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Peru: Blind Engineer is awarded for his invention. Creates a system capable to move a ship with a car engine.
- Fernando Sixto Ramos has been awarded by the International Exhibition of Inventions held in Switzerland for their work.
- Consists of a "power transmitting system" that transfers the force of a motor shaft to another continuously, multiplying its potency.
- His invention could help solve the global energy problem.
Fernando Sixto Ramos, a Peruvian engineer blind 63, shot to fame in his country this week after receiving an international award for creating a system that could solve the global energy problem by multiplying the force generated by a motor many times as you like .
With the "force multiplier system", an invention he devised 15 years ago, as he lost vision, this humble engineer won the bronze medal in the category of mechanical and industrial processes of the fortieth edition of the International Exhibition of Inventions held in Geneva (Switzerland) last week.
You create an action and reaction. The force transgressest the other axis, then multiply, and so continuamente Ramos explained that his system is "capable of moving a ship with the engine of a car" and is based on two parallel shafts whose centers are connected to the end of filming a bar connecting the two, in turn, contains in the middle two shootings "des centrics" varying its center of gravity.
This allows the application of movement on one axis, the other rotates in reverse and "return the force times the first, which also generates an external force that can magnify" if you connect other side to repeat the same action .
"It's that simple. You create an action and reaction. Transgressest force the other axis, then multiply, and so continuously," Ramos said simply.
The system is exponential because "an engine of a horse can be multiplied by twenty, and then, for forty to have 800 horses," since it depends on variables such as wheelbase, mass, diameter, eccentricity and direction, that "the greater, the greater the increased strength."
An idea concocted while losing sight
Its simplicity is in classical mechanics, with the lever of Archimedes and the parallels of Tales: "It varies the gravity of a body to fall and the force of falling increases with a lever for transmission to the other axis. It's like Kung Fu. you use the opponent's strength to overcome it, "he said.
Ramos conceived the idea 15 years ago, when the disguised hydraulic pump and the other engineers in his company were unable to understand its operation to remove it.
A German university has been interested in the project but their applications RamosSin beyond a water pump, a car or a tractor, as it "could be applied to power plants, hydroelectric or wind mills" that would increase their power, to to "the madness of wind power the mill to other mills move."
"This can reduce the cost of desalinating or purifying water," added the engineer, who said that "you can save the planet if we all only because ideas change the world."
"With the beginning of the multiplier benefit all developing countries have cheaper energy and advanced energy would solve their problems because they are dedicated to optimizing the fuel, but had forgotten to optimize the mechanics, where there is a link that escapes "he said.
Ramos confirmed that a university in Germany, which in 2011 scheduled to close its nuclear plants, has been interested in your project, but said he first wants to develop in Peru "because there is not profit but service."
The blind engineer was late to Geneva for the jury to review his invention, which was behind a robotic hand and a marble cutter, but the interest among the participants convinced the judges to award the bronze medal.
The National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property (Indecopi) will try to expedite the process of patenting this system designed by a blind man he saw in the movement of forces a way to change the world. (Road to the patent on this link: patent )
