Footwear Console Rotational Generator Wireless Power
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current footwear fails to integrate advanced features such as self-generating power, wireless charging, internet access, safety lighting, and ultra-high security payment, which are essential for modern living demands.
Innovation Solution
The development of a footwear console that harnesses power through walking or ambient energy using a rotational magnetic trigger generator and wireless transceiver, enabling power transmission to personal and IoT devices, LED lights, and incorporating acoustic communication for safety and security, along with smart textiles for styling and comfort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional footwear is used, then simplicity and low cost are maintained, but advanced functionalities such as wireless power transmission, safety lighting, and internet access are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple advanced functionalities (power generation, wireless charging, safety lighting, internet access, acoustic communication) into a single footwear console system. The generator, battery, transceiver, LED lights, and communication modules are integrated into one unified device that can be worn on the foot, allowing the footwear to serve as a portable power station and communication hub.
Solution Approach 2:
The footwear console is designed as a universal platform that can simultaneously perform multiple functions: generating power through walking, wirelessly charging various electronic devices, providing safety lighting, enabling internet access, and facilitating secure acoustic communication. This multi-functional design allows a single device to replace multiple separate gadgets.
2Ease of operation
If wireless power transmission over long distance is implemented, then convenience for charging devices is improved, but power transmission efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs periodic power transmission through pulsed electromagnetic signals rather than continuous transmission. The transceiver sends power in controlled bursts, allowing the generator to recharge the battery periodically and transmit energy in efficient pulses to receiving devices, reducing overall energy loss compared to continuous transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical contact charging (plugs and cables) with wireless electromagnetic power transmission. The transceiver uses electromagnetic fields to transmit power through air space to receiving devices, eliminating the need for physical connections and enabling convenient wireless charging at distances up to several meters.
3Ease of operation
If multiple advanced features are integrated into footwear, then user convenience and safety are enhanced, but device weight increases
Solution Approach 1:
The footwear console utilizes flexible, thin-film components including flexible circuit boards, thin battery cells, and lightweight LED elements. These thin-film technologies allow the integration of multiple functionalities while minimizing the thickness and weight of each component, enabling the console to be worn comfortably on the foot without excessive burden.
Solution Approach 2:
The system optimizes component parameters to reduce weight: using high-energy-density battery materials to decrease battery volume and weight, selecting lightweight LED chips with high luminous efficiency, and employing miniaturized electronic components. The generator is designed with lightweight magnetic materials and optimized coil structures to minimize mass while maintaining power output.
4Reliability
If acoustic communication for secure payment is implemented, then security is improved, but susceptibility to environmental noise interference increases
Solution Approach 1:
The acoustic communication system uses localized, directional sound transmission focused on the immediate vicinity of the footwear. The speaker and microphone are positioned to create a confined acoustic zone for secure communication, reducing the impact of distant environmental noises. The system also employs local noise cancellation algorithms that specifically target and filter out common environmental sounds while preserving the payment verification signals.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution provides a comprehensive platform for wireless power harvesting and transmission, enhancing safety, security, and convenience by eliminating the need for batteries, extending device battery life, and enabling smart living features like augmented reality and virtual reality without cables, thus improving daily life quality.
Implementation Method 1
power harvesting devices with rotational magnetic trigger generator
Implementation Method 2
remote transceiver power device that can receive power from 11 and/or from ambient which can transmit the power wirelessly or with wires
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AI summary
Presenting a new approach to architect footwear as a communication and energy-transporting platform for personalized smart living. This is done by integrating the most advanced technologies today, along with some known technologies still under development, to provide solutions to power on demand for all personal and wearable devices.The systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed in this invention make our personal and wearable devices smarter, thereby providing higher practical functions and more efficiency to our everyday lives.