Harvesting energy from vehicle wheels

TRANSDUCERS 2009 - 15th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1389-1392

  Manla, G ^a   White, N M ^a   Tudor, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impact energy harvesting; Piezoelectric generator; Rotational generator; TPMS

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CENTRIPETAL FORCE; ELECTRICAL POWER; IMPACT ENERGY; LINEAR SPEED; PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ACTUATORS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; HARVESTING; MICROSYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; VEHICLES;

VEHICLE WHEELS;

EID: 71449121691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2009.5285831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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