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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 energyproducing 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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ckmapawatt's picture
No, you don't have to have a working model to get a patent. Read the notes at the end of the post from my friend who is a patent attorney. The patents aren't even for the "machine" they are claiming to sell in the plans.
Okay folks, I think I've read enough from both sides to see that there is only one thing left to say about all claims both pro and con. While I can appreciate the so-called lack of cohesion with thermal dynamics and magnetic propulsion, being a mechanical engineer myself I don't agree that the theory in itself is a scam. I do know for a fact that both thermal dynamics and magnetic propulsion used in conjunction with one another is a fact and as the commentator stated are being used in a bullet train in Japan. I believe that this particular company may be perpetrating a scam however but all I can say in rebuttal to all comments is; "where in the world is there a good viable running magnet motor that is small, efficient, easily built and affordable for single family home owners?" Scam? Yes quite plausible. Unrealistic? No. Simply said, the right combination of the right kind of magnets placed in juxtaposition to one another to simultaneously attract and repel each other in close proximity with one another and placed in a cylindrical housing compartment with a bearing supported rotor could quite conceivably rotate with continuous unrestricted motion and turn a generator. Like the commentator stated; and in my own words; "in order to make it happen; just apply money." While I would love to continue the works of Mr Johnson, I don't have the resources or the body guards to do it. We need to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, develop the billions of barrels of oil on our own soil, hold oil producing corporations accountable as in Alaska and continue to build green energy production tools such as solar panels and wind mills. I cannot understand why people protest wind turbine projects that promote clean air/clean energy and yet they don't protest against buying foreign oil, building more coal burning plants and oil refineries. We have the tools to reduce pollution hear in America and create jobs in the process but we fail to collaborate as a majority in forcing the change necessary to make it happen. Let's get our act together people!
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Marlon, I appreciate your comment, but I dont know where you have the facts to make this claim: "Simply said, the right combination of the right kind of magnets placed in juxtaposition to one another to simultaneously attract and repel each other in close proximity with one another and placed in a cylindrical housing compartment with a bearing supported rotor could quite conceivably rotate with continuous unrestricted motion and turn a generator." Your first argument that it could quite conceivably rotate with continuous unrestricted motion is unrealistic. It has never been done. The fact you say it can be done AND turn a generator is <strong>preposterous</strong>. You are stating you believe in overcoming friction AND producing energy from nothing. It's unfair to readers to make unfounded claims like this. I agree with everything you say after "We need to reduce our dependency on foreign oil..."
Dear Glowmo, you mean china is producing hojo motor and sell it to America, please advice who is selling, Thanks,
Hello, Any body brought HoJo Motor plan ?
Here is an explaination of why it won't work. Assign a numeric value to each pole of a magnet, +1 for the positive pole and -1 for the negative pole. To build a magnetic motor you would have to have magnets set up that pull and magnets set up that push. If you put in an odd magnet that doesn't have a reverse mate the motor will stop as it will be pulled or pushed to a point in the motor and the magnetic force of the odd magnet will cause it to stop. So your stuck putting in magnets in pairs of positive and negative. Since you have to do that to even have a chance of getting a magnetic motor to work then the mathmatics become apparent. No matter how many magnets you add to the motor the combination of +1's and -1's will always total "0". Zero, that's how much energy you can get out of a magnetic motor without an outside force like water or steam to drive it thru coils.
Of course it doesnt work, there is NO such thing as a perpetual motion machine. That scam started probably a hundred years ago lol. Even if you COULD get the motor run itself how could it do any WORK. FTC should sue Clickbank!
I bought the HoJo motor. I am using it right now to run my computer. Oh, and I also live with my best friends, Elmo and Snuffaluffagus. We are simply amazed at how easy it was to use the HoJo motor. Time for my meds now. I am seeing Mother Goose again have sexual relations with Justin Bieber. Oh, Justin purchased a Hojo motor too. He loves it. We're singing to it right now.
I got tired reading all the above, so don't know if anyone mentioned that "you can neither create or destroy energy, you can only transform it from one form to another" The HOJO seems to claim it is able to create energy, therefore I think it must be a scam....
All you people that says it works, just show us one working model and you have made your case. You can't do it.

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