16-03-2012, 02:50 PM
Electromagnetic piston engine
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The present invention relates to an electromagnetic piston engine capable of producing driving power by a reciprocal movement of a piston in a cylinder by electromagnetic force. The present invention has the objects to provide the electromagnetic piston engine which can do without a variety of resistance inherent in internal combustion piston engines, which reduces the weight corresponding to a rotary assembly portion to a smaller value even if a great output is produced, which can be readily employed together with power transmission mechanisms and so on for use with conventional internal combustion piston engines, and which has a high efficiency in energy consumption. The electromagnetic piston engine is provided with the cylinder and the piston made each of a magnetic material as well as with as the cylinder electromagnet having the inner wall of the cylinder magnetizable to a one magnetic pole and with the piston magnetization unit for magnetizing a portion of the piston engageable with the cylinder to a single magnetic pole in a fixed manner. The magnetization of the cylinder electromagnet generates magnetically attracting force between the cylinder and the piston to cause the piston to move in a one direction and thereafter magnetically repellent force to transfer the piston in the opposite direction. This series of the actions are repeated to provide a continual reciprocal movement of the piston.
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an electromagnetic piston engine adapted to produce driving power by the electromagnetic force created by a reciprocal movement of a piston in a cylinder.
BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY
In the recent years, the development of electric vehicles is exploding. Such electric vehicles use an electric drive motor as a power source. Conventional electric drive motors are designed to pick up rotational energy of a rotor as a power by directly rotating the rotor by electromagnetic force.
The electric drive motors of such a type, however, lead naturally to an increase in the weight of a rotor in order to pick up greater outputs and, as a consequence, suffer from the disadvantages that the weight of the portion corresponding to a rotary assembly section becomes heavy. The such electric drive motors require a power transmission mechanism for transmitting the driving power from a power source to the wheels to be designed to be adapted to the features of the such electric drive motors. Power transmission mechanisms for internal combustion piston engines, which have been generally used for conventional vehicles, cannot always be applied to electric vehicles as they are. These problems impose greater burdens upon the designing of electric vehicles.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The electromagnetic piston engine according to the present invention in one aspect comprises a cylinder and a piston, each made of a magnetic material, a cylinder electromagnet having an inner wall of the cylinder magnetizable to a one magnetic pole, and a piston magnetization unit for magnetizing a portion of the piston engageable with the cylinder to a single magnetic pole in a fixed manner, in which the piston is transferred in a one direction by creating a magnetic attraction force between the cylinder and the piston by exciting the cylinder electromagnet; and the piston is then transferred in the opposite direction by creating a magnetic repellent force therebetween, followed by repeating this series of the actions of alternately creating the magnetic attraction force and the magnetic repellent force to allow the piston to perform a reciprocal movement.