Power generation devices and methods having a locking element for releasably locking an elastic element storing potential energy
AssigneeOmnitek Partners LLC
InventorsJahangir S. Rastegar, Richard T. Murray
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Abstract
A power generation device including: a housing; an elastic element disposed in the housing in a preloaded state; a power source operatively connected to the elastic element such that release of the elastic element from the preloaded state converts potential energy in the elastic element to electric power by the power source; and a locking element for releasably locking the elastic element in the preloaded state such that removing the locking element causes the potential energy preloaded in the elastic element to be converted to electric power by the power source.
Claims7
A power generation device comprising:
- a housing;
- an elastic element disposed in the housing in a preloaded state;
- a power source operatively connected to the elastic element such that release of the elastic element from the preloaded state converts potential energy in the elastic element to electric power by the power source;
- and
- a locking element for releasably locking the elastic element in the preloaded state such that removing the locking element causes the potential energy preloaded in the elastic element to be converted to electric power by the power source;
- wherein the elastic element is a torsional spring, which when released, provides rotation to a shaft of a dynamo generator operatively connected to the torsional spring.
A power generation device, comprising:
- a housing;
- an elastic element disposed in the housing in a preloaded state;
- a power source operatively connected to the elastic element such that release of the elastic element from the preloaded state converts potential energy in the elastic element to electric power by the power source;
- and
- a locking element for releasably locking the elastic element in the preloaded state such that removing the locking element causes the potential energy preloaded in the elastic element to be converted to electric power by the power source;
- wherein the elastic element is a spring and the spring is coupled to a mass to form a mass-spring unit;
- and
- the locking element is disposed in a bore in the mass.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.