Rhythmic motion driver
OwnerNorman Kurzinventor
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Abstract
A rhythmic motion driver having a case containing flywheels and a guide along which the flywheels move linearly while rotating. A spring is within the case that compresses and expands in response to oscillatory motion of a bar that extends through an opening in the case. The spring compression and expansion is slowed but not dampened by the movement of the flywheels.
Claims19
A rhythmic motion driver, comprising:
- angular momentum storage means arranged to spin, and arranged to move in two opposing linear directions in response to a linear force being applied to the angular momentum storage means,
- resilient resistance means being arranged to provide another linear force on said angular momentum storage means concurrently with the spinning motion of the angular momentum storage means,
- the angular momentum storage means being arranged to impart angular momentum in a manner that reflects periodic conversion of the linear forces being applied to the angular momentum storage means, the resilient resistance means having an end arranged to move concurrently with the linear motion of the angular momentum storage means and relative to another end of the resilient resistance means.
A method of driving rhythmic motion comprising:
- spinning flywheels while moving said flywheels in a linear oscillatory motion in response to an exertion of linear forces on said flywheels,
- changing an amount of compression of a spring concurrently with the linear motion of the flywheels, and
- opposing said spinning of said flywheels with a linear force exerted by said spring.
A method of driving rhythmic motion comprising:
- (a) providing a first guided movement of a first attachment that includes the flywheels that are mechanically leveraged to produce simultaneous angular momentum, said first guided movement being resisted by a first resilient force exerted by a spring,
- (b) providing from said first attachment a second guided movement of a second attachment that is mechanically leveraged to produce simultaneous angular momentum, said second attachment moving perpendicular to said first guided movement, said second guided movement being resisted by a second resilient force,
- (c) providing a third guided movement of a second attachment that is mechanically leveraged to produce simultaneous angular momentum, said third guided movement being perpendicular to both said first and said second guided movements, said third guided movement being resisted by a third resilient force, whereby said second attachment drives a handle simultaneously in three rhythmic motions perpendicular to each other, resulting in a periodic path through three dimensions.
A rhythmic motion driver, comprising
- a housing having an elongated opening,
- a movable element within the housing and movable in a direction of elongation of the elongated opening,
- a bar extending through the opening and attached to the movable element,
- a guide arranged to guide the movable element to effect oscillatory movement within the housing,
- a spring within the housing and arranged to effect compression and expansion in response to the oscillatory movement by the bar, and
- flywheels arranged within the housing to move concurrently with the oscillatory movement to slow the compression and expansion of the spring, the flywheels effecting linear motion and rotatable movement at the same time.
A rhythmic motion driver, comprising flywheels arranged to spin while linearly oscillating in response to an exertion of forces back and forth, a spring being arranged to provide a linear force on said flywheels concurrently with the spinning of the flywheels, the flywheels being arranged to impart angular momentum in a manner that reflects periodic conversion of the linear force being applied to the flywheels, the spring having an end arranged to move concurrently with the oscillatory motion of the flywheels and relative to another end of the spring.
A method of driving rhythmic motion, comprising:
- (a) exerting a linear force to move a flywheel in two opposing linear directions;
- (b) spinning the flywheel as the flywheel moves in each of the two opposing linear directions to impart an angular momentum force on the flywheel,
- wherein the angular momentum force augments or opposes the linear force in either of the two opposing linear directions and opposes a reversal of direction in either of the two opposing linear directions,
- wherein the flywheel spins in a clockwise direction as the flywheel moves in one of the two opposing linear directions and spins in a counterclockwise direction as the flywheel moves in another of the two opposing linear directions;
- and,
- (c) applying another linear force to the flywheel with a spring,
- wherein the another linear force augments or opposes the linear force and the angular momentum force depending upon a linear position and direction of movement of the flywheel.
A rhythmic motion driver comprising:
- an element capable of a back and forth oscillatory movement,
- at least one flywheel arranged to rotate and counter-rotate respectively, in direct correspondence with the back and forth oscillatory movement of the element,
- a spring arranged to effect compression and expansion respectively in direct correspondence with the back and forth oscillatory movement of the element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.