Hokei MINATO – Magnet Motor

This is another neat motor created by Hokei MINATO – The Magnet Motor

A maverick inventor’s breakthrough electric motor uses permanent magnets to make power — and has investors salivating

When we first got the call from an excited colleague that he’d just seen the most amazing invention — a magnetic motor that consumed almost no electricity — we were so skeptical that we declined an invitation to go see it. If the technology was so good, we thought, how come they didn’t have any customers yet?

We forgot about the invitation and the company until several months later, when our friend called again.

“OK,” he said. “They’ve just sold 40,000 units to a major convenience store chain. Now will you see it?”

In Japan, no one pays for 40,000 convenience store cooling fans without being reasonably sure that they are going to work.

The Maestro ~

The streets of east Shinjuku are littered with the tailings of the many small factories and workshops still located there — hardly one’s image of the headquarters of a world-class technology company. But this is where we are first greeted outside Kohei Minato’s workshop by Nobue Minato, the wife of the inventor and co-director of the family firm.

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