Electromagnetic motor

Claim 1

An electromagnetic motor which comprises a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets at regularly spaced positions on its periphery, a stator closely encompassing said rotor and mounting a plurality of permanent magnets in predetermined positions to provide cyclical attraction and repulsion forces on said rotor magnets, said stator also mounting a plurality of electromagnets in predetermined positions to provide attraction and repulsion forces on said rotor magnets, and means for periodically energizing said electromagnets to generate forces on said rotor to propel the same in a forward direction when the forces of said stator permanent magnets on said rotor magnets urge said rotor in a backward direction, said rotor permanent magnets having identical horseshoe magnets similarly mounted on said rotor whereby the North poles of said magnets are circularly aligned around said rotor periphery and the South poles of said magnets are also circularly aligned, said stator permanent magnets being composed of adjacent pairs of horseshoe magnets whose poles are of opposite polarity and are circularly aligned with the poles of said rotor permanent magnets, said electromagnets having like poles when energized and consisting of first and second laterally-spaced sets, each aligned circularly with said rotor and stator permanent magnet poles, and said electromagnets of the first set which attract the rotor magnets when energized being spaced forwardly a small amount substantially less than the dimension of one pole in the direction of rotor rotation relative to said electromagnets of the second set which repulse said rotor permanent magnets when energized.