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US 12,006,919 B2Granted
Energy harvesting with fluids
OwnerAlain Jaccard, Johann Rohner +1inventors
InventorsAlain Jaccard, Johann Rohner, Luc Maffli
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Abstract
A system manages the reactions of fluids to their changes in their environment in order to convert these reactions into energy thereby harvesting the same while protecting the device against destruction or malfunction when the environmental conditions exceed predefined thresholds.
Claims29
An energy harvesting system comprising a rigid reservoir, a piston system, and a temperature range setting system, the energy harvesting system containing a fluid having a total volume, said reservoir in fluid communication with:
- (a) the piston system that converts variations of the volume of said fluid into a mechanical motion, and
- (b) the temperature range setting system including at least a flexible chamber and a range setting mechanism, wherein the flexible chamber is connected to the range setting mechanism so as to engage motion of the piston system within a given temperature range, thereby managing reactions of fluids to temperature changes in order to convert these reactions to harvest energy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.