1. A rotational movement multiplier apparatus comprising:
a support structure;
a lower platform rigidly connected to the support structure;
an upper platform rigidly connected to the support structure;
a support platform rigidly connected to the support structure;
one or more bushings connected to the lower end of the support structure;
a driver disc rigidly connected to a driver shaft;
a coupler connecting the driver shaft to a motor;
two or more rotor discs each rigidly connected to a corresponding rotor shaft rotatably connected to the support structure;
a first plurality of magnets rigidly connected to the driver disc and a second plurality of magnets rigidly connected to the rotor disc, wherein the driver disc is proximal to the two or more rotor discs and there is a predetermined distance between the driver disc and at least two of the rotor discs, and wherein the first plurality of magnets and the second plurality of magnets are neodymium magnets; and
a third plurality of magnets rigidly connected to the lower end of the two or more rotor shafts magnetically levitating on a fourth plurality of magnets rigidly connected to the support platform
wherein each driver disc and the two or more rotor discs comprise a plurality of cavities on a perimeter of the discs, and the plurality of cavities house a plurality of magnets.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driver shaft is formed of stainless steel has a length of about 35.0 cm and a diameter of about 2.54 cm.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the two or more rotor discs are magnetically coupled to the driver disc.
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the lower platform and the upper platform have a thickness of about 19.0 mm, with each side measuring about 51.0 cm in length.
5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bushing is made of at least one of synthetic rubber and polyurethane.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driver disc and the two or more rotor disc have a diameter of about 20 cm and a thickness of about 3.77 cm.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driver disc is situated in the center of the lower platform and the upper platform, and four rotor discs are uniform in size, are proximate to the driver disc and are evenly spaced on the perimeter of the driver disc.
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the lower platform and the upper platform each have a square shapes, are made of aluminum, and are separated from each other by a distance of about 15 cm.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each driver disc and the two or more rotor discs are connected to a corresponding shafts by spline groove and a plurality of c-clips are inserted in circumference grooves.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the each driver disc and the two or more rotor discs comprise twenty cavities, each cavity housing one magnet and at least one washer.
11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of washers and magnets are coupled to the driver disc, or to two or more rotor disc, with a screw.
12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the magnets are placed in an alternating polarity pattern on the driver disc and on each of the two or more rotor discs.
13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the magnets have a diameter of about 2.54 cm and a height of about 1.27 cm.
14. A system for multiplying rotational movement comprising:
a motor;
an external power source; and
a rotational movement multiplier comprising:
a support structure;
a lower platform rigidly connected to the support structure;
an upper platform rigidly connected to the support structure;
a support platform rigidly connected to the support structure;
one or more bushings connected to the lower end of the support structure;
a driver disc rigidly connected to a driver shaft;
a coupler connecting the driver shaft to the motor;
two or more rotor discs each rigidly connected to a corresponding rotor shaft rotatably connected to the support structure; and
a first plurality of magnets rigidly connected to the driver disc and a second plurality of magnets rigidly connected to the rotor disc, wherein the driver disc is proximal to the two or more rotor discs and the distance between the driver disc and at least two of the rotor discs is about 23 mm and wherein each driver disc and the two or more rotor discs comprise a plurality of cavities on a perimeter of the discs, and the plurality of cavities house a plurality of magnets.
15. The system of claim 14, wherein the motor is rigidly coupled to the rotational movement multiplier apparatus and transmits a rotational movement to the rotational movement multiplier.
16. The system of claim 14, wherein the motor is powered by the external power source.
17. The system of claim 14, wherein the lower end of the two or more rotor shafts are rigidly connected to a third plurality of magnets and are magnetically levitating on a fourth plurality of magnets rigidly connected to the support platform.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. An image display method including the steps of:
preparing a reversible image display medium including:
two sheets opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween;
one or more developer accommodating cells formed between said two sheets, and each having a periphery surrounded by a partition wall; and
dry developer contained in each of said cell(s), said dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developer particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities, and
at least two kinds of said dry developer particles forming the dry developer within said developer accommodating cell(s) being frictionally charged to have the charged polarities different from each other;
displaying an image by forming a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordance with the image to be displayed and thereby moving the developer particles, with the developer particles in each of said cell(s) being in the frictionally charged state; and
stirring said developer in said reversible image display medium in said image display step.
2. The image display method according to claim 1, wherein
an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be formed is formed on an outer surface of one of the two sheets of said reversible image display medium, said electrostatic field is formed in said image display step based on said electrostatic latent image simultaneously with or after the formation of said electrostatic latent image, and the stirring of said developer is performed simultaneously with and(or) before the formation of said electrostatic field.
3. The image display method according to claim 1, wherein
an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be formed is formed on an outer surface of one of the two sheets of said reversible image display medium, said electrostatic field is formed in said image display step based on said electrostatic latent image simultaneously with the formation of said electrostatic latent image, and the stirring of said developer is performed simultaneously with the formation of said electrostatic field.
4. The image display method according to claim 1, wherein
an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be formed is formed on an outer surface of one of the two sheets of said reversible image display medium, said electrostatic field is formed in said image display step based on said electrostatic latent image after the formation of said electrostatic latent image, and the stirring of said developer is performed after the formation of said electrostatic latent image and before or simultaneously with the formation of said electrostatic field.
5. The image display method according to claim 1, wherein
an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be formed is formed on an outer surface of one of the two sheets of said reversible image display medium, said electrostatic field is formed in said image display step based on said electrostatic latent image simultaneously with or after the formation of said electrostatic latent image, and the stirring of said developer is performed before the formation of said electrostatic latent image.
6. The image display method according to claim 2, wherein
said formation of the electrostatic field based on the electrostatic latent image is performed by applying a predetermined potential for the electrostatic field formation to the sheet opposite to said sheet for carrying the electrostatic latent image.
7. The image display method according to claim 3, wherein
said formation of the electrostatic field based on the electrostatic latent image is performed by applying a predetermined potential for the electrostatic field formation to the sheet opposite to said sheet for carrying the electrostatic latent image.
8. The image display method according to claim 4, wherein
said formation of the electrostatic field based on the electrostatic latent image is performed by applying a predetermined potential for the electrostatic field formation to the sheet opposite to said sheet for carrying the electrostatic latent image.
9. The image display method according to claim 5, wherein
said formation of the electrostatic field based on the electrostatic latent image is performed by applying a predetermined potential for the electrostatic field formation to the sheet opposite to said sheet for carrying the electrostatic latent image.
10. The image display method according to claim 1, wherein
said reversible image display medium includes an electrode formed on an inner surface of one of the sheets and an electrode formed on an inner surface of the other sheet and opposed to the electrode; said image display step is performed by applying a voltage across said opposite electrodes to form the electrostatic field; and the stirring of said developer is performed before or simultaneously with the formation of the electrostatic field.
11. An image display method including the steps of:
preparing a reversible image display medium including:
two sheets opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween;
one or more developer accommodating cells formed between said two sheets, and each having a periphery surrounded by a partition wall; and
dry developer contained in each of said cell(s),
said dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developer particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities, and
at least two kinds of said dry developer particles forming the dry developer within said developer accommodating cell(s) being frictionally charged to have the charged polarities different from each other;
displaying an image by forming a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordance with the image to be displayed and thereby moving the developer particles, with the developer particles in each of said cell(s) being in the frictionally charged state; and
performing image erasing processing on said reversible image display medium prior to said image display step.
12. An image display method including the steps of:
preparing a reversible image display medium including:
two sheets opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween;
one or more developer accommodating cells formed between said two sheets, and each having a periphery surrounded by a partition wall; and
dry developer contained in each of said cell(s),
said dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developer particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities, and
at least two kinds of said dry developer particles forming the dry developer within said developer accommodating cell(s) being frictionally charged to have the charged polarities different from each other; and
displaying an image by forming a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordance with the image to be displayed and thereby moving the developer particles, with the developer particles in each of said cell(s) being in the frictionally charged state, wherein said electrostatic field formed in the image display step is formed based on an electrostatic latent image formed in accordance with the image to be displayed on an outer surface of one of said two sheets.
13. The image display method according to claim 12, wherein
said electrostatic latent image is directly formed on said sheet surface by a direct electrostatic latent image forming device.
14. The image display method according to claim 12, wherein
said electrostatic latent image is formed by transferring an electrostatic latent image formed outside the medium by an external electrostatic latent image forming device onto the surface of said sheet.
15. An image display method including the steps of:
preparing a reversible image display medium including:
two sheets opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween;
one or more developer accommodating cells formed between said two sheets, and each having a periphery surrounded by a partition wall; and
dry developer contained in each of said cell(s),
said dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developer particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities, and
at least two kinds of said dry developer particles forming the dry developer within said developer accommodating cell(s) being frictionally charged to have the charged polarities different from each other;
uniformly charging a sheet surface of said reversible image display medium to a predetermined potential; and
displaying an image by forming an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be displayed on said sheet surface charged in said charging step, and forming, based on said electrostatic latent image, a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordance with the image to be displayed and thereby moving said developer particles to display the image.
16. The image display method according to claim 15, wherein
the electrostatic latent image on said sheet is directly formed on the sheet surface charged in said charging step.
17. The image display method according to claim 15, wherein
the electrostatic latent image on said sheet is formed by transferring an electrostatic latent image formed outside said reversible image display medium on an electrostatic latent image carrier onto the sheet surface charged in said charging step.
18. An image display method including the steps of:
preparing a reversible image display medium including insulating liquid of a predetermined color, charged developer particles exhibiting a color different from the color of said insulating liquid and dispersed in said liquid, and two sheets opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween, said insulating liquid and said charged developer particles being confined between the two sheets;
uniformly charging a sheet surface of said reversible image display medium to a predetermined potential; and
displaying an image by forming an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be displayed on the sheet surface charged in said charging step, and forming, based on said electrostatic latent image, a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordance with the image to be displayed and thereby moving said charged developer particles to display the image.
19. The image display method according to claim 18, wherein
the electrostatic latent image on said sheet is directly formed on the sheet surface charged in said charging step.
20. The image display method according to claim 18, wherein
the electrostatic latent image on said sheet is formed by transferring an electrostatic latent image formed outside said reversible image display medium on an electrostatic latent image carrier onto the sheet surface charged in said charging step.
21. An image display method including the steps of:
preparing a reversible image display medium including spherical developer particles each having an outer surface formed of halves being different in color and amount of absorbable ions from each other, surrounded by an insulating liquid layer, respectively, and buried in an insulating property holding medium;
uniformly charging a sheet surface of said reversible image display medium to a predetermined potential; and
displaying an image by forming an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be displayed on the medium surface charged in said charging step, and controlling the directions of the surfaces of the different colors of said spherical developer particles by forming, based on said electrostatic latent image, a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordance with the image to be displayed.
22. The image display method according to claim 21, wherein
the electrostatic latent image on said reversible image display medium is directly formed on the sheet surface charged in said charging step.
23. The image display method according to claim 21, wherein
the electrostatic latent image on said reversible image display medium is formed by transferring an electrostatic latent image formed outside said reversible image display medium on an electrostatic latent image carrier onto the sheet surface charged in said charging step.
24. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a reversible image display medium including two sheets opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween; one or more developer accommodating cells formed between said two sheets, and each having a periphery surrounded by a partition wall; and dry developer contained in each of said cell(s), said dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developer particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities, and being in a frictionally charged state, including;
an electric field forming device for forming a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordane with the image to be displayed and thereby moving said developer particles to display the image, with the developer particles in each of said cell(s) being in the frictionally charged state; and
a stirring device for stirring the developer in said reversible image display medium, wherein
said electric field forming device includes an electrostatic latent image forming device for forming an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image to be formed on an outer surface of one of the two sheets of said reversible image display medium, and said electrostatic field can be formed based on the electrostatic latent image formed by said electrostatic latent image forming device simultaneously with or after the formation of the electrostatic latent image, and
said stirring device is opposed to a portion of a reversible image display medium transporting path in or upstream to the electrostatic field forming region of said electric field forming device in the relative transporting direction of said reversible image display medium with respect to said electric field forming device.
25. The image forming apparatus according to claim 24, wherein
said electric field forming device includes a device for applying a predetermined potential for said electrostatic field formation to the sheet opposite to the sheet of said reversible image display medium for forming said electrostatic latent image.
26. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a reversible image display medium including two sheets opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween; one or more developer accommodating cells formed between said two sheets, and each having a periphery surrounded by a partition wall; dry developer contained in each of said cell(s); an electrode formed on an inner surface of one of said sheets; and an electrode formed on an inner surface of the other sheet and opposed to said electrode, said dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developer particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities, and at least two kinds of said dry developer particles forming the dry developer within said developer accommodating cell(s) being frictionally charged to have the charged polarities different from each other, including;
an electric field forming device for forming a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordane with the image to be displayed by applying a voltage across said opposite electrodes and thereby moving said developer particles to display the image; and
a stirring device for stirring the developer in said reversible image display medium, wherein
said stirring device is opposed to a portion of a reversible image display medium transporting path in or upstream to the electrostatic field forming region of said electric field forming device in the relative transporting direction of said reversible image display medium with respect to said electric field forming device.
27. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a reversible image display medium including two sheets opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween; one or more developer accommodating cells formed between said two sheets, and each having a periphery surrounded by a partition wall; and dry developer contained in each of said cell(s), said dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developer particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities, and at least two kinds of said dry developer particles forming the dry developer within said developer accommodating cell(s) being frictionally charged to have the charged polarities different from each other, including;
an electric field forming device for forming a predetermined electrostatic field for each pixel in accordane with the image to be displayed and thereby moving said developer particles to display the image, with the developer particles in each of said cell(s) being in the frictionally charged state; and
an image erasing device for performing image erasing processing on said reversible image display medium, said image erasing device being opposed to a portion of a reversible image display medium transporting path upstream to said electric field forming device in the relative transporting direction of said reversible image display medium with respect to said electric field forming device.
28. The image forming apparatus according to claim 27, wherein
said image erasing device includes an electric field forming device for forming an electric field moving said developer particles forming said developer in said reversible image display medium.
29. The image forming apparatus according to claim 27, wherein
said image erasing device includes a stirring device for applying a stirring force to said developer particles forming said developer in said reversible image display medium.
30. The image forming apparatus according to claim 28, wherein
said image erasing device includes a stirring device for applying a stirring force to said developer particles forming said developer in said reversible image display medium.
31. A reversible image display medium, wherein spherical developer particles each having an outer surface formed of halves being different in color and amount of absorbable ions from each other are surrounded by an insulating liquid layer,respectively, and are buried in an insulating property holding medium.