PLTW Engineering
£1.3 Patent Summary Sheet
Instructions
In your engineering notebook or on the attached form document each patent you find related
to the mgjor project problem you have identified. Your instructor may want you to print or
partially print the related patent.
Source (APA format):
Shengbo, Z. (2011). U.S. Patent No. US20110121676A1. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office.
Patent Number:
us20110121676A1
Patent Summa
This is a motor that uses magnets to rotate and contributes to speed and velocity ofthe car.
In the images shown you can see how the motor can work against and with the current.
Patent Critique:
Its similar to our problem because it involves magnets and how to assemble it. Good
attributes isthe way the magnets are assembled, bad attributes would be it does create
‘energy but i the way it moves it does seem to create a force that could be transformed into
energy.
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