Impulse drive with oscillating stroke of a gyroscope arm

Abstract

An impulse engine 1, with an oscillating stroke of a gyroscope arm 2, wherein with the mass inertia correlated with the gyroscopic precession, a gyroscope arm 2, which is fixed to the gyroscope holder 13 and is oriented with the longitudinal axis 3 transversely to the gyroscopic axis 6, leads transversely at the other end into the central shaft 8 which alternately deflects strokes of the actuator 12, which strokes on average oscillate linearly to the direction of travel 21, to the left and right in order to pivot the arm 4 to and fro radially about the central shaft 8, and a second arm 4 protrudes with a positive lock from the gyroscope holder 13 coaxially to the gyroscope arm 2 and said arm 4, which is equal in length towards the gyroscopic axis 6, is loaded by the hydraulic actuator 12 via the lifting linkage 11 and each quarter-circle tilting 18, in the starting region of a stroke, of the gyroscope 5 about the gyroscope arm 2 is followed by semicircular pivoting 20 of the gyroscope 5 about the central shaft 8 at a dynamically increasing and decreasing speed, etc.

Description

[0001] Description:

[0002] The first patent-relevant filing with the Austrian Patent Office regarding the findings on impulse propulsion using gyroscopic precession was made in 2015. At that time, it was demonstrated that gyroscopic precession can, in principle, function as propulsion without interaction with the environment. This filing was published under the application number AT517678A2 and later, for example, under the European application number WO2017037528A1.

[0003] The inventor had previously succeeded in solving the more than 300-year-old riddle of Isaac Newton's third axiom, according to which Newton mistakenly assumed in the 17th century that an action must always be followed by a coaxial reaction, meaning that an action and a reaction always proceed linearly. However, even back in the 17th century, Newton could not mathematically substantiate this claim. Therefore, he explicitly called this unverifiable thesis an "axiom" rather than a "law of nature."

[0004] A law of nature is, as we know, an irrefutable physical law that can be mathematically proven and verified. In contrast, an axiom is merely an empirical thesis that cannot be refuted at first, cannot be mathematically substantiated, and is only considered "probably true" until proven otherwise.

[0005] Thus, one might assume that the globally accepted scientific classifications of the terms "natural law" and "axiom," and thus also of Newton's third axiom, have spread around the world. However, this apparently does not apply to the Austrian Patent Office. When the inventor submitted the aforementioned conclusive fundamental findings there in 2015 and demonstrated that, by applying gyroscopic precession, an action can indeed result in a technically usable, non-linear reaction, the inventor's scientific findings were not even examined. An examiner at the Austrian Patent Office took the absurd view that Newton's axioms were equivalent to a natural law and therefore not "worthy of examination."Thus, this initial application already disclosed findings that at least outlined that by selectively tilting a gyroscope around a radial arm, while simultaneously pivoting the arm around a central shaft, a thrust that is constant relative to the surroundings is generated by the temporarily recurring rotational resistance on the central shaft or the lifting resistance of the gyroscope arm. If the aforementioned torque or rotational resistance occurs in cyclical sequences, the rotational resistance exerts a torque on the vehicle, which can be converted into linear thrust.

[0006] These clearly presented basic findings were not understood, and the examiner equated the invention with a "perpetual motion machine" and rejected it as absurd, as it supposedly contradicted valid "laws of nature."

[0007] The following practical findings - beyond the basic knowledge from 2015 - are based on the physical relationships of mass inertia in the coupled dependence on the temporary gyroscopic precession:

[0008] The impulse engine operates by correlating the mass inertia with the temporarily occurring gyroscopic precession during the semicircular oscillating stroke of a gyro arm. A gyro arm is fixed to the gyro mount, with its longitudinal axis aligned transversely to the gyro axis. This gyro arm, with its other end pivoted in the axis, extends transversely into the central shaft. The gyro arm moves in the center of its semicircular stroke primarily in and against the direction of travel, deflecting the gyro and the two coaxial arms to the left and right with the alternating strokes of the hydraulic actuator, thus pivoting them radially back and forth in a semicircle around the central shaft.

[0009] The second arm emerges rigidly and coaxially from the gyro mount opposite the gyro arm, positively locking. This arm is of equal length to the first, up to the gyro axis, which means that the dynamic stroke of the hydraulic actuator is initially converted into the rotation of the gyro around its center of mass, thus preventing any forces from occurring that could counteract the thrust direction of the impulse engine. Via the stroke linkage of the hydraulic actuator, this resistance to the quarter-circle tilt dynamically loads the arm at the beginning of each stroke so that it temporarily generates thrust that is free of interaction with the environment. This stroke begins at a dynamically increasing speed and then hits a mechanical stop at the end of the tilt movement, where the movement transitions into the semi-circular pivoting of the arms.During this swiveling motion, the gyroscope and its arms are decelerated from the "maximum speed" at the zenith of the semicircle to zero speed at the end of the semicircle, and then accelerated back to maximum speed in the opposite direction, and so on, in the preceding change of the lifting direction.

[0010] The gyro arm is pivotally mounted transversely within the central shaft. With each alternating stroke of the hydraulic actuator, the gyro arm and gyro, caused by gyro precession, tilts synchronously by approximately a quarter turn forward and reverses during the next stroke. During this tilting movement, the gyro assumes a position aligned transversely to the gyro axis relative to the central shaft.

[0011] The tilt angle of this tilting caused by gyroscopic precession is finite and limited. The tilting ends approximately every quarter of a revolution, with the gyro or gyro arm hitting a rigid mechanical stop. This enforced halt in tilting eliminates the effect of gyroscopic precession on the tilting. By applying a load to the stop, the effect of gyroscopic precession, which was previously a useful pseudo-weight, is immediately eliminated.

[0012] The gyroscope, with its weight consisting of its actual mass times acceleration with constantly given mass inertia, is temporarily subjected to a load in addition to the temporary lifting resistance of the mass inertia – the lifting resistance from the gyroscope's precession as a pseudoweight during quarter-circle tilting – in only the area from the beginning of the semicircular swivel on the mechanical arm. The acceleration of the actual mass always results in the same moment of inertia, since the radius of the center of mass around the central shaft never changes. However, the rotation of the mass around the central shaft creates a centrifugal force which, in sum, equalizes the forces of acceleration and deceleration outwards. When the tilting movement reaches a stop, the pseudoweight of the gyroscope's precession disappears, and only the lifting resistance from the mass inertia resulting from the dynamic acceleration remains.The lifting resistance that must be overcome to accelerate in the first part of the semicircular swiveling has a recuperative effect in the second part during the braking phase.

[0013] By accelerating, it is achieved that around the initial distance of the semi-circular swiveling with the quarter-circle tilting of the gyroscope, a temporarily increased lifting resistance occurs due to the interaction of the inertia of the accelerated, real mass and the effect of the gyroscope precession.

[0014] However, since the pseudo-weight of the gyroscopic precession is no longer present before the zenith of the slewing radius, the thrust effect is proportional to the angle to the direction of travel and the thrust-generating travel distance. Thus, the gyroscopic precession is eliminated before the center of the circular slewing is reached.

[0015] The actuator is preferably a hydraulic cylinder, whose lifting rods are connected to the mechanical arm via a pivoting and rotating ball head. Hydraulic drives generally offer the advantage of being able to significantly shorten the thrust-generating phase of takeoff acceleration, for example. Hydraulic force can also be distributed over long distances to spatially distributed receivers, and the dynamics of the working pressure can be finely controlled.

[0016] To eliminate the alternating, damaging effects of gyroscopic precession, several thrusters with parallel, central shafts operate side by side in a symmetrical manner, with the semicircular thrusters rotating in opposite directions. Thrusters with opposite directions of rotation eliminate disruptive secondary gyroscopic precession, which is particularly essential for aircraft and spacecraft.

[0017] The arrangement of multiple thrusters with opposing rotation directions of the slewing radius becomes even more necessary the smaller the slewing angle, or the less it actually forms a semicircle. If the slewing angle is only 90 degrees, for example, half the work of a thrust impulse is detrimentally deflected in a direction lateral to the direction of travel. This makes it advisable to maintain a truly semicircular slewing angle.

[0018] The centrifugal motors are preferably designed as electric motors, as this allows the maximum possible speed to be achieved, and the supply of electrical energy to electric motors, which according to the invention only oscillate back and forth, can be reliably and smoothly. Speeds of up to 100,000 rpm can be achieved.

[0019] The power of the propulsion systems according to the invention is regulated via the hydraulic pressure and the cycle frequency of the hydraulic cylinders. Hydraulic systems also offer the advantage that drives distributed throughout the vehicle can be easily supplied via hydraulic lines.

[0020] Legend:

[0021] 1 = propulsion

[0022] 2 = Gyro arm

[0023] 3 = Longitudinal axis of the gyro arm

[0024] 4 = Rigid arm

[0025] 5 = roundabout

[0026] 6 = Gyro axis

[0027] 7 = Gyro disc

[0028] 8 = central shaft

[0029] 9 = Longitudinal axis of the central shaft

[0030] 10 = ball head joint

[0031] 11 = lifting rod

[0032] 12 = hydraulic actuator / hydraulic cylinder

[0033] 13 = Gyro holder

[0034] 14 = Connection sides on the gyro bracket

[0035] 15 = Stops for gyro tilting

[0036] 16 = Quarter circle tilt angle of the gyro tilt up to the mechanical stop

[0037] 17 = Centrifugal engine

[0038] 18 = Thrust-generating quarter-circle tilting of the gyroscope around the gyroscope arm

[0039] 19 = Braking phase

[0040] 20 = Semi-circular lifting radius of the rotary swivel

[0041] 21 = Direction of travel

[0042] 22 = Vehicle Description of the drawings:

[0043] Fig. 1 shows a schematic plan view of a propulsion device (1) according to the invention. In this illustration, the gyroscope disc (7) is shown without the usual axial lateral inclination for the sake of clarity and, as an exception, shows the gyroscope disc (7) in a vertical position as an example. The gyroscope is positioned in the spatial center / in weight balance between the gyroscope arm (2) and the mechanical arm (4). This ensures that the dynamic tensile or thrust forces applied to the gyroscope (5) via the hydraulic actuator (12) are initially converted into angular momentum about its center / the center of mass of the gyroscope (5).

[0044] In this way, the stroke of the hydraulic actuator (12) is first converted into the rotation of the gyroscope (5) including the arms (2, 4) around the center of rotation of the gyroscope axis (6) as the center of mass. Therefore, no force reaches the central shaft (8) that could have a damaging effect against the direction of travel (21), since the dynamic impulse of the hydraulic actuator (12) for tilting the gyroscope (5) is converted into the axial rotation of the gyroscope (5) around its center (6) – its center of mass.

[0045] The lifting movement of the hydraulic actuator (12) is deflected alternately to the left and right in the subsequent semicircular pivoting (20) with the gyro arm (2), which is aligned coaxially with the actuator (12), thus generating a back-and-forth pivoting of the gyro (5) and its arms (2, 4) around the central shaft (8) and a back-and-forth pivoting of the hydraulic actuator (12) around its suspension on the base. In the drawing in Fig. 1, the pivoting is shown as smaller than a semicircle (20) for the sake of simplicity. In practice, however, the pivot angle (20) must actually describe the semicircle.

[0046] The actuator (12) consists of a double-acting hydraulic cylinder, which allows the switching cycles to be controlled dynamically and in duration. Spatial distribution of multiple propulsion units (1) within a vehicle (22) is also easily achieved. In the drawing in Fig. 1, the gyroscope (5) is shown in the aforementioned middle position. On either side of the possible inclination angle (16), the gyroscope (5) moves onto one of the two mechanical stops (15).

[0047] Furthermore, the direction in which the vehicle (22) moves with this arrangement of the components shown and the forces acting on them—without interaction with the environment—is shown. The drawing also shows that the vehicle (22) moves forward coaxially to the central stroke direction of the hydraulic actuator (12).

[0048] It is also shown that the lifting rod (11) docks at the mechanical connection to the end of the rigid arm (4) on the gyroscope (5). This connection is established by means of a ball-and-socket joint (10), as this allows both the rotation of the rigid arm (4) relative to the lifting rod (11) and the thrust of the rod (11) from the angle of the lifting rod (11) relative to the rigid arm (4), which changes during the stroke.

[0049] The actuator, which moves the lifting rod (11), is designed as a double-acting hydraulic cylinder (12) and has a sufficient stroke length to pivot the rotor (5) back and forth around the central shaft (8) to the required extent.

[0050] Figure 2 shows section AA of the propulsion system (1). It is evident that the tilting of the rotor (5) is only permitted within a specific angle of rotation (16), which is aligned parallel to the central shaft (8). It is also evident that the rotor (5) encounters a mechanical impact (15) that prevents further tilting of the rotor arm (2).

[0051] This tilt limiter (15) has the task of abruptly interrupting the effect of the gyroscopic precession by generating a pseudo load from the gyroscopic precession on the arm (4) at the end of the phase well before the zenith of the semicircle (18). Furthermore, it can be seen in this drawing in Fig. 2 that the semicircular pivoting (20) of the gyro (5) via the arm (4) originates from the hydraulic actuator (12) mounted linearly to the lifting device. This pushes or pulls the arm (4), which is aligned linearly with the direction of travel (21), back and forth in approximately a semicircle (20), projecting to the left and right of the direction of travel (21).

[0052] Of course, other mechanical designs are also conceivable that can provide the movement characteristics for the pivoting (20) of the gyroscope (5), for which, for example, a gear with a cam disk would be suitable. The shape of the cams can be specified so that the acceleration stroke (18) is particularly sharp and, conversely, the deceleration (19) is gentle and extended.

Claims

Patent claims:

1. Impulse engine (1), with oscillating stroke of a gyro arm (2), characterized in that in correlation of mass inertia to gyro precession, a gyro arm (2) fixed to the gyro holder (13) and aligned with the longitudinal axis (3) transverse to the gyro axis (6) opens at the other end transversely into the central shaft (8), which deflects the strokes of the hydraulic actuator (12), which oscillate linearly to the direction of travel (21), alternately to the left and right in order to pivot the arm (4) radially back and forth about the central shaft (8) and a second arm (4) coaxially opposite the gyro arm (2) emerges from the gyro holder (13) in a form-fitting manner and is connected to this arm (4) of the same length as the gyro axis (6) via the lifting linkage (11) of the hydr.Actuator (12) is loaded and in each case the quarter-circle tilting (18) of the gyroscope (5) around the gyroscope arm (2) in the initial range of a stroke is followed by a semi-circular swiveling (20) of the gyroscope (5) around the central shaft (8) with dynamically increasing and decreasing speed, etc.

2. Impulse engine (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the gyro arm (2) is rotatably mounted transversely through the central shaft (8) in the latter and with each alternating stroke of the hydraulic actuator (12) the gyro (5) is synchronously tilted approximately a quarter turn around the gyro arm (2) and back during the next stroke due to gyro precession and by means of this tilting the gyro (5) is aligned with the gyro axis (2) transversely to the central shaft (8).

3. Impulse engine (1) according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the tilting movement (16) of the gyro arm (2) or gyro (5) hits a rigid mechanical stop (15) after every approximately quarter turn and as a result the lifting resistance due to gyro precession ends immediately according to the invention.

4. Impulse engine (1) according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the gyro (5) with its mass inertia and additionally from the gyro precession during the approximate quarter-circle tilting (16) applies a load to the hydraulic actuator (12) via the mechanical arm (4) at the beginning and end of the semicircular stroke (20), and the effect of the gyro precession as a temporary pseudo-weight is eliminated at the end of the quarter-circle tilting (16).

5. Impulse engine (1) according to claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the hydraulic actuator (12) is preferably a hydraulic cylinder and its lifting rod (11) is connected to the mechanical arm (4) via a pivoting and rotatable ball head (10) in a force-locking manner.

6. Impulse engine (1) according to claims 1 to 5, characterized in that, in order to eliminate alternately occurring, damaging gyroscopic precessions, at least two impulse engines (1) with central shafts (8) aligned parallel to one another operate closely next to one another in a propulsive-symmetrical manner with opposite directions of rotation of the semicircular strokes (20).

7. Impulse engine (1) according to claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the gyromotors (17) are preferably electrically driven and thus the maximum possible speed is sought.

8. Impulse engine (1) according to claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the power regulation of the propulsion units (1) according to the invention is carried out via the hydraulic pressure and the clock frequency of the hydraulic cylinder / actuator (12).

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