ENERGY HARVESTED FROM RESPIRATORY EFFORT

David Cavalheiro, Ana Catarina Silva, Stanimir Valtchev, J. Pamies Teixeira, Valentina Vassilenko

2012

Abstract

Presently, a high cost of some medical equipment is due not only the sophisticated technology, but also because the cost of his maintenance. The electronic devices implanted in the human body are examples for this constant maintenance, requiring sophisticated medical operations. Extra weight and volume addition to the electronic devices are also a disadvantage, limiting the autonomy of such devices. An alternative to replace the batteries as power sources is to obtain the energy from the human body. In this work we present our prototype of Breathing Energy Transducer (BET) for an efficient energy conversion at fixed 2.6V from chest movements during breathing. A series of experiments were performed in order to calculate the power that could be generated from the respiratory effort during normal and deep breathings.

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in Harvard Style

Cavalheiro D., Silva A., Valtchev S., Pamies Teixeira J. and Vassilenko V. (2012). ENERGY HARVESTED FROM RESPIRATORY EFFORT . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-91-1, pages 388-392. DOI: 10.5220/0003876703880392


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices12,
author={David Cavalheiro and Ana Catarina Silva and Stanimir Valtchev and J. Pamies Teixeira and Valentina Vassilenko},
title={ENERGY HARVESTED FROM RESPIRATORY EFFORT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={388-392},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003876703880392},
isbn={978-989-8425-91-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - ENERGY HARVESTED FROM RESPIRATORY EFFORT
SN - 978-989-8425-91-1
AU - Cavalheiro D.
AU - Silva A.
AU - Valtchev S.
AU - Pamies Teixeira J.
AU - Vassilenko V.
PY - 2012
SP - 388
EP - 392
DO - 10.5220/0003876703880392