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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2007
Jiankang Huang, Roslindale, MA (US);
Robert C. O'handley, Andover, MA (US);
David C. Bono, Wellesley, MA (US);
Jiankang Huang, Roslindale, MA (US);
Robert C. O'Handley, Andover, MA (US);
David C. Bono, Wellesley, MA (US);
Ferro Solutions, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for harvesting energy from the environment and/or other external sources and converting it to useful electrical energy. The harvester does not contain a permanent magnet or other local field source but instead relies on the earth's magnetic field of another source of a magnetic field that is external to the sensing device. One advantage of these new harvesters is that they can be made smaller and lighter than energy harvesters that contain a magnet and/or an inertial mass.