Investigation to the use of vibration energy for supply of hearing aids

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ben Amor, N ^a   Kanoun, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy autonomous systems; Hearing aid; Power aware systems; Vibration energy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE DEVICES; VIBRATION CONTROL; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

ENERGY AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; POWER AWARE SYSTEMS; VIBRATION ENERGY;

HEARING AIDS;

EID: 34648813285     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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