Primal Point Inventions

As I suspected, the motion of the Primal Point was indeed unknown to science, or even to mathematics. This was verified in the course of securing patents on what was to become a new genre of engineering.      At first my application for patent was denied. The Examiner maintained that my claim to have invented a way to make a body oscillate in an infinite number of planes simultaneously was impossible. To rectify this misperception I applied for and was granted an interview with the Examiner. At the meeting I displayed a working model of the Primal Point. After examining the model from all sides and for a long period of time, the Examiner admitted that it did indeed oscillate in all directions simultaneosly, as claimed, and was indeed novel. Nevertheless, he informed me of his decision to deny the application for patent again. This time he said, the ground for denial was that it was “Too Obvious,” meaning that anybody could have invented it if they’d wanted to.       By now I was actually anticipating some such response. The absolute truth was only able to hide in plain sight because it was too obvious for anyone to pay it any mind. As I glanced around the room my eyes fell upon a set of volumes called "The Complete Atlas of Calculus Vectors", neatly arranged on the Examiner’s bookshelf. This was the same set of books my patent attorney and I had used to prove to ourselves that this motion had never been published in the history of  mathematics. Seeing the opportunity this provided, I proceeded to inform him that my attorney and I had already searched the same data base he was using and had found no mention of this motion. "If it's very existence is unrecorded,  how can you  say it's obvious?" I asked.  (Considering the delicacy of his petition,  I declined to mention that it wasn’t obvious earlier, when the Examiner had declared the application invalid because the claimed motion was impossible.) Fortunately the Examiner agreed with the stated argument and awarded me the patent.

In addition to having the ability to oscillate in all directions at once, the Primal Point has other fascinating motions. One of these, which I call the Axis of Symmetry, became the subject of a second patent. For this discovery the U.S. Patent Office has granted me name recognition status. This patent, No. 4,924,718 is called “Omnidirectional Oscillator, (Glover Gear)".      The Axis of Symmetry was discovered by observing that all possible points of oscillation on the ball, each defined by a line drawn from a point on the perimeter of the wheel and intersecting the center of the ball, comprise a pair of revolving truncated cones. This implies that the altitudes of the cones lie along an axis intersecting the center of the Primal Point.

Being a diagnostic medical ultrasonographer by trade, my biggest effort at product development was a probe capable of scanning an organ lengthwise and width-wise simultaneously. Independently conducted studies have shown that when different practitioners scan the same patient with the same state of the art two-dimensional scanning system, measurements of targeted anatomy can easily vary in the range of twenty to thirty percent from practitioner to practitioner. My probe makes anatomical measurements practically foolproof because one image plane can be used to orient you to the other plane, and vice versa.      Also, because the data acquisition rate is so much faster than conventional two-dimensional scanners, it allows a practitioner to perform exams very quickly. That would allow hospitals to reduce the number of ultrasound machines by at least half. Because ultrasound is now about even with x-ray as the most widely prescribed diagnostic tool in the world, cutting back on the need for extra, much more expensive ultrasound machines, plus the extra examining rooms to house them and the extra technicians to run them, would be a great way for government and private individuals to cut health care costs significantly. This would also eliminate the necessity to expose an unclothed patient, covered with wet scanning gel, in a cold room for an extended period of time.

This is my basic ultrasound scanner. It has a scanning crystal at the top center, which oscillates in and out of the plane of the page, and a second crystal mounted opposite to it which oscillates in the plane of the page. Electrical wiring in this design is supplied by rolling connectors attached to the axle. Featured here, but possible on other applications as well, are the counterweights mounted on the axle. They perfectly balance the weight of the two scanning crystals used in this application.

This is my full-featured ultrasound scanner.  In addition to its ability to scan two orthogonal planes (planes which intersect at right angles) simultaneously, it can also perform full-volume 3-D scanning. It does this by utilizing a curved electronic array (seen in yellow in the top position) capable of sending out sound beams radially from any point along the curve of the array. By incrementally shifting the point of origin of the sound beam on the curved array with each oscillation of the array, the sound beam scans a plane and then moves to the adjacent plane.

In that way, a series of tomographic sections (slices) can quickly be acquired which can then be compiled into a full volume 3-D image by a CAD (computer-aided design) program. Another major benefit of this design is hard-wired electrical connections. Two curved arrays can also be used in the device to increase the volume of the scan and to increase the resolution of the scan by overwriting it. Another application of this twin electronic array embodiment is full volume 3-D pulsed radar imaging.

I think a multi-pendulum clock could be a wonderful way to welcome the new millennium. When configured as shown, the two pendulums display the uncanny ability to swing in perpendicular planes, and at the same time to revolve in constant contact around each other. In this arrangement the lower pendulum swings in and out of the page, and the upper pendulm from sided to side in the plane of the page. With the Omnidirectional Oscillator you could have a hundred pendulums all swinging in different planes at the same time. This suggests such applications as mixers, scrubbers and massagers. Another possible application is a cell culture bath. By making test tubes full of cell culture serve as pendulums, the cultures would experience a complex of motions instead of just the simple back and forth or round and round motions typical of most tissue culture baths.

The same clock motion but in a more avant-garde setting, using magnets in the pendulums, powered by a magnetic drive in the base.

This is an electric shaver that cuts whiskers from all directions. While we can only picture two blades at a time in this type of drawing, there could easily be a hundred blades mounted on the wheel, each blade oscillating in its own unique plane. The curved head is an attractive feature because this geometry, when pressed against the skin, exposes the base of the hair shaft.

This device is a very compact robotic arm capable of positioning its arm in any direction above the horizon, using a single joint. The dome spins underneath the arm until the selected sector angle is aligned with the arm. Then an electromagnetic clutch housed inside the dome is turned on, attaching the arm to the dome. Continued spinning of the dome then points the arm in the desired direction. This is most applicable in gravity free or neutral buoyancy environments.

This device disperses fluids in a pattern that recalls the ribs of an umbrella. It might make an interesting ornamental water fountain.      Speaking of ornamentation, multiple colored lights fixed to an oscillator might produce an interesting “disco lighting” effect. By attaching multiple lasers instead of colored lights to an oscillator, multiple optical plumb lines could be superimposed on a construction site. Such an embodiment could also be used as a rapid acquisition targeting system, by sighting along the vertical axis.

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