A reciprocating engine has at least one cylinder forming an inner chamber, at least one piston reciprocatingly movable in the inner chamber of the at least one cylinder, a unit for converting a reciprocating movement of the piston to move an outside object, a unit for reciprocatingly moving the at least one piston in the at least one cylinder the reciprocatingly moving unit including magnet elements with at least one electromagnet connected with the cylinder and at least another electromagnet connected with the piston, so that when a polarity of the magnet elements is changed, a magnetic interaction of the electromagnets with one another causes the reciprocating movement of the piston.
An electromagnetic engine comprises an electromagnet having opposing magnetic poles at ends thereof. A non-magnetic rigid support is mounted for oscillatory stroke movement relative to the electromagnet. A crankshaft is coupled to the support; a sensor is coupled to the crankshaft and outputs a crankshaft position signal. First and second permanent magnets are affixed to the support on either side of the electromagnet and are oriented so as to present the same magnetic pole to each respective end of the electromagnet. The permanent magnets are spaced from one another by a distance approximately equal to the distance between the first and second ends of the electromagnet plus the stroke movement of the support. A timing circuit is operative to switch the electromagnet between first and second energized states in response to the crankshaft position signal. Also disclosed is an electromagnetic engine in which a piston moves along guide rails.
An energy producing apparatus utilizing magnetic pistons is provided. Permanent magnets of like polarity are employed within a cylinder of each piston and upon a top portion of said piston. The like polarity pistons have a natural desire to repel one another. A ferromagnetic slipper unit is inserted into a gap in said cylinder between the permanent magnets of like polarity to interfere with said magnetic repulsive field and to cause a magnetic attractive field. Each piston is attached to a push rod which in turn is attached to shaft and flywheel system. The change in magnetic fields from repulsion to attraction cases the piston to push up and down and turn the shaft and flywheel system. Two pistons in coincidence can be used so that while one piston is repelling, the other is attracting causing an increase in motive power.
An electric engine having four drive mechanisms, four piston coil systems that fire ninety degrees (90.degree.) apart and cause a previously fired piston coil system to return to its original position when another piston is subsequently fired and four crank systems, wherein each drive mechanism comprises a metallic T-yoke, ring-shaped magnet, metallic hollowed cylinder; each piston coil system comprises a wire coil, coil ring/slab and non-metallic spacer/coil-rod-connector; and each crank system comprises a drive rod, crank rod, guide plate/rod guide, guide plate housing, crank system housing, non-metallic gasket and crankshaft.
A permanent magnet reciprocating engine and method are provided wherein a first field plate having magnetic fields of two polarities interact with the magnetic field of a magnet located on a piston plate. The first field plate is moved to alternately bring the magnetic field of a first polarity and the magnetic field of a second polarity into alignment with the magnetic field of the piston plate, thus alternately attracting and repelling the piston plate to the field plate. The piston plate is connected to a piston rod, which reciprocates along an axis as a result of the alternately attractive and repulsive forces exerted on the piston plate by the field plate. A translation mechanism, such as a crankshaft, translates the linear motion of the piston rod along the axis into rotary motion that can be harnessed as power.
