Storing Piezoelectric Energy from the Shock Absorber

Abstract

Until now shock absorber has been rarely investigated due to the lack of commercial interest. However, recently many energy related materials and devices have been attracted much attention due to their potential intelligent energy saving applications and systems. Therefore, losing energies from the mechanical and electrical shock absorber can be re-designed and re-used for the micro-energy re-cycling applications. Shock absorber can play important role in the energy harvesting as an energy scavenger instead of dispensable energy absorber. The usage as well as harvesting of micro-energies have been widely spread out for the sensor network systems and their related area. In this research, energy harvesting and storing of micro-energy systems were investigated and will be discussed.