SYSTEMS AND DEVICES POWERED BY AUTONOMOUS ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20240292756A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-29

    申请号:US18655657

    申请日:2024-05-06

    IPC分类号: H10N19/00 H01J45/00 H10N10/00

    CPC分类号: H10N19/00 H01J45/00 H10N10/00

    摘要: An electrically-powered device, structure and/or component is provided that includes an attached autonomous electrical power source in a form of a unique, environmentally-friendly structure that is configured to transform thermal energy at any temperature above absolute zero to an electric potential without any external stimulus including physical movement or deformation energy. The autonomous electrical power source component provides a mechanism for generating renewable energy, or a renewable energy supplement, as primary or auxiliary power for the electrically-powered device, structure and/or component. The autonomous electrical power source component is formed of one or more elements, each of which includes a first conductor having a surface with a comparatively low work function, a second conductor having a surface with the comparatively high work function and a dielectric layer on a scale of 200 Angstrom or less interposed between the conductors.

    STRUCTURALLY EMBEDDED AND INHOSPITABLE ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMS HAVING AUTONOMOUS ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20200227615A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16827658

    申请日:2020-03-23

    摘要: A method is provided for producing an electrically-powered device and/or component that is embeddable in a solid structural component, and a system, a produced device and/or a produced component is provided. The produced electrically powered device includes an attached autonomous electrical power source in a form of a unique, environmentally-friendly structure configured to transform thermal energy at any temperature above absolute zero to an electric potential without any external stimulus including physical movement or deformation energy. The autonomous electrical power source component provides a mechanism for generating renewable energy as primary power for the electrically-powered device and/or component once an integrated structure including the device and/or component is deployed in an environment that restricts future access to the electrical power source for servicing, recharge, replacement, replenishment or the like.