Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Thin and flexible self-powered vibration transducer employing triboelectric nanogeneration
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Application No.: US17151363Application Date: 2021-01-18
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Publication No.: US11647340B2Publication Date: 2023-05-09
- Inventor: Nivedita Arora , Gregory D. Abowd , Mohit Gupta , Diego Osorio , Seyedeh Fereshteh Shahmiri , Thad Eugene Starner , Yi-Cheng Wang , Zhengjun Wang , Zhong Lin Wang , Steven L Zhang , Peter McAughan , Qiuyue Xue , Dhruva Bansal , Ryan Bahr , Emmanouil Tentzeris
- Applicant: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Current Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Bockhop Intellectual Property Law, LLC
- Agent Bryan W. Bockhop
- The original application number of the division: US16425514 2019.05.29
- Main IPC: H04R19/01
- IPC: H04R19/01 ; H02N1/04 ; H04R19/04 ; H04R3/00 ; H01Q9/16 ; H04R31/00 ; H01G7/06 ; H01Q7/02 ; H02N1/08 ; B81B3/00

Abstract:
A vibration transducer for sensing vibrations includes a first flexible triboelectric member, a second flexible triboelectric member, a plurality of attachment points, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first flexible triboelectric member includes a first triboelectric layer and a material being on a first position on a triboelectric series. A conductive layer is deposited on the second side thereof. The second flexible triboelectric member includes a second triboelectric layer and a material being on a second position on the triboelectric series that is different from the first position on the triboelectric series. The second triboelectric member is adjacent to the first flexible triboelectric member. When the first triboelectric member comes into and out of contact with the second triboelectric member as a result of the vibrations, a triboelectric potential difference having a variable intensity corresponding to the vibrations can be sensed between the first and second triboelectric members.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210281955A1 Thin and flexible self-powered vibration transducer employing triboelectric nanogeneration Public/Granted day:2021-09-09
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