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Developing Self-powered High Performance Sensors: Part III-A Low Frequency Ball-impacted PE/ME Composite Energy Harvester

  • Cheng Li
  • , Qinhong Lan
  • , Dong F. Wang
  • , Toshihiro Itoh
  • , Ryutaro Maeda
  • Jilin University
  • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
  • The University of Tokyo

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Abstract

In our previous related works of DTIP, a tri-Axial piezoelectric accelerometer with an error compensation method was proposed in DTIP2018, and a PE/ME coupling in a vibration energy convertor was preliminarily studied in DTIP2020. Vibration sources in life are mostly low frequency, while its harvesting faces difficulties. In this paper, a ball-impacted piezoelectric/electromagnetic (PE/ME) composite energy harvester (BCEH) with a frequency up-conversion (FUC) mechanism is proposed. Upon excitation, a piezoelectric cantilever, magnetically coupled to a coil, vibrates back and forth with large amplitudes through ball-impacts. Compared to without ball-impacts, the experimental results show that the proposed ball-magnet-cantilever structure increases the maximum PE output by 263% and increases the maximum ME output by 42.9%, demonstrating the contribution of the frequency up-conversion mechanism. In addition, the coil is found to help broaden the response bandwidth to a certain extent, but unfavorable for the peak voltage, which needs further studied.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, DTIP 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665491679
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, DTIP 2022 - Pont-a-Mousson, France
Duration: 11 Jul 202213 Jul 2022

Publication series

Name2022 Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, DTIP 2022

Conference

Conference2022 Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, DTIP 2022
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityPont-a-Mousson
Period11/07/2213/07/22

Keywords

  • Ball-impact
  • Energy harvester
  • Frequency up-conversion mechanism
  • Low frequency vibrations
  • Piezoelectric/magnetoelectric (PE/ME) composite mechanism

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