Electrical Energy Generator
AssigneeTremont Electric, LLC
InventorAaron Patrick LEMIEUX
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Abstract
An electrical energy generator that converts kinetic energy harvested from voluntary motor activity of a human or animal to electrical energy. The electrical energy generator includes a housing, a coil of electrically conductive material, a reciprocally movable electromagnetically active mass, springs connecting the mass to either the housing or to adjustment means engaged with said housing, and, optionally, means for constraining non-linear motion of the electromagnetically active mass, and/or means of mitigating motion retardation of the electromagnetically active mass within any existing housing atmosphere. The electrical energy generator may be associated with a carried item, such as a backpack.
Claims16
An electrical energy generator comprising:
- a housing having a longitudinal axis, an interior cavity, an interior cavity surface, and an exterior surface;
- electrically conductive material engaged about at least a portion of said exterior surface of said housing and extending along at least a portion of said longitudinal axis;
- an electromagnetically active mass having at least one through-hole positioned within said housing reciprocally movable along at least a portion of said longitudinal axis;
- a guidance means passing through said through-hole;
- a first spring engaged with said mass and said housing;
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- a second spring engaged with said mass and said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.