US Patent Issued to Zhejiang Gongshang University on July 7 for "Piezoelectric vibration energy harvester and design method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,596, issued on July 7, was assigned to Zhejiang Gongshang University (Hangzhou, China).

"Piezoelectric vibration energy harvester and design method thereof" was invented by Guangqing Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Zhoulong Liu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric vibration energy harvester includes: a first support plate, a second support plate, a piezoelectric bimorph cantilever, a rolling part, a printing raceway, a preloading spring and a bottom plate, the first and second support plates are vertically disposed on the bottom plate, two ends of the piezoelectric bimorph cantilever are respectively connected wi...