Design and modeling of a patterned-electret-based energy harvester for tire pressure monitoring systems

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 995-1005

  Westby, Eskild R ^a,b   Halvorsen, Einar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b Sensonor Technologies AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Electrets; electrostatic transducer; energy harvester; power generation; tire pressure monitoring systems

Indexed keywords

COLORED NOISE; DESIGN AND MODELING; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DRIVING SPEED; ELECTRICAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT; ELECTROSTATIC TRANSDUCERS; ENERGY HARVESTER; MICROSCALE ENERGY; POWER SOURCES; PROOF MASS; SPECIFIC DESIGN; TIRE VIBRATIONS; TIRE-PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEMS;

DESIGN; ELECTRETS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POWER GENERATION; PRESSURE CONTROL;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84865394579     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2151203     Document Type: Article

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