. Drive shaft.

3. Stator module.

4. Stator plate.

41. First row of stator modules.

42. Second row of stator modules.

43. Third row of stator modules.

44. Fourth row of stator modules

5. Rotor module

51. Rotor disk

52. Permanent magnet.

53. Core.

54. Rotor arm.

55. Catch.

56. Catch.

57. Guiding holder.

58. Guiding holder.

59. Circumferential channel of the core

6. Rotor plate.

61. Fastening socket.

62. Arm length adjustment assembly.

63. Arm length adjustment assembly.

64. Radial projections.

65. First windows for permanent magnets.

66. Second windows for permanent magnets.

7. Stator module body.

71. Free space.

72. Main permanent magnets.

73. Through pockets.

74. Additional permanent magnets.

75. Contact edge of the main and additional magnets.

76. Cover.

77. Fastening piece.

78. Intermediate ring.

79. Correcting magnet.

8. Braking unit disk.

Claims

Claims .

1. A magnetic engine, comprising a frame together with an output element in the form of a drive shaft, and this output drive shaft having been connected to at least one drive assembly, which assembly consists of a fixed stator and a movable rotatable rotor, and the rotor having been mounted with the aid of arms on the rotatable shaft of the motor, characterized in that the fixed stator (3) and the rotatable rotor (5) have the form of series of packages of permanent magnets (52, 72), where each package of permanent magnets (52,72) is mounted on a stator module (3) or rotor module (5), when the stator modules (3) having been placed on the perimeter of a circle on a fixed stator plate (4), and the rotor modules (5) having been placed on the perimeter of a circle on a rotatable rotor plate (6), when single stator module (3) constituting a semiclosed body (7) with a through channel (71) for a rotor module (5) mounted on a rotor plate (6).

2. A magnetic engine of claim 1, characterized in that one stator plate (4) comprises on the circle perimeter 10 stator modules (3), while one rotor plate (6) comprises on the circle perimeter 9 rotor modules (5) , the stator modules (3) and the rotor modules (5) having been uniformly distributed on the circle perimeter. A magnetic engine of claim 1 or 2, characterized in that inside a single stator module (3) in the through channel (71) radial projections pointing towards the inside of that through channel (71) are formed, with through pockets (73) parallel to the central symmetry axis formed in the outermost edges of these radial projections, and main permanent magnets (72) having been mounted in them.

A magnetic engine of claim 1 or 3, characterized in that the through channel (71) of the stator module (3) has a cylindrical shape.

A magnetic engine of claim 3 or 4, characterized in that within each radial projection of the stator module

(3) , on both surfaces of that stator module (3)

perpendicular to the internal symmetry axis of the through channel (71) additional pockets are formed in which additional permanent magnets (74) are mounted. A magnetic engine of claim 5, characterized in that each main permanent magnet (72) in the stator module

(3) , together with two adjacent additional permanent magnets (74), make one magnetic unit.

A magnetic engine of claim 6, characterized in that in each magnetic unit of the stator module (3) the longer outer edges of the additional permanent magnets (74) make a right angle with the longer outer edges of the main permanent magnet (72) .

A magnetic engine of claim 6 or 7, characterized in that in each magnetic unit of the stator module (3) adjacent shorter outer edges of the additional

permanent magnets (74) and shorter outer edges of the main permanent magnet (72) are beveled at an angle of 45°, and the main permanent magnet (72) touches on each side one additional permanent magnet (74) to make an angle of 90°.

9. A magnetic engine of claim 3, characterized in that in curved hollows of the stator body (7) correction magnets (79), parallel to the main magnets (72), are mounted .

10. A magnetic engine of claim 5, characterized in that

each of the additional pockets of the stator module (3) comprises an upper cover (76) for mounting inside that pocket an additional permanent magnet (74), and the cover having been disjointly fastened with the aid of at least one fastening piece (77).

11. A magnetic engine of claim 10, characterized in that the upper cover (76) of the stator module (3) makes a holder, and all the holders having been disjointly fixed to the stator module (3) by means of an

intermediate ring (78).

12. A magnetic engine of claim 5, characterized in that the main magnets (72) and the additional magnets (74) of the stator module (3) have the form of strips, where the magnetic poles are situated at the longer edges of these strips.

13. A magnetic engine of claim 1 or 2, characterized in

that the rotor module (5) is a spindle-shaped satellite component containing a set of shapes in the form of disks (51) which fix the position of the set of

permanent magnets (52) of that rotor module (5), and the ends of a common core (53) made of non-magnetic material, on which the disks (51) of the rotor module (5) are mounted, having been provided with catches (55,56) which link the ends of that core (53) of the rotor module (5) with the ends of cores (53) of the successive rotor modules (5) to form a circle, the linking catches (55,56) comprising guiding holders

(57,58) for the rotor arms (54).

14. A magnetic engine of claim 13, characterized in that the core (53) of the rotor module (5) is an axle with a polygonal cross section, made of magnetically neutral material, which contains along its length at least one circumferential channel (59) fixing the position of the disks (51) and dividing the set of disks (51) into respective packages.

15. A magnetic engine of claim 13 or 14, characterized in that the core (53) of the rotor module (5) comprises n circumferential channels (59) which divide the set of disks (51) of the rotor module (5) into n+1 packages.

16. A magnetic engine of claim 13, characterized in that the core (53) of the rotor module (5) comprises at one end a single linking catch (55) , while at the other end it has a double linking catch (56) , where the spacing between the arms of the double linking catch (56) corresponds to the thickness dimension of the single linking catch (55) .

17. A magnetic engine of claim 13, characterized in that the guiding holder (57,58) contains a fastening socket (61) for the arm (54) of the rotor (5).

18. A magnetic engine of claim 13, characterized in that the disk (51) contains radial projections (64), wherein inside of these radial projections (64) there are first windows (65) for fastening permanent magnets (52).

19. A magnetic engine of claim 18, characterized in that the width of the first fastening windows (65) in the rotor module (5) corresponds to the thickness of the permanent magnets (52) , while the length of these first fastening windows (65) corresponds to a multiple of the width of the permanent magnets (52) .

20. A magnetic engine of claim 18 or 19, characterized in that between the first fastening windows (65), close to the symmetry axis of the disk (51), there are second windows (66) for fastening permanent magnets (52).

21. A magnetic engine of one of claims 18 through 20,

characterized in that the disk (51) of the rotor module

(5) contains n first fastening windows (65) and n-2 second fastening windows (66).

22. A magnetic engine of claim 13, characterized in that the permanent magnets (52) of the rotor module (5) have the form of strips, where the magnetic poles are situated at the longer edges of these strips.

23. A magnetic engine of one of claims 1 or 2,

characterized in that at least two stator plates (4) together with at least two rotor plates (6) are mounted on one axle of the motor, the successive stator plates (4) together with the stator modules (3) having been angularly shifted with respect to each other.

24. A magnetic engine of claim 23, characterized in that four stator plates (4) are mounted in the motor frame, while on the motor drive shaft (2) four rotor plates

(6) are mounted.

25. A magnetic engine of claim 23, characterized in that the angular spacing between the respective stator modules (3) amounts to 36° in all the stator plates (4) .

26. A magnetic engine of claim 23 or 24, characterized in that the angular spacing between the respective rotor modules (5) amounts to 40° in all the rotor plates (6) .

27. A magnetic engine of claim 23, characterized in that the angular shift of the stator modules (3) between adjacent stator plates (4) is equal to 9°.

28. A magnetic engine of claim 23 or 27, characterized in that the stator modules (3) in the successive stator plates (4) are shifted angularly with respect to each other in one direction.

29. A magnetic engine of claim 23, characterized in that the rotor modules (5) in the respective rotor plates (6) are shifted angularly with respect to each other.

30. A magnetic engine of claim 23 or 29, characterized in that the angular shift of the rotor modules (5) between adjacent rotor plates (6) is equal to 10°.

31. A magnetic engine of claim 29 or 30, characterized in that the rotor modules (5) in the successive rotor plates (6) are shifted angularly with respect to each other in one direction.