SOLE FOR FOOTWEARS CAPABLE OF RECOVERING PART OF THE ENERGY PRODUCED DURING DEAMBULATION

    公开(公告)号:EP3044460B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-10

    申请号:EP15711824

    申请日:2015-02-02

    申请人: VIBRAM SPA

    IPC分类号: F03G7/08

    摘要: A sole for footwear capable of recovering part of the energy produced during deambulation including: at least one energy harvesting means, including: a tubular body, fixed in use, having a first and a second end and a movable part slidable in the tubular body; the energy harvesting means being provided, in use, for generating electrical energy following the sliding of the movable part with respect to the tubular body that is fixed in use, during the deambulation; at least one actuator group for the energy harvesting means, including at least one fluid-dynamic circuit including: at least one first and one second tank including a fluid, the first tank being housed at a rear area of the sole and the second tank being housed at a front area of the sole; at least one first and one second joining conduit in fluid connection between the first tank and the first end of the at least one tubular body, and the second tank and the second end of the tubular body, respectively where, the first tank has a configuration in plan view which is substantially elongated and curved.

    MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH ENERGY HARVESTING
    5.
    发明公开
    MOTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH ENERGY HARVESTING 审中-公开
    运动控制系统和能量法

    公开(公告)号:EP2914847A4

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-20

    申请号:EP13851769

    申请日:2013-10-30

    IPC分类号: F03G7/00 H02K7/18

    摘要: A motion control apparatus and method is disclosed. The motion control apparatus comprises a movable mechanism coupled to an external energy source, the energy source providing kinetic energy to the mechanism. An energy conversion module is mechanically coupled to the mechanism for converting kinetic into electrical energy. An electronic circuit is coupled to the energy conversion module and a storage module and a mechanism controller is coupled to the electronic circuit. A sensor module is coupled to both the electronic circuit and the movable mechanism to sense the movement of the movable mechanism to determine speed of the movable mechanism and transmit speed information to the electronic circuit. The method comprises applying energy to a movable mechanism, converting kinetic to electrical energy, storing the electrical energy converted, controlling the motion of the mechanism and sensing the movement of the mechanism.

    POWER GENERATION SWITCH APPARATUS
    7.
    发明公开
    POWER GENERATION SWITCH APPARATUS 审中-公开
    电源开关

    公开(公告)号:EP2816814A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-24

    申请号:EP13764721.0

    申请日:2013-03-22

    IPC分类号: H04Q9/00

    摘要: [Problem] To provide a power generation apparatus having a simplified and size-reduced structure [Solving means] Including multiple switch keys (11-16), a power generation apparatus (30) that is driven to perform power generation by an operation force to the switch keys, multiple switches (SW1-SW5) being supplied with an electric power generated by the power generation apparatus and performing a switching movement by an operation of the switch keys, and a switch signal transmission circuits (41, 42) being driven by the electric power from the power generation apparatus and outputting multiple switch signals that are different from each other in correspondence with the switching movement of the multiple switches.

    FOOT-POWERED FOOTWEAR-EMBEDDED SENSOR-TRANSCEIVER
    10.
    发明公开
    FOOT-POWERED FOOTWEAR-EMBEDDED SENSOR-TRANSCEIVER 有权
    在嵌入式的鞋,脚踏传感器收发器

    公开(公告)号:EP2345145A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-07-20

    申请号:EP09819805.4

    申请日:2009-10-07

    IPC分类号: H02N2/00

    摘要: A user-powered apparatus, system, and method of providing a pedestrian with information is disclosed. The present invention harvests energy created by a moving pedestrian and takes the harvested energy and uses it to recharge an energy storage device that is embedded in the same footwear. Also built into the footwear may be a microcontroller and sensor, and a transmitter/receiver mechanism by which signals may be transmitted to and received from a wrist watch, iPod®, cell phone and/or any similar portable device on the pedestrian. The footwear may be capable of receiving signals transmitted by the portable device or GPS satellite. The GPS satellite may provide information about the geographical location of the pedestrian. Since the energy storage device may be flexible, it can survive on footwear that gets flexed a significant amount. The energy harvester may harvest energy from the footsteps of the pedestrian or some other source and recharge the energy storage device so that there is no need to replace the energy storage device that is an integral and inseparable part of the footwear.