Title of Invention

A DRIVE SYSTEM FOR GENERATING POWER / ENERGY

Abstract A drive system for generating power / energy involving a swing means adapted for swinging motion with weight applied thereon; means to convert said swing motion into a rotary motion including gear means; means to operatively connect said rotary motion thus generated to drive / operate equipment /utility systems .Importantly the drive system would be adapted to integrate a conventional swing motion of a swing carrying a weight and the like to corresponding rotary motion, which can be effectively and advantageously used to drive any other powered systems and / or other utility devices or to even to generate alternative power such as electrical output by operating an alternator for current generation using the rotary output. The system is cost effective and very simple to obtain and therefore would have wide application / usage to operate variety of powered/energy driven gadgets / equipments.
Full Text FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a drive system and, in particular, to a drive system for
generating energy / power involving weight power for effective and advantageous use of
power capable or being generated by a swing especially a swing system carrying weight.
Importantly the drive system of the invention would be adapted to integrate a
conventional swing motion of a swing carrying a weight and the like to corresponding
rotary motion, which can be effectively and advantageously used to drive any other
powered systems and / or other utility devices or to even to generate alternative power
such as electrical output by operating an alternator for current generation using the
rotary output. The system is cost effective and very simple to obtain and therefore would
have wide application / usage to operate variety of powered/energy driven gadgets /
equipments.
BACKGROUND ART
It is well known that to operate various powered / energy driven gadgets / equipments,
it is important to supply the required power as input to the unit to be driven, as
otherwise, there can be no functional output. Thus it is well known that to drive any
gadget or operatory system it is important to provide necessary input power otherwise
the system can never work.
The power input is, therefore, crucial and due to the complexity and the wide variety of
equipments made available the consumption of power is immense and this has lead to a
situation were power source is found to be essential on one hand and its demand making
it cost extensive on the other hand. Such scarcity and expense involved in power
generation and the consequential high tariffs of power has made it is important to look
for some alternative to the conventional power sources and to make its effective use in
driving / operating various unit / gadgets.
Moreover, apart from the scarcity and expenses involved in the generation of the power,
due to its technical complexity in generation, usually the power sources / generating
units are available and serve the demands of the urban location and the metropolitan
cities. As far as the rural sector is concerned although there has also been demands for
power there for regular use, suitable sources of power for operating apart form various
gadget / equipments to operate systems of basic human needs such as fans, lights,
pumps etc. there has been not much of effective development to meet such power
requirement by way of a simple and cost effective system which can be applied and used
even in rural not so developed locations.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
It is thus the basic object of the present Invention to provide for an alternative and cost
effective means for generation of power which would be suitable to drive various
equipment / gadgets simply and cost effectively.
Another object of the present invention is directed to provide a simple and alternative
means for generation of power involving conventional input power which can be readily
and easily provided in remote location such as rural and village areas.
Another object of the present Invention is directed to provide a system for simple and
alternative means for generation of power using a simple input source such as a swing
system which can be almost readily and easily made available anywhere including in
remote rural areas.
Yet another object of the present invention is directed to serve the much required
present day need for alternative and cost effective sources of power to make it available
simply and cost effectively for advantageous and effective use by one and all and
thereby in effect meeting the public demand of cost effective and alternative power
sources for use in driving various day to day utility equipment / gadgets including the
gadget of regular use such as lights and fans etc.
Yet further object of the present invention is directed to provided a system for simple
and cost effective alternative power generation which can be used by any ordinary
person without the need for any specialized skill / knowledge and therefore make the
process for generation of power convenient and comfortable for wide scale use /
application.
SUMMARY OF THE INVETION
Thus according to basic aspect of the present invention there is provided
A drive system for generating power / energy comprising:
a swing means adapted for swinging motion having a weight applied thereon and
a drive unit to activate the same operatively connected thereto;
means to convert said swing motion into a rotary motion including gear means ;
means to operatively connect said rotary motion thus generated to drive /operate
equipment /utility systems.
In the above system of the invention the said means to convert said swing motion into a
rotary motion including gear means comprise accessories including said gear system.
Importantly, the rotary motion output is dependent upon various factors including the
weight applied to the swing means. The effective weight is dependent on the lever rod
distance from the weight disposition and the central rod being driven. The system is
adapted to generate the driving rotary motion as long as the swing means continue to be
activated.
In accordance with a preferred aspect of the invention, the drive system comprises drive
unit to activate the swing means. In particular, according to such preferred aspect said
swing means is activated by cooperating means / system adapted to provide movement
to the weight carrying swing means.
In accordance with an aspect of the invention the said swing means comprise a pair of
vertically disposed lever rods supporting a platform carrying weight at its lower end and
supported at the top by a horizontally disposed central rod, said central rod operatively
connected to accessory / gear means and the latter operatively connected to any
selected power driven unit. The central rod is preferably supported on bearings and
operatively connected to gear / accessory system.
In accordance with yet further preferred aspect the drive system comprises
said central rod operatively connected to a main big spur gear which in turn is connected
to two small spur gears which are driven opposite to one another, said two small gears
are further operatively connected to a respective cyde gear means, each said cycle gear
means operatively connected to a respective free wheel gears connected by chain drive
means, said free wheel gears supporting a rotatable shaft means which rotates due to
the corresponding motion of free wheel gears transmitted by said cycle gears.
In accordance with yet further aspect the system comprises mechanized drive for the
swing means.
In accordance with a preferred aspect the said system for the mechanized drive for the
swing means comprise supporting said swing means in a top frame member, said top
frame member being in turn supported with respect to a bottom frame with intermediate
spring, means and a drive system operatively connected to provide the top frame with
an upward and downward motion whereby the weight on the swing activates the swing
means. The drive system preferably indudes a motor operatively connected to a shaft to
drive a cam member to activate said up and down motion of the top frame.
It would be apparent for the above that the system of the invention on one hand meets
the required need for simple and cost effective means for the generation of power to
drive various units / gadgets and on the other hand utilizes in such power generation a
simple swing means.
The swing means can be adapted to facilitate carrying the required weight to achieve the
swing motion on slight displacement of the weighted swing and provide for a very simple
and cost effective conversion of the power generated by the swing into a rotary motion
which can be readily adapted to drive any power driven system such as a fan or to light
a lamp.
In order to facilitate automatized and less manual intervention in generation of power
using the system of the invention in accordance with a preferred aspect of the invention
there is proposed a simple and cost effective co-operative means which can be activated
to bring in action the swing motion of the weighted swing used by the system of the
invention. Such a system can be a simple cam driven motor to provide a slight
displacement motion to the weighted swing which in turn following the system of the
invention is adapted to transform the swing motion into desired rotary motion useful as
input power to various equipments / gadgets.
It would thus be possible by way of the drive system of the invention to effective use the
power generated by a swing and transform and effectively use the weight power applied
to the swing to produce / generate energy in a different form such as by rotary motion of
a shaft which can be used for cost effective power input to drive other system.
Importantly, the invention avoids and provides a cost effective alternative to the
conventional cost extensive energy sources such as petrol, diesel, coal and atomic
energy which have apart from high cost other limitations to continue to serve as a viable
power sources especially to people who may not be able to afford such conventional
expensive energy sources. Moreover it is important to mention that such conventional
energy sources presently available apart from being cost effective and not affordable to
all are known to be associated with environment pollution and therefore have further
limitations in its wide scale and long term use. The drive system of the invention which
utilizes simple mechanical power generated by a swing is directed to benefit power
generation by way of very simple and cost effective drive system.
The drive system of the invention which is basically developed using the swing as the
power source is adapted to produce power of capacities which would depend upon the
shape , size and the weight applied to the swing. The distance from the central rod to
the disposition of the weight in the swing also has relevance as to the power generated
by the system.
Thus the accessory / gear means used in the system is adapted to convert to and fro
motion of the swing into a rotary motion. As mentioned above the power generated by
the swing system by way of the rotary motion output would also depend upon weight
applied to the swing.
While the above discussed drive system of the invention is adapted to generated power
to drive any equipment, advantageously, it is also possible to utilize the transformed
rotary motion generated by the system by operative connection to alternator to enable
generation of current.
In the above system of the invention the power continue to be generated and the energy
output will continue as long as the weight containing swing continue to oscillate. In order
to stop the generation of power the swing action of the system need to be only stopped.
It is also possible to achieve such swing motion of the weighted swing to be attended by
way of co-operating mechanized / automatised units. For the purpose simple drive may
be used to provide slight displacement to the weighted swing to continue the swing
action. Simple motor and operative shaft and cam mechanism can be used to achieve
such purposes.
It would thus be apparent that the drive system of the invention not only involves very
simple and cost effective means for the generation of the energy but the same is also
environment friendly and would therefore serve the present day need for environment
friendly power sources.
The details of invention its object and advantages are explained hereunder in greater
detail in relation to non limiting exemplary illustrations as per accompanying figure
wherein :-
Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of an embodiment of the swing based drive system of
the present invention;
Figure 2 illustrates a swing drive system of the invention involving the motorized driving
unit to activate the swing for generation of energy;
Figure 3A is an illustration of the back view of the swing drive system of Figure 2;
Figure 3B is an illustration of the side view of the swing drive system of Figure 2;and
Figure 3C is an illustration of the front view of the swing drive system of Figure 2.
References is first invited to Figure 1 which illustrates in detail schematically the
arrangement of the drive system in accordance with the present invention. As illustrated
in said Figure the system basically involves a swing (IS) which is supported with respect
to a frame (IF) .The swing (1) comprises of pair of vertically disposed lever rods (1A)
which at the bottom support a platform (IB) for carrying a weight to be applied to the
swing and at its top is operatively connected to a central rod (ID). The central rod is
maintained rotatable by bearing block (IE).
In order to convert the swing action of the swing means (1), into a rotary output, the
central rod (ID) is shown operatively connected to accessories (2A) including the gear
system. In particular as apparent further from said figure the central rod (ID) is
connected at an end to a big spur gear (2BS) which in turn operatively connected to a
pair of small spur gears (2SS). The rotary motion of the big spur gear (2BS) on working
of the central rod by the swing movement operates the two small gears (2SS) adapted
to rotate opposite to one another. Two small gears (2SS) are in turn operatively
connected to cycle gears (2C1) and (2C2). The cycle gears are further operatively linked
to free wheel gear (4F1 & 4F2) which support a shaft member (4C). The rotation of small
spur gears (2SS) which are operatively connected to the cyde gear (2C1 & 2C2) provide
for rotary motion the free wheel (4F1 & 4F2) and in turn the shaft (4C).
Thus in effect the swing motion of the swing means (IS) by way of accessory / gear
system(2A) translate the swing motion into a rotary motion. As further illustrated in said
figure the rotary shaft can also be operatively linked through gear box system (5) to
drive any equipment / device with input power of the rotary shaft. Such equipment /
system indude possible operative connection to alternator means (6) to generate
current.
Reference is now invited to accompanying Figure 2 which illustrate in accordance with a
preferred aspect the system of the invention induding an operative mechanized unit
(1M) for activating the swing means. As dearly apparent from Figure 2 and Figures 3A to
3C while the basic system involving the swing (IS) and the accessory / gear mechanism
(2A) uses to generate power / energy discussed in relation to the Figure 1 above
remains the same.In this embodiment, the means for providing the mechanized
displacement of the swing to fadlitate the power generation is the added feature in this
embodiment.
In particular as shown in said Figure 2, for the purpose, the frame supporting the swing
(IF) is placed on a bottom frame (1MB) with supporting spring means (IMS) there
between the top frame (IF) and bottom frame (1MB) .As further illustrated in said figure
by way of a simple motor (lMM)and operative shaft (IMS) and cam (IMC) the top frame
(IF) can be angularly displaced were by due to the weight in the swing the later attains
the momentum to generate the swing action and thereby generated power using the
system of the invention as explained in relation to Figure 1.
The mechanized displacement system used is shown in greater detail in accompanying
Figures 3A to 3C.
As clearly apparent from the above figures the top frame is situated on the bottom frame
such that the top frame can move up and down as illustrated in the side view. The spring
means at the other end is adapted to maintain parallel level to facilitate the swing action.
The front view shows in detail the disposition of two bearing blocks fitted with shaft at
the bottom frame. At position C the shaft is shown fitted with cam and a big bearing.
The bearing is fitted with the top frame such that it moves free as far as required. Thus
when the driven unit move the top frame it is adapted to move the swing fitted with
respect to the top frame to thereby initiate the process of generation of power / energy
by converting the swing motion into rotary motion as a suitable power / energy input to
drive any other equipment / utility device such as to run a fan or light a lamp or
operatively connect to an alternator to generate current.
I Claim:
1. A drive system for generating power / energy comprising:
a swing means adapted for swinging motion having a weight applied thereon and
a drive unit to activate the same operatively connected thereto;
means to convert said swing motion into a rotary motion including gear means ;
means to operatively connect said rotary motion thus generated to drive /operate
equipment /utility systems.
2. A drive system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said means to convert said swing
motion into a rotary motion including gear means comprise accessories including
said gear system.
3. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 or 2 wherein the rotary motion is dependent upon the weight applied to the swing means.
4. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 3 wherein the system is
adapted to generate the driving rotary motion as long as the swing means
continue to be activated.
5. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 4 wherein said swing means is
activated by cooperating means / system adapted to provide movement to the
weight carrying swing means.
6. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 5 wherein the weight on the
swing means is selected to achieve the desired conversion of swing motion into
the rotary motion involving said accessories.
7. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 6 wherein said swing means
comprise a pair of vertically disposed lever rods supporting a platform carrying
weight at its lower end and supported at the top by a horizontally disposed
central rod, said central rod operatively connected to accessory / gear means and
the latter output means operatively connected to any desired power driven unit.
8. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 6 wherein the weighted swing
movement of the swing means is adapted to be converted into desired higher
power.
9. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 7 wherein the effective weight
of the swing system is dependent on the lever rod distance from the weight
disposition and the position of the central rod.
10. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 9 wherein the central rod is
supported on bearings and operatively connected to gear / accessory system.
11. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 10 comprising
said central rod operatively connected to a main spur gear which in turn is
connected to two small spur gears which are driven opposite to one another, said
two small spur gears are further operatively connected to a respective cycle gear
means, each said cycle gear means operatively connected to a respective free
wheel gear connected by chain drive means said free wheel gears supporting a
rotatable shaft means which rotates due to the corresponding motion of free
wheel gears and its operative link to the cycle gears being driven by the swing
action.
12. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 11 comprising system for
providing mechanized drive for the swing means.
13. A drive system as claimed in claim 12 wherein the system for the mechanized
drive for the swing means comprise supporting said swing means in a top frame
member, said top frame member being in turn supported with respect to a
bottom frame with intermediate spring, means and a drive system operatively
connected to provide the top frame with an upward and downward / angular
motion whereby the weight on the swing activates the swing means.
14. A drive system as claimed in claim 13 wherein the drive means comprise a motor
operatively connected to a shaft to drive a cam member to activate said up and
down / angular motion of the top frame.
15. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 14 comprising said swing
comprising of pair of vertically disposed lever rods which at the bottom support a
platform for carrying a weight to be applied to the swing and at its top is
operatively connected to a central rod , said central rod maintained rotatable by
bearing blocks at its ends;
said central rod operatively connected to accessories including the gear system
comprising the central rod connected at an end to a big spur gear which in turn is
operatively connected to a pair of small spur gears, the rotary motion of the big
spur gear on working of the central rod by the swing movement operates the two
small gears adapted to rotate opposite to one another, said two small gears in
turn operatively connected to a respective cycle gear, said cycle gears are further
operatively linked to a corresponding free wheel gear which support a shaft
member, the rotation of small spur gears which are operatively connected to the
cycle gear providing for rotary motion of the free wheel and in turn the shaft.
16. A drive system as claimed in claim 15 wherein said rotary shaft is operatively
linked through gear box system to drive any equipment / device with input power
of the rotary shaft.
17. A drive system as claimed in claim 16 wherein said equipment / system comprise
operative connection to run a fan, light or an alternator means to generate
current.
18. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 17 comprising an operative
mechanized unit for activating the swing means.
19. A drive system as claimed in claim 18 wherein said operative mechanized unit for
activating the swing means comprise a frame supporting the swing disposed on a
bottom frame with supporting spring means there between the top frame and
bottom frame, a simple motor means and operative shaft and cam adapted to
cooperate such that the top frame can be angularly displaced wereby due to the
weight in the swing the later attains the momentum to generate the swing action
and thereby generated power.
20. A drive system as claimed in claim 19 wherein said spring means is adapted to
maintain parallel level to facilitate the swing action.
21. A drive system as claimed in anyone of claims 17 to 19 comprising bearing blocks
fitted with shaft at the bottom frame.
22. A drive system substantially as hereindescribed and illustrated with reference to
the accompanying figures and its application / use a drive system to operate
various power driven units.


A drive system for generating power / energy involving a swing means
adapted for swinging motion with weight applied thereon; means to convert said
swing motion into a rotary motion including gear means; means to operatively
connect said rotary motion thus generated to drive / operate equipment /utility
systems .Importantly the drive system would be adapted to integrate a conventional
swing motion of a swing carrying a weight and the like to corresponding rotary
motion, which can be effectively and advantageously used to drive any other
powered systems and / or other utility devices or to even to generate alternative
power such as electrical output by operating an alternator for current generation
using the rotary output. The system is cost effective and very simple to obtain and
therefore would have wide application / usage to operate variety of powered/energy
driven gadgets / equipments.

Documents:

813-KOL-2004-(03-02-2012)-CORRESPONDENCE.pdf

813-KOL-2004-(03-02-2012)-FORM 27.pdf

813-kol-2004-abstract.pdf

813-kol-2004-claims.pdf

813-KOL-2004-CORRESPONDENCE 1.1.pdf

813-kol-2004-correspondence.pdf

813-kol-2004-description (complete).pdf

813-kol-2004-drawings.pdf

813-kol-2004-examination report.pdf

813-kol-2004-form 1.pdf

813-kol-2004-form 18.pdf

813-kol-2004-form 2.pdf

813-KOL-2004-FORM 27.pdf

813-kol-2004-form 3.pdf

813-kol-2004-pa.pdf

813-kol-2004-reply to examination report.pdf

813-kol-2004-specification.pdf


Patent Number 244891
Indian Patent Application Number 813/KOL/2004
PG Journal Number 52/2010
Publication Date 24-Dec-2010
Grant Date 23-Dec-2010
Date of Filing 14-Dec-2004
Name of Patentee JITENDRA KUMAR SHARMA
Applicant Address MASTURI, BILADPUR
Inventors:
# Inventor's Name Inventor's Address
1 JITENDRA KUMAR SHARMA MASTURI, BILADPUR, PIN CODE: 495551
PCT International Classification Number F03D 9/00
PCT International Application Number N/A
PCT International Filing date
PCT Conventions:
# PCT Application Number Date of Convention Priority Country
1 NA