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US 2006/0133733 A1Published application
Power harvesting
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsGlen Koste, Min-Yi Shih, Todd Tolliver
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Abstract
A power harvesting module comprises at least one electromagnetic (EM) radiation intensity modulator configured to receive a first EM radiation from at least one source and at least one energy converter configured to at least partially convert the energy of the first EM radiation during modulation into electrical energy.
Claims38
A power harvesting module comprising:
- at least one electromagnetic (EM) radiation modulator configured to receive and modulate an EM radiation from at least one source to provide a modulated EM radiation;
- and
- at least one energy harvester configured to at least partially harvest the energy of the EM radiation unused or discarded in the modulated EM radiation.
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A system at least partially powered by EM radiation comprising:
- at least one EM radiation source;
- and
- at least one power harvesting module, the power harvesting module including at least one EM radiation modulator configured to modulate EM radiation from the at least one EM radiation source to provide a modulated EM radiation, and at least one energy harvester configured for harvesting an unused or discarded portion of the modulated EM radiation.
A method for harvesting power from an intensity modulator comprising the steps of configuring the modulator to a selected level of power harvesting;
- providing an EM radiation to the modulator from an EM source;
- and
- harvesting the energy of the EM radiation unused or discarded in a modulated EM radiation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.