Harvesting energy for a smart ring via piezoelectric charging

    公开(公告)号:US11637511B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-25

    申请号:US16926270

    申请日:2020-07-10

    申请人: BlueOwl, LLC

    摘要: A smart ring is configured harvest mechanical energy using piezoelectricity. The smart ring includes a ring-shaped housing, a power source disposed within the ring-shaped housing, and a charging circuit. The charging circuit includes a piezoelectric harvesting element, and is configured to charge the power source when user motion causes a mechanical deformation in the piezoelectric harvesting element. The smart ring further includes a component, disposed within the ring-shaped housing and configured to draw energy from the power source, and further configured to perform at least one of: i) sense a physical phenomenon external to the ring-shaped housing, ii) send communication signals to a communication device external to the ring-shaped housing, or iii) implement a user interface.

    Cover for motor vehicle alternators

    公开(公告)号:US11557849B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-17

    申请号:US17052648

    申请日:2019-05-03

    摘要: The invention relates to a cover for protecting a regulator and a rectifier of a motor vehicle alternator, comprising at least two removable sections that are each compatible with at least two possible configurations for the connector of the regulator, and/or at least two removable sections that are each compatible with at least two possible configurations for the terminal of the rectifier, which cover can be used to protect more than one possible configuration of a motor vehicle alternator and reduces manufacturing time and costs.

    RECIRCULATING LINEAR GENERATOR
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220416621A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17852706

    申请日:2022-06-29

    发明人: Kent E. Leininger

    摘要: A recirculating linear generator comprises a motor, a pulley system, two series of coil structures each arranged coaxially, a positive lead, and a negative lead. The pulley system includes a driver pulley driven by the motor and a take-up pulley. A belt couples to the driver pulley and the take-up pulley, so when driven, the belt travels along the driver pulley and the take-up pulley rotates. A series of ferromagnetic couple to the belt. The belt and masses traverse through a center (i.e., an axis) of the first series and second series of coil structures, and the first series and second series of coil structures each comprise a single electrical path. The positive lead couples to positive ends of the first and second series of coil structures, and the negative lead couples to negative ends of the first and second series of coil structures.

    Power supply semi-trailer for electric drive fracturing equipment

    公开(公告)号:US11459865B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US17242316

    申请日:2021-04-28

    摘要: The present invention discloses a power supply semi-trailer for electric drive fracturing equipment, including a combination of a gas turbine engine, a generator and a rectifying unit, the generator outputs a winding configuration and a voltage required for the rectifying units directly to obviate conventional rectifier transformer equipment. The rectifying unit is connected to the inversion unit through a common DC bus, so that the common DC bus can separately drive multiple inversion units, thus decreasing the wirings of power supply lines. A high voltage inversion unit is disposed on a gooseneck of the electric drive semi-trailer to optimize the spatial arrangement of equipment. The entire power supply equipment has a compact structure, occupies a small area, and is simple in wiring.

    ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20220258867A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-18

    申请号:US17738165

    申请日:2022-05-06

    摘要: An electric power system for a vehicle includes at least one electric machine, one or more power rectifiers, and a plurality of DC channels. The at least one electric machine includes a plurality of tooth-wound multi-phase windings that are substantially magnetically decoupled, and the at least one electric machine is mechanically balanced even if one of the plurality of windings is de-energized. The one or more power rectifiers are configured to produce rectified power from the power generated by the at least one electric machine. The plurality of DC channels are formed after the at least one power rectifier and are configured to provide DC power to one or more loads within a vehicle.

    RECTIFIER AND VEHICLE AC GENERATOR PROVIDED THEREWITH

    公开(公告)号:US20210257888A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-19

    申请号:US17254354

    申请日:2018-08-03

    摘要: A rectifier and a vehicle AC generator that can suppress the cost, the rectification loss, and the leakage current from increasing are provided. A rectifier is configured in such a way that in each of n sets, one of a positive electrode side semiconductor device and a negative electrode side semiconductor device is a MOSFET, in such a way that in at least one of the n sets, the other one of the positive electrode side semiconductor device and the negative electrode side semiconductor device is a specific diode, and in such a way that the specific diode is a Schottky barrier diode or a MOS diode, which is a MOSFET whose drain terminal and gate terminal are short-circuited.