Vortex-induced vibration wind energy harvesting device

    公开(公告)号:US11626817B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-11

    申请号:US17018318

    申请日:2020-09-11

    发明人: Kim-Boon Lua

    摘要: A vortex-induced vibration wind energy harvesting device, including an array consisting of a plurality of oscillators and a plurality of piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMSs), is provided. An oscillator is mounted on each of the piezoelectric MEMSs. When any one of the oscillators is oscillated by and resonant with vortex shedding due to an incoming airflow, its vortices in the wake will enhance the oscillation of the downstream oscillators, so that overall oscillation of the oscillators in the array is strengthened. The piezoelectric MEMSs are deformed by the vibration of these oscillators to generate voltage and current to output. In the present invention, the oscillators are arranged closely. When the airflow passes the array, even weak airflow can generate periodic force and cause significant oscillation due to resonance. The MEMS can convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and output it in order to achieve the purpose of wind energy harvesting.

    Gas sensor
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11499937B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US16515206

    申请日:2019-07-18

    摘要: A gas sensor includes a first electrode, a gas detecting layer disposed on the first electrode, and an electric-conduction enhanced electrode unit being electrically connected to the first electrode and the gas detecting layer. The electric-conduction enhanced electrode unit includes an electric-conduction enhancing layer and a second electrode electrically connected to the electric-conduction enhancing layer. The electric-conduction enhancing layer is electrically connected to the gas detecting layer and is made of an electrically conductive organic material.

    Method of fabricating thin film with varying thickness

    公开(公告)号:US11499219B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US17094754

    申请日:2020-11-10

    IPC分类号: C23C14/04 G02B5/28

    摘要: A method of fabricating a thin film with a varying thickness includes the steps of providing a shadow mask with an opening, providing a carrier plate, arranging a substrate on the carrier plate, and coating the substrate through the opening whilst rotating the carrier plate relative to the shadow mask. A plurality of zones of the substrates is swept and exposed from arcuate portions of the opening per each turn by a plurality of predetermined exposure times, respectively. The varying thickness of the thin film corresponds to variation of the predetermined exposure times.

    Quasi-single-crystal film and manufacturing method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11346019B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US16939566

    申请日:2020-07-27

    发明人: Chih Chen Yu-Jin Li

    摘要: A quasi-single-crystal film and its manufacturing method thereof are provided, in which a metal film having a preferred orientation of on its surface is subjected to a mechanical stretching force, such that the crystal grains thereof are able to form in a much more orderly arrangement, and a quasi-single-crystal film having preferred orientations on three axes can be obtained. The proposed quasi-single-crystal film has preferred orientations of and on its stretching direction and a direction that is perpendicular to the stretching direction, respectively, and retains a preferred orientation of on its surface. By employing the present invention, it is advantageous of manufacturing large-area quasi single crystal films having high anisotropy as well as growing two dimensional materials or developing of other anisotropic feature structures.

    Flow rate measuring method
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11287303B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US16854512

    申请日:2020-04-21

    摘要: The present invention relates to a flow rate measuring method comprising: establishing a database which includes a plurality of flow profiles; measuring the flow in a flow field using a plurality of transducers wherein in between every two transducers there exists an acoustic path which indicates the flow speed of the flow between the two transducers, and a feature map can be derived from the flow speeds; comparing the feature map with the database; selecting a matching flow profile from the flow profiles wherein the matching flow profile has a plurality of weighting functions corresponding to the acoustic paths; and calibrating the flow speed using the weighting functions.

    Signal processing method
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11269052B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-08

    申请号:US16728268

    申请日:2019-12-27

    IPC分类号: G01S7/35 G01S13/06 G01S13/00

    摘要: A signal processing method is provided. First, at least one transmitted signal is output to at least one target, and the target reflects at least one reflected signal to receiving antennas, which then generate receiving signals upon receipt of the reflected signal. Next, the transmitted signal and each receiving signal are processed to generate processing signals. The processing signals are arranged in a form of matrix, to generate a channel coefficient matrix having M×N channel coefficient matrix blocks. Next, the channel coefficient matrix is divided into Ndivide×Mdivide secondary channel coefficient matrices, which are then substituted into a snapshot vector matrix equation to generate a snapshot vector matrix for calculating an angle of the target. The signal processing method can establish an optimal secondary channel coefficient matrix arrangement by using a special signal preprocessing manner, to improve the resolution and accuracy of the estimated angle parameter of the target.