Patent ID: 8288904

Claim:
An apparatus for coupling magnetic forces into motive force, the apparatus comprising: a spinner arm, the spinner arm comprising: a helical array of magnets having an axis of rotation coincident with its helical axis; a spinner arm shaft onto which the helical array of magnets is mounted, wherein the axis of the spinner arm shaft is coincident with the helical axis and allows the helical array to rotate about its axis; and a rotational timing coupling; a power bed, said power bed comprising an inner array of magnets and an outer array of magnets, wherein the inner and outer arrays define a power track of respective lines, said respective lines defining a power bed plane; a translational timing coupling coupled to the rotational timing coupling of the spinner arm; and a hub into which the spinner arm shaft is inserted, allowing rotation of the spinner arm about its axis, said hub further constructed to allow the hub and spinner arm to move in a translational direction substantially along the power track defined by the power bed and; wherein the spinner arm is orientable in a first translational displacement distal from the power bed and the helical array of magnets is orientable in a first angular orientation, such that a first magnetic force exists between the power bed and the spinner arm; wherein, as the spinner arm moves in translational displacement towards the power bed, the respective timing couplings cause the spinner arm to rotate about the spinner arm axis in relation to the displacement of the spinner arm; wherein the spinner arm is orientable in a second translational displacement proximal to the power bed and the helical array of magnets is orientable in a second angular orientation, such that a second magnetic force between the power bed and the spinner arm repels the spinner arm from the second translational displacement position and away from the power bed in the translational direction; wherein the second magnetic force is greater than the first magnetic force; and wherein a load may be coupled to the hub.