Permanent magnet propulsion system

Abstract

This invention is a propulsion system for a train that uses permanent magnets mounted on a rotating iron cylindrical plate carrying a radial current in order to create a spacetime curvature distortion which pulls the locomotive along the track.

1 . A train propulsion system consisting of the following components: 
 a. a rotating iron cylindrical plate rotor of high relative permeability driven by an induction motor and horizontal steel motor shaft mounted in pillow block thrust bearings;    b. four cylindrical magnets, each molded to a steel support shaft threaded into the iron plate at 90° intervals around the rim of the plate with their north poles facing away from the plate;    c. a fifth cylindrical magnet molded to a steel support shaft which is threaded into the center of the iron plate with the south pole facing away from the plate;    d. an N-machine current generator supplying a radial electrical current from the center of the rotating plate by means of a copper-beryllium brush on the motor shaft ( 1   a ) and another similar brush on the outside edge of the rotor.    e. a locomotive train on which the components are mounted such that the rotor/magnet assembly extends out in front of the locomotive with the rotor's angular velocity vector pointing along the track.    
   
   
       2 . a closed magnetic flux path along a radial path in air from the north poles of the four outer magnets ( 1   b ) to the south pole of the central magnet ( 1   c ), through the center magnet and then radially outward through the rotor ( 1   a ), returning back through the four outer magnets, such that the flux and electrical current ( 1   d ) flow in the same outward radial direction through the rotor.  
   
   
       3 . the creation of a spacetime curvature due to claims ( 1   a  through  2 ) that produces a large force on the locomotive equal to the radius of the spacetime curvature times the flux times the current.