Power Generating and Gait Assisting Footwear Article

A device for improving energy harvesting, gait assisting and shock absorbing efficiencies while maintaining normal gait pattern of a wearer of an article of footwear during locomotion, the device comprising:

• a motion conversion module comprising an impact force absorbing and resilient member;
• and one or more guided members being attached to the impact force absorbing resilient member;
• a rotation acceleration module comprising a plurality of rotatable members and communicating with the motion conversion module;
• an electrical energy generator communicating with the rotation acceleration module;
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• a frame accommodating the motion conversion module, rotation acceleration module and electrical energy generator,
• the motion conversion module being vertically extended from a horizontal section of the frame forming a sleeve, wherein the sleeve is internally threaded,
• at least one of the guided members being configured to move along the internally threaded sleeve when the impact force absorbing resilient member moves vertically along the sleeve due to a heel strike or up motion of the wearer's foot,
• the one or more guided members, upon moving along the internally threaded sleeve, driving at least one of a plurality of rotatable members of the rotation acceleration module to rotate, thereby subsequently driving the remaining rotatable members of the rotation acceleration module;
• the electrical energy generator transforming rotational energy of the rotatable members of the rotation acceleration module into electric energy to be stored in an energy storage element and/or supplied to other parts of the article of the footwear and external electronics.