Title:
IMPLEMENT EQUIPPED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL POWER GENERATOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2015077047
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an implement whose primary function is improved by being equipped with an environmental power generator which generates power by energy harvesting technology (environmental power generation technology) targeting energy saving regarding the environmental power generator and its utilization.SOLUTION: A shoebox is equipped with a power generation function, and comprises: a power generation module which consists of a housing having a plurality of shelf boards, and opening/closing doors corresponding to each of the shelf boards, and with a shoebox function for opening the opening/closing doors, loading, accommodating shoes on the shelf boards, and after that, closing the opening/closing doors, and an environmental power generator using a piezoelectric element to be provided in the housing, in which the environmental power generator using the piezoelectric element comprises the piezoelectric element on a face for loading the shoes of the shelf boards and a front face of the shelf boards where the opening/closing doors contact the shelf boards; a secondary battery which accumulates power generated by the power generation module; and a control part which manages battery capacity and battery temperature of the secondary battery when the power generated by the power generation module is accumulated in the secondary battery.
Inventors:
FUJIKI TAKEMASA
Application Number:
JP2013213809A
Publication Date:
April 20, 2015
Filing Date:
October 11, 2013
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO
International Classes:
H02N2/18; A47B61/04; A47B63/00; A47B97/00; A47G25/14; B60L8/00; H01L41/113; H01L41/193; H02J7/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshitaka Oshida