{"title":"Misconceptions in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System Development","authors":"K. Uchino","doi":"10.3390/MICROMACHINES2021-09570","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Energy harvesting from wasted or unused power has been a topic of discussion for a long time. We developed ‘damper devices’ for precision machinery and automobile engine mats in the 1980s. However, in the 1990s we realized that electric energy dissipation on its own was useless, and started to accumulate the converted electric energy into a rechargeable battery. Historically, this was the starting point of ‘piezoelectric energy harvesting devices’.","PeriodicalId":137788,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Micromachines 2021 — 1st International Conference on Micromachines and Applications (ICMA2021)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of Micromachines 2021 — 1st International Conference on Micromachines and Applications (ICMA2021)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3390/MICROMACHINES2021-09570","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Energy harvesting from wasted or unused power has been a topic of discussion for a long time. We developed ‘damper devices’ for precision machinery and automobile engine mats in the 1980s. However, in the 1990s we realized that electric energy dissipation on its own was useless, and started to accumulate the converted electric energy into a rechargeable battery. Historically, this was the starting point of ‘piezoelectric energy harvesting devices’.