SYSTEMS AND DEVICES POWERED BY AUTONOMOUS ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20240292756A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-29

    申请号:US18655657

    申请日:2024-05-06

    IPC分类号: H10N19/00 H01J45/00 H10N10/00

    CPC分类号: H10N19/00 H01J45/00 H10N10/00

    摘要: An electrically-powered device, structure and/or component is provided that includes an attached autonomous electrical power source in a form of a unique, environmentally-friendly structure that is configured to transform thermal energy at any temperature above absolute zero to an electric potential without any external stimulus including physical movement or deformation energy. The autonomous electrical power source component provides a mechanism for generating renewable energy, or a renewable energy supplement, as primary or auxiliary power for the electrically-powered device, structure and/or component. The autonomous electrical power source component is formed of one or more elements, each of which includes a first conductor having a surface with a comparatively low work function, a second conductor having a surface with the comparatively high work function and a dielectric layer on a scale of 200 Angstrom or less interposed between the conductors.

    STRUCTURALLY EMBEDDED AND INHOSPITABLE ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMS HAVING AUTONOMOUS ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20200227615A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16827658

    申请日:2020-03-23

    摘要: A method is provided for producing an electrically-powered device and/or component that is embeddable in a solid structural component, and a system, a produced device and/or a produced component is provided. The produced electrically powered device includes an attached autonomous electrical power source in a form of a unique, environmentally-friendly structure configured to transform thermal energy at any temperature above absolute zero to an electric potential without any external stimulus including physical movement or deformation energy. The autonomous electrical power source component provides a mechanism for generating renewable energy as primary power for the electrically-powered device and/or component once an integrated structure including the device and/or component is deployed in an environment that restricts future access to the electrical power source for servicing, recharge, replacement, replenishment or the like.

    Energy Harvesting Systems for Providing Autonomous Electrical Power to Mobile Devices

    公开(公告)号:US20200180289A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-11

    申请号:US16736631

    申请日:2020-01-07

    摘要: A system is provided that integrates an autonomous energy harvesting capacity in a mobile device in an aesthetically neutral manner. A unique set of structural features combine to implement a hidden energy harvesting system on a surface of the mobile device body structure or casing to provide electrical power to the mobile device, and/or to individually electrically-powered components in the mobile device. Color-matched, image-matched and/or texture-matched optical layers are formed over energy harvesting components, including photovoltaic energy collecting components. Optical layers are tuned to scatter selectable wavelengths of electromagnetic energy back in an incident direction while allowing remaining wavelengths of electromagnetic energy to pass through the layers to the energy collecting components below. The layers appear opaque when observed from a light incident side, while allowing at least 50%, and as much as 80+%, of the energy impinging on the energy or incident side to pass through the layer.