SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARVESTING VIBRATIONAL ENERGY FROM VEHICLES

• Main Authors: HOFBECK, Eric, LIN, Alex, HOFFMAN, Herbert
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 15.02.2017
• Subjects: AIRCRAFT; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; COSMONAUTICS; ELECTRIC MACHINES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; GENERATION; PARACHUTES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

Disclosed are methods, systems and apparatuses for harvesting vibrational energy from vehicles, as well as methods for locating vibrational energy on a vehicle. One harvesting apparatus comprises a vibrational energy harvester coupled to a substantially maximal vibrational displacement node of the s...