The most difficult
problem in the design, prototyping and development of the magnet engines http://www.ipaustralia.com.au/applicant/zenin-vladimir-mr/patents/AU2014240249/ is the creation of new special permanent
magnets.
Production of magnets
for electric motors has long-term experience and offers excellent product.
However, these magnets are not suitable for engines using only permanent magnets.
It is necessary to conduct research and development activities with the joint
participation of the engine design engineers and creators of the permanent
magnet technologies for their production. It is also necessary to conduct experiments and precise
measurements of the attractive/repulsive forces of already used and newly
created magnets that applicable to the requirements of a new way of converting
force of permanent magnets into rotary motion described in this patent https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289536285_Magnet_engine.
I will explain
this using my first 3D printed prototype of the magnet engine. It is made of White
Strong &
Flexible Plastic (Nylon).
Assembled 3D printed magnet
engine.
Magnet engine with frame
covers only half of all engine components.
This frame provides free
access to the elements of the design at their installation and adjustment.
3D
printed rotor.
Picture of the rotor shows a complex
geometric shape of permanent magnets holders. I could install on such a curved surface small 5x5x1mm blocks of
Neodymium Magnets to try to follow the curvature of the magnet’s holder.
However, a surface consisting of individual magnets is not continuous and
smooth, and does not create a uniform magnetic field along the rotor’s magnets.
Only magnetic strips of flexible material can provide a full recap of the
holder's surface and homogeneity of magnetic field of the strips. I use strips of the Flexible Neodymium magnets. Magnetization
direction: through strips thickness.
Some
3D printed components of the engine.
Surfaces to install magnets on
the wheels of the dynamic stator are not flat too and their shape can exactly follow
only strips of flexible material. I use strips of the Flexible Neodymium
magnets here too.
An important feature of
flexible magnets is that, following the shape of the holder’s surface the
direction of their magnetization always retain through their thickness. Creating
solid strong magnet of complex shapes with magnetization direction changing along
its length as it is happening with flexible magnets will be a difficult technical
challenge.
The design of
the engine provides an equal distance between rotor and stator magnets during its
operation. In this model, the distance between the rotor and stator magnets and
engine power accordingly may vary with the help of a special mechanism in the rotor.
These are only
the first steps in building a prototype of this kind of magnet engine. It will
be a long and difficult way through research and development investigative
activities.
However, the new
method for converting magnetic force into rotary motion http://www.ipaustralia.com.au/applicant/zenin-vladimir-mr/patents/AU2014200321/ provides the possibility of
using strong magnets of simple geometric forms.
Magnet engine with two
simple cylindrical magnets.
Magnet engine with only
one magnet and steel magnetic disc.
The driving
force of the first engine is a repulsive force of two strong magnets, while the
driving force of the second engine is power of the steel disc attraction by magnet
of cylindrical shape.
The picture
below is the Fig. 5 from the description of the Engine and Method https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305209310_Magnet_engine_and_method that explain the device of the engine and how it works.
Cutaway view through rotor of two magnets engine.
Magnet engine (1) includes a shaft (2) with a platform (3)
mounted on a frame (4). Multiple bell cranks assemblies (5) arranged on said
platform in a rotor (6) with a first permanent magnet (7) installed on the
shaft with its edges on upper hands of the bell cranks (8), the lower hands of
which placed against a power rod (9) with guiding wheels (10). Second permanent
magnet (18) mounted on frame (4) face to face with the first magnet (7). It has
a hole in its centre, which provides free passage through it the rotor shaft
(2). Multiple cylindrical wheels (11) with helical rails (12) and own shafts
(13) both ends of which connected to flexible joints (14) arranged about the
rotor in a first main transmission (15). All shafts (13) seat in the bearing
brackets (16) attached to the frame (4) and arranged in a dynamic stator (17)
with helical rails (12) under permanent pushing of the guiding wheels (10) in
the tangent direction. Engine design completes the transmission (19) which transmit torque from stator (17) to
output shaft (2).
In this engine, bell cranks 8 are used for transmitting the
force of permanent magnets through a right angle and its amplification, if
necessary, but not for transmitting a motion. Bell crank 8, power rod 9 and guiding wheel 10 are in
the same position in bell crank assemblies 5 during engine operation. The
guiding wheels 10 is constantly stay on helical rails 12 of the dynamic stator,
power rod 9 is in constant contact with the lower hand of the bell cranks 8 and the guiding wheels 10
and the upper hand of the bell cranks 8 is in constant contact with the magnet
7 or steel disc (in case of the one magnet engine). All of these mechanical
elements 8, 9 and 10 transmit the force F to the wheels 11 of the dynamic stator
17 at an acute tangent angle and do not participate in the movement as the
distance from the rotor axis to the helical rails 12 on the surface of the
dynamic stator’s wheels all the time remains constant. Thus, the platform 3 of
the rotor undergoes no pushing from force F, and the whole of its power is
applied only to the wheels 11 of the dynamic stator. Wheels of the dynamic
stator may not be able to rest under the influence of force on them at an acute
tangent angle; they begin rotational motion and involve in motion all the
moving parts of the engine.
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