Monday 20 March 2017

Green Energy Harvesting in Prosthetics






Energy Harvesting

The green energy harvesting here will
emphasis use of piezoelectric devices in
Prosthetic legs. Geometric parameters,
beam, mass and resistive electric loads
significantly influence the output power [4].
The piezoelectric CMOS harvesting could
bypass the input voltage and recover some
energy to increase the energy during
negative piezoelectric voltage.

The devices that have been used are
piezoelectric, electromagnetic, electrostatic,
pyroelectric, photovoltaic and
thermoelectric. The conversion of
harvesting energy is very good in
scalability, capability, high energy density
and compatible with standard electronic
technology. In addition, the piezoelectric
could be coupled to a mechanism to
perform opening of the contacts in the
switching devices [1-3].


Reference:  Piezoelectrics in Prosthetics: Energy Harvesting Paperback – 25 Apr 2016 by Dr Kesorn Pechrach Weaver PhD (Author)



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