Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High-efficiency energy harvesting interface and corresponding energy harvesting system
- Patent Title (中): 高效能量采集接口和相应的能量采集系统
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Application No.: US15163394Application Date: 2016-05-24
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Publication No.: US09564800B2Publication Date: 2017-02-07
- Inventor: Stefano Ramorini , Alessandro Gasparini , Alberto Cattani
- Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group LLP
- Priority: ITTO2014A0735 20140917
- Main IPC: H02M3/02
- IPC: H02M3/02 ; H02J3/38 ; H02J7/35

Abstract:
An electrical-energy harvesting system envisages a transducer for converting energy from an environmental energy source into a transduced signal, an electrical energy harvesting interface for receiving the transduced signal and for supplying a harvesting signal, and an energy storage element coupled to the electrical energy harvesting interface for receiving the harvesting signal. The electrical-energy harvesting system also includes a voltage converter connected to the electrical energy harvesting interface for generating a regulated voltage. The harvesting interface samples an open-circuit voltage value of the transduced signal, generates an optimized voltage value starting from the open-circuit voltage value, and generates an upper threshold voltage and a lower threshold voltage on the basis of the optimized voltage value. The harvesting interface controls the voltage converter in switching mode so that the harvesting signal has a value between the upper and lower threshold voltages in at least one operating condition.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160268887A1 HIGH-EFFICIENCY ENERGY HARVESTING INTERFACE AND CORRESPONDING ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-09-15
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