Hojo Motor is a Scam!

The Hojo Motor is a scam. If you purchased the Hojo Motor plans before reading this post, I'm sorry, you got scammed. If you purchase the Hojo Motor plans after reading this post, you are dumb. Plain and simple. I'm sorry to use harsh words here, but sometimes it's necessary to be blunt in order to get your point across.

We've been down this path before, with the Magniwork scam. In fact, Magniwork has been our most popular post, and has led us to post Renewable Energy Scams. As you can see from that post, there is no shortage of scams out there trying to take advantage of the energy ignorant.

I don't care that on the web page for the Hojo plan they show some patents (see the bottom of this post for information regarding said patents) for a some kind of magnetic perpetual motion machine. I'm not even going to get into the discussion on the laws of thermodynamics. What I will tell you is if some kind of free energy generator was real, I would be the first person to have it. You wouldn't hear about some free energy generator from some Google ad, you would hear about it because the President is talking about it on the world stage. It would be the biggest breakthrough in the 21st century. And you think you are going to buy some plans for $49.97? (side note: ClickBank sells these plans along with many other scams, and they should be fined by the Federal Trade Commission)

Hank Mills wrote a great "Letter to Hojo Motor Plan Scammers" in which he stated:

Howard Johnson was a brilliant inventor. You got that one fact correct. However, his technologies were never fully developed, and were still very experimental when he died. Even if he was able to create motion in an experimental test rig (after hundreds or thousands of hours of work), it was not ready to power a home, an appliance, or even a very light load like a light bulb. The idea that someone could take plans for his device, and build a system capable of powering their home, is totally absurd. Unless of course, they had tens of thousands of dollars to spend, months to experiment just to make a motor self-sustain, and even more time and money to do the research and development needed to do anything practical with it.

Don't think we know what we're talking about? Fine, buy the plans and make a fool of yourself. For everyone else out there, focus your time on conserving energy , producing real clean energy, and living more sustainably.

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Regarding the Patent Claims, below is what I received from a friend who is a patent attorney:

First, if he got a patent on this "secret" invention that was just released, then it couldn't have been secret, since getting a patent means publicly disclosing the invention. Patents don't certify that free energy works, the patents simple certify that his magnetic motor works as a magnetic motor

Regarding the patents: I"ve pasted the first independent claim of each of the patents so you can start learning what patents really cover. The claims are the legal bounds of the patent and define what the inventor is actually protecting. As you will so, there is no language in any of these claims that says free energy, pertetual motion, etc.

4,151,431 patent expired in 1999.
It Claims: A permanent magnet motor comprising, in combination, a stator track defining a track direction and having first and second sides and composed of a plurality of track permanent magnets each having first and second poles of opposite polarity, said magnets being disposed in side-by-side relationship having a spacing between adjacent magnets and like poles defining said track sides, an elongated armature permanent magnet located on one of said track sides for relative movement thereto and in spaced relationship to said track side wherein an air gap exists between said armature magnet and said track magnets, said armature magnet having first and second poles of opposite polarity located at the opposite ends of said armature magnet defining the length thereof, the length of said armature magnet being disposed in a direction in general alignment with the direction of said track, the spacing of said armature magnet poles from said track associated side and the length of said armature magnet as related to the width and spacing of said track magnets in the direction of said track being such as to impose a continuous force on said armature magnet in said general direction of said track.

(THIS IS NOT CLAIMING A FREE ENERGY DEVICE, just a specific, very narrowly claimed type of motor)

4,877,983 Patent - expired in 2009
It Claims:
In combination with a movable armature, means for guiding movement of the armature along a predetermined path and a permanent armature magnet having magnetic poles of opposite polarity spaced from each other along said path to establish a magnetic field of limited extent movable with the armature and magnetic stator means for establishing a stationary magnetic flux zone along said path, the improvement comprising flux emitting surfaces of one polarity mounted on the stator means on opposite sides of said path for limiting said flux zone through which said path extends and means mounting the permanent armature magnet on the armature with the poles thereof orientated relative to said flux emitting surfaces on the stator means for unidirectionally propelling the armature along said path through the limited zone in response to magnetic interaction between the movable magnetic field and the limited flux zone, said magnetic stator means including a plurality of magnetic gate assemblies fixedly spaced from each other along said path and respectively establishing stationary magnetic fields, each of said gate assemblies including a plurality of interconnected bar magnets substantially bordering said limited flux zone exposing pole faces of opposite polarity in parallel spaced planes intersected by said path, and magnetic means connected to said interconnected bar magnets exposing one of the flux emitting surfaces of said one polarity perpendicular to said parallel planes for magnetic interaction of the stationary magnetic fields.

(AGAIN, NOT CLAIMING PERPETUAL MOTION, just a different motor configuration)

5,402,021 will expire 2015
It Claims:
A magnetic propulsion system comprising:

a vehicle having a rigidly attached magnetic armature, said magnetic armature including a first series of magnets positioned across said vehicle and extending generally from one lateral side of the vehicle to another lateral side of the vehicle, all of the magnets in said first series of magnets being generally parallel to one another;

a first magnetic wall disposed laterally adjacent said vehicle and extending longitudinally along a desired direction of vehicle travel, said first magnetic wall comprising a second series of magnets, each of the magnets in said second series having a particular size and a North-to-South axis pointing in the same direction as the desired direction of vehicle travel, each of said permanent magnets of said particular size in said second series being separated from the next successive permanent magnet in said second series by a thinner magnet, each of said thinner magnets having a pole-to-pole length which is shorter than the lateral width of said magnets of a particular size in said second series, said thinner magnets further having a North-to-South axis pointing perpendicular to the North-to-South axis of said magnets of a particular size in said second series and pointing generally toward a vehicle side of the first magnetic wall; and

a second magnetic wall disposed generally parallel to said first magnetic wall and laterally adjacent to said vehicle but opposite from said first magnetic wall, said second magnetic wall comprising a third series of magnets, each of said magnets in said third series having said particular size and a North-to-South axis pointing in an opposite direction from the desired direction of vehicle travel, each of the permanent magnets in said third series being separated from the next successive permanent magnet of said particular size in said third series by a thinner magnet, each of said thinner magnets in the second magnetic wall having a pole-to-pole length which is shorter than the lateral width of said magnets of a particular size in said third series, said thinner magnets in the second magnetic wall further having a North-to-South axis pointing in the same general direction as the North-to-South axis of the thinner magnets in the first magnetic wall;

wherein said first and second magnetic walls create magnetic fields which exert propelling forces on said armature and thereby cause the vehicle to accelerate in the desired direction of vehicle travel.

(claim and EXTREMELY narrow vehicle with some sort of magnetic propulsion motor, nothing more)

It is annoying how many people get up in arms about patents when they just take for granted what someone who is clearly also not a patent person tells them. Always always always read the claims of the patent before making any comments about what the patent supposedly covers.

Click here to learn why perpetual motion free energy machines don't work. Make any comments regarding perpetual motion on the post in the link. You can make HoJo scam comments below.

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Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 01/22/2012 - 05:17

Those are my real initials. I have a brother whose initials are W.E.T. so together we are . . . Thanks. It took me almost a half hour to find an actual scam revealing website. I accidentally found the HoJo motor on YouTube, and watched several of the short pieces about it. I remember the original magazine article there is a link to. (Yes I'm that old!) I was fascinated by what was so obviously a scam. In another tab using a different search engine I read the U.S. patents. I did not trust their link. Good luck. It takes a patent attorney to understand the gobbledegook. The one thing that hasn't been written is that they appear to be about motors using permanent magnets, with no electromagnets. This means it is not a normal electrical motor. In this case the work comes from two sources. First, the positioning of the moving part within the magnetic field by the operator. Second, only a bare possibility on the basis that the motor works to some extent, from demagnetizing the permanent magnets. In fact the person demonstrating the motor says he remagnitized the curved magnet then replaced it. A permanent magnet can magnetize any number of other items, but the work done is supplied by the person or machine in moving the unmagnetiezed items through the magnetic field. Whereas using an electromagnet the flow of electricity provides the work in making permanent magnets. I am, of course, using “work” in the scientific sense as the work done in aligning the internal magnetic fields to produce a permanent magnet. Note also the “permanent” is traditional, and really means long lasting. eeprom Jan. 19, 2012 7:18 pm gave http://www.mediafire.com/?7phj5z3u5b5aus5 to download the HoJo plans in PDF. I could not get a download; a message appeared about “repairing” the download, and a pop-up was blocked. I did not continue Is this in fact a legitimate website and download? As are others, I am puzzled by the lack of postings by people who have attempted to construct a HoJo motor. Although I am not going to try, philosophically I side with those who would like to SEE working (almost impossible) or non-working models. “Theoretically impossible” and “natural law” are merely appeals to authority, which science is supposed to reject. At a guess, fewer than we may think buy the plans; fewer still attempt to build anything, and even fewer actually construct something. Then, when they cannot get it to work, are so disgusted and embarrassed they want to forget the whole thing. I would still think someone, just for fun and to fully exposed the scam would do it and write it up. A high school science class would be a good example. As to thermodynamics (thermoGodamics as almost everyone learns) there is one 100% efficient, zero loss example. It is often cited by elementary and high school smart-Alec know-it-alls (me). It is a heater. ALL energy used is transformed into heat. There are non-thermodynamic processes, but unfortunately they cannot be used for energy production or conversion. Some nonprofit organization should establish a website for exposing scams. Again, someone else – not me. Scientist have rejected good observations, experiments, and theories. A good example is radio which was demonstrated and rejected as induction. Radio was being transmitted over mile distances prior to Maxwell, Marconi, et al. Others are continental drift (rejected even when surveyed distances between North America and Europe showed tiny but unmistakable increases.) The formation of craters by meteorite impact instead of vulcanism. Global warming because of CO2. The last three all promoted by Alfred Wegener. Scientific and technological history has been falsified, especially at elementary and high school level. RADAR, actually LIDAR, was patented in Germany prior to WWI (that's I not II); see the book Rings Around the World. Some ocean liners in the 1930s had CW (continuous wave) radar for detecting icebergs. The transistor was not invented at Bell Labs. The first U.S. patent was issued in the 1930s. A semiconductor textbook a nephew of mine used at the University of Virginia had parts of the patent as its end papers. For that matter, even earlier, experimenters had discovered linking two cat's-whisker crystal radio detectors tuned exactly the same and supplying power at the right point produced amazing amplification. Although they did not know it they had created a point-contact transistor by properly linking two point-contact diodes. I could never get a cat's-whisker radio to work for more than a few seconds. Just because it is difficult to get something to work does not mean it will not work if done properly. Initial examples usually barely work, work only part of the time, and work only with finicky adjustments. It originally took adjusting three or four knobs to tune an AM radio. Inventions have been suppressed, or at least the inventors and some historians have believed so on good evidence. The example of artificial refrigeration comes to mind; probably suppressed by the natural ice industry; see Connections I by James Burke on DVD. On another subject, I hope E-Cat is really cold fusion, practical, and scalable. As Arthur C. Clarke said in an interview available on YouTube it would revolutionize everything. I keep hoping it is not some mistake or scam, and wondering if it isn't some odd, short lived, energetic chemical reaction. How long will an E-Cat produce steam if supplied with water? What is the cost of an E-Cat? What is the lifetime of an E-Cat? How often do parts, especially expensive parts, have to be replaced? Sorry to blather on. It's late and I'm too tired to be concise and precise.

Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 01/22/2012 - 23:37

Folks, I'm certainly no physicist (in fact I'm not even sure I spelled it correctly, but while I don't doubt that this Hojo Motor may be a hoax, the theory behind it sounds at least a little plausible.

ckmapawatt Mon, 01/23/2012 - 07:34

No, the theory doesn't sound plausible at all.That's why these scammers are so successful, it is because people without energy knowledge (no offense) think that it sounds plausible. Once you have energy knowledge, you realize how ridiculous it all is.

Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/23/2012 - 16:45

For anyone who needs more proof that it's a scam you can go to their website and look at all those glowing reviews half way down the page. See the one from Jon Livingston? Here's the link to his REAL web page http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1166915

Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/23/2012 - 10:24

...MoJo..?

Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/24/2012 - 00:40

I am having trouble coming to terms with some of the previous comments. My knowledge of electric motors and generators is not vast, but I think you will find that if an electric motor is spun using another energy source, it becomes a generator. I think it works somehow by having an magnetic field around an armature, the spinning of the armature in the magnetic field converts kinetic and static energy into a transferable energy, (electricity) from the armature into the brushes and into the wires that lead to the storage device, ( a battery). What the HOJO plans seem to be saying is that an armature, in a vacuum, in a magnetic field caused by permanent magnets, with one gentle push to get the armature turning, will continue to rotate for a very long period, and create electricity. I saw something on a documentary the other day about magnetic fields, powering a roller coaster up a hill. No more than magnets, that was it. Magnets only to push this thing up a giant hill. Some one please correct me if I am wrong.

ckmapawatt Tue, 01/24/2012 - 07:42

You're right about an electric motor spinning under another force acting as a generator. The hojo motor plans can say whatever they want. It doesn't mean they've beaten the laws of physics. If their motor worked, the most power they could create in your scenario is the amount of power that was put in (one gentle push). That isn't much power, maybe a few watts. As far as the documentary, they were probably electromagnets powered by an external source.

Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/24/2012 - 02:17

it is possible, it would cost a small fortune to get strong enough magnates but it is doable.

ckmapawatt Tue, 01/24/2012 - 07:44

Well in that case, why have I been wasting my time! I'll find the money if you build it. WE'RE RICH!!!!

Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/24/2012 - 14:31

I also spent some time reading so-called reviews before coming here. All had direct links to the selling site. Mapawatt is the only reasonable site. The official video for this device evens mentions terms like perpetual motion, and too good to be true. They also seem to have outsourced some of their reviews offshore to countries where English is not the official language. I have made some comments about how they read like the Honda motorcycle owners' manuals of the 60s. Too bad mapawatt does not appear in a search before some of these positive, glowing reviews because some people will actually believe what is written on them. As I said in one of my comments in those places - I'll continue to wait for the commercial development of cold fusion.

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