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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2014
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Mahmoud A. Abou-Nasr, Dearborn, MI (US);
Dimitar Petrov Filev, Dearborn, MI (US);
Cynthia Mowery Flanigan, Dearborn, MI (US);
David Scott Rohweder, Dearborn, MI (US);
Janice Lisa Tardiff, Dearborn, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for generating power for an electric sub-assembly of a motor vehicle may include at least one reverse electrowetting energy harvesting element coupled to a tire of the motor vehicle. The system may further include at least one controller configured to accumulate electric energy generated by the at least one reverse electrowetting energy harvesting element and supply the accumulated electric energy to at least one sub-assembly mounted on the tire.