Design of Self-Sustainable Muscle Stimulator Using Piezoelectric Powering

Abstract

Locomotion is a very important part of our daily life and due to locomotion both kinetic and potential energy is used which can be used instead of wastage of energy during movement and hence the idea of using this energy during locomotion into something useful is developed. Therefore, a piezoelectric transducer based charging device is designed which can charge a muscle stimulator in this paper. Along with the charging device additional features are added to the system which is an electrical muscle stimulator which is helpful to relieve muscle pain, headache and revive frozen muscles that impair movement. This paper presents the design and analysis of a piezoelectric transducer-based charging device and electronic muscle stimulator. The simulation was done first individually and the satisfactory results were obtained. Then they were combined together and the combined results were analysed. Required low output voltage obtained and the expected vibrational sine waves were observed in cathode ray oscilloscope which shows the viability of the work presented.