b1shmu63 said:
OK, now that we have that cleared up. As an inventor technologist I can tell you that what we see in that other inventors hands is a proof of concept prototype suitable for patent application.......period. There could easily be several million dollars between that and a useful transmission. That is why most inventors die poor. Statistically only one percent profit from their inventions. It is believed that the inventor of the Diesel commited suicide (some contemporaries claimed that the diesel cycle was not actually an invention at all) and Bell claimed that he wished he had never invented the telephone, such were the intensity of the suits brought against him. An inventor of a thermal management system had spent 2 million defending his patent when last I spoke to him and and recieved death threats! If you have deep pockets and are doing this for etherial reasons, by all means persue it, but go into this with your eyes open. Been there, got the "T" shirt etc..... .
I'm actually targetting more of a inventors competition that'll give me $100000 if I do good. That's all I want. And that should easily cover the expense for a patent. And if things start to get out of hand later on, the worst that can happen is for me to give up the right to my patent.
b1shmu63 said:
The weight of the Prius electric motor doesn't count, as the Prius would not be a hybrid without it! The limitation of the IMA system is having to drag the gasoline engine allong with the motor. .
Of course it counts. Face it, the only real advantage of the electric motor is that is can recover the energy from braking. And that's what Honda is doing. In addition, it can help the car in acceleration because the engine is the least efficient at that. And that's exactly what Honda did, and they did it with a small, light motor.
Toyota used a much bigger motor and an extra generator, so it's an CVT by itself. How can you ignore the couple of hundreds pound of difference? You are telling me the Honda Insight is not a hybrid...
The most ideal transmission for hybrid would be Honda's approach, use a small light motor to do what hybrids do best. And for the rest of time, an efficient, light, geared mechanical CVT that can make the engine work at its optimum.
b1shmu63 said:
Your transmission would not work with Toyota hybrids and would not overcome the engine dragging of the IMA system. .
We are not talking about "my" transmission here. You don't know anything about my transmission. It has changed drammatically ever since I posted last time. We are talking about someone else's right now.
b1shmu63 said:
Although your idea may prove usefull in other areas I suspect that power transmission in cars will look radically different in the future due to a transition fron fossil fuels to electricity. A one or two speed trasmission may prove ideal.
Not for a couple of decades.
And beside, I wasn't targetting cars in the first place. I was interested in semis. You know how much those things shift in accelerating?