Electrostatic energy collector and electrostatic energy collecting method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10790765-B2
Application number	US-201515562746-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2015
Priority date	Mar 30, 2015
Publication date	Sep 29, 2020
Grant date	Sep 29, 2020

Abstract

An electrostatic energy collector and an electrostatic energy collecting method. The electrostatic energy collector comprises: a vibrating table (101), the vibrating table being fixedly connected to a first end of a first cross beam (102) and a first end of a second cross beam (103), the first cross beam being parallel to the second cross beam, a vertical projection of the first cross beam being overlapped with that of the second cross beam, both of the first cross beam and the second cross beam being conductors, a first mass block (104) being fixedly arranged on the first cross beam, an electret layer (106) being coated at the side, close to the first cross beam, of the second cross beam, a second mass block (105) being fixed at the sided, facing away from the first cross beam, of the second cross beam, a first lead (107) being connected to the first cross beam and a first end of a load (109), and a second lead (108) being connected to the cross beam and a second end of the load. The electrostatic energy collector and the electrostatic energy collecting method can improve energy connection efficiency.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of harvesting electrostatic energy, the method involving:
a vibrostand fixed and connected to a first end of a first cross beam and a first end of a second cross beam, wherein the first cross beam is parallel to the second cross beam, the first cross beam is overlapped to the perpendicular projection of the second cross beam, and both of the first cross beam and the second cross beam are conductors;
a first mass block is fixed on the first cross beam, an electret layer is coated on a side of the second cross beam close to the first cross beam, a second mass block is fixed on a side of the second cross beam away from the first cross beam, and the electret layer is a nonconductor;
wherein a first lead is connected to the first cross beam and a first end of a load, and a second lead is connected to the second cross beam and a second end of the load;
wherein when the electret layer is charged, corresponding inductive charges are induced on both of the first cross beam and the second cross beam, and a plane-parallel capacitor is formed by the first cross beam and the second cross beam;

the method comprising:
charging the electret layer, such that corresponding inductive charges are induced on both of the first cross beam and the second cross beam;
measuring an inherent frequency of a first oscillatory system to acquire a first inherent frequency, wherein the first oscillatory system comprises the first cross beam and the first mass block;
measuring an inherent frequency of a second oscillatory system to acquire a second inherent frequency, wherein the first oscillatory system comprises the second cross beam and the second mass block, wherein a ratio of a first calculated value and a second calculated value is less than 20%, the first calculated value is an absolute value of the difference between the first inherent frequency and the second inherent frequency, and the second calculated value is a sum of the first inherent frequency and the second inherent frequency;
vibrating the vibrostand and, when a vibrating frequency of the vibrostand is between the first measuring frequency and the second measuring frequency, measuring a voltage on the load, wherein the first measuring frequency is less than the first inherent frequency and the second inherent frequency, and the second measuring frequency is greater than the first inherent frequency and the second inherent frequency; and
calculating a root-mean-square (RMS) power on the load to acquire a corresponding relationship between the RMS power and the vibrating frequency.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein after charging the electret layer, such that corresponding inductive charges are induced on both of the first cross beam and the second cross beam, the method further comprises:
measuring a surface voltage of the electret layer, and when the surface voltage of the electret layer exceeds a preset voltage value, performing the step of measuring the inherent frequency of the first oscillatory system.

Assignees

• Univ Southern Sci & Tech

Inventors

• Wang Fei

Classifications

• H05F7/00

  Use of naturally-occurring electricity, {e.g. lightning or static electricity} · CPC title

• H02N1/12

  in the form of a conveyor belt, e.g. van de Graaff machine · CPC title

• H02N1/06

  Influence generators · CPC title

• H02N1/00

  Electrostatic generators or motors using a solid moving electrostatic charge carrier · CPC title

• H02N1/08 Primary

  with conductive charge carrier, i.e. capacitor machines · CPC title