Energy harvesting mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8948870-B2
Application number	US-55652409-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2009
Priority date	Sep 9, 2008
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide an energy harvesting mechanism comprising a central conductive element and a plurality of transductive elements. Each transductive element is positioned to be in contact with a corresponding peripheral length segment of the central conductive element. Also each transductive element is deformable in a characteristic radial direction to convert its deformation into a corresponding electrical signal. The plurality of transductive elements are arranged so that any one of the plurality of transductive elements is capable of being deformed in the characteristic radial direction to trigger the corresponding electrical signal. Embodiments of the mechanism can be used for harvesting energy from a variety of bio-kinetic events such as a heartbeat, respiration, muscle contraction or other movement. Such embodiments can be used for powering a variety of implanted medical devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators and various monitoring devices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An energy harvesting mechanism comprising:
a central conductive element;
a plurality of transductive elements, each transductive element being positioned to be in contact with a corresponding peripheral length segment of the central conductive element;
wherein each transductive element is deformable in a characteristic radial direction to convert its deformation into a corresponding electrical signal;
wherein at least a portion of the plurality of tran…

Assignees

• Imran Mir
• Incube Labs Llc

Inventors

• Imran Mir

Classifications

• H01L41/113 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• A61N1/3785 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• Y02E60/16

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H02N2/186 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10N30/30

  Electricity · mapped topic