Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Design and optimization of a trapezoidal beam array energy harvester with operating wide speed rang for TPMS application

  • Technical Paper
  • Published:
Microsystem Technologies Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstracts

A tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) can effectively improve the safety traffic and air fuel efficiency. As a results, it is mandatory to install in automobile tires in some developed countries. So in recent years the vibration energy harvester (EH) applied to TPMS has increasing attention. One of major challenges of the harvester is to widen the operating speed rang of these harvesters which will determine whether the harvester can really be applied to TPMS. Base on that the large vibrations will be occurred when the tire is in contact with the road surface, a trapezoidal beam array EH which can operate in wide speed rang was proposed in this paper. In order to optimize the proposed harvester, a numerical analysis of the vibration characteristics of the tire was performed, and an optimization method called stress normalization method which is different from the traditional optimization method of EH is proposed, then the optimization of the EH was performed with ANSYS. The optimization results show that the average power output of the proposed EH is 42.0–437.2 μW at the rolling speed from 40 to 120 km/h, and electric energy output in one rolling cycle of the proposed harvester is 6.62–23.0 μJ at the rolling speed from 40 to 120 km/h, which can achieve TPMS power supply within a wide speed range.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
Fig. 12
Fig. 13
Fig. 14
Fig. 15
Fig. 16
Fig. 17
Fig. 18
Fig. 19
Fig. 20
Fig. 21
Fig. 22
Fig. 23

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Bowen CR, Arafa MH (2015) Energy harvesting technologies for tire pressure monitoring systems. Adv Energy Mater 5:991–1001

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Deng L, Wen Z, Zhao X (2018) MEMS piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters. In: Huang Q (ed) Micro electro mechanical systems. Springer, Singapore, pp 1297–1333

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Elfrink R, Kamel TM, Goedbloed M et al (2009) Vibration energy harvesting with aluminum nitride-based piezoelectric devices. J Micromech Microeng 19:94005

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Eshghi AT, Lee S, Sadoughi MK et al. (2018) Experimental verification of tire energy harvester designed via reliability based design optimization method. In: Active and passive smart structures and integrated systems XIISPIE, 14

  • Fan F, Tian Z, Wang ZL (2012) Flexible triboelectric generator. Nano Energy 1:328–334

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gu L, Livermore C (2012) Compact passively self-tuning energy harvesting for rotating applications. Smart Mater Struct 21:15002

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Khameneifar F, Arzanpour S, Moallem M (2013) A piezoelectric energy harvester for rotary motion applications: design and experiments. IEEE/ASME Trans Mechatron 18:1527–1534

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kubba AE, Jiang K (2014) A comprehensive study on technologies of tyre monitoring systems and possible energy solutions. SENSORS 14:10306

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Löhndorf M, Kvisterøy T, Westby E et al (2007) Evaluation of energy harvesting concepts for tire pressure monitoring systems. PowerMEMS 2007:331–334

    Google Scholar 

  • Pallapa M, Aly M, Aly S et al. (2010) Modeling and simulation of a piezoelectric micro-power generator. In: Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference, Boston

  • Périsse J (2002) A study of radial vibrations of a rolling tyre for tyre-road noise characterisation. Mech Syst Signal Process 16:1043–1058

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Qian J, Kim DS, Lee DW (2018) On-vehicle triboelectric nanogenerator enabled self-powered sensor for tire pressure monitoring. Nano Energy 49:126–136

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rouf I, Miller R, Mustafa H et al. (2010) Security and privacy vulnerabilities of in-car wireless networks: a tire pressure monitoring system case study. In: Usenix security symposium, Washington, DC, USA, 11–13 Aug 2010, Proceedings, pp 323–338

  • Roundy S (2008) Energy harvesting for tire pressure monitoring systems: design considerations. Technical digest powermems

  • Roundy S, Tola J (2014) Energy harvester for rotating environments using offset pendulum and nonlinear dynamics. Smart Mater Struct 23:105004

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Roundy S, Wright PK (2004) A piezoelectric vibration based generator for wireless electronics. Smart Mater Struct 13:1131–1142

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Singh KB, Bedekar V, Taheri S et al (2012) Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting system with an adaptive frequency tuning mechanism for intelligent tires. Mechatronics 22:970–988

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Suzuki Y (2011) Recent progress in MEMS electret generator for energy harvesting. IEEJ Trans Electr Electron Eng 6:101–111

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tan Y, Dong Y, Wang X (2017) Review of MEMS electromagnetic vibration energy harvester. J Microelectromechanical Syst 26:1–16

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Toghi Eshghi A, Lee S, Kazem Sadoughi M et al (2017) Design optimization under uncertainty and speed variability for a piezoelectric energy harvester powering a tire pressure monitoring sensor. Smart Mater Struct 26:105037

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Trabaldo E, Köhler E, Staaf H et al (2014) Simulation of a Novel Bridge MEMS-PZT energy harvester for tire pressure system. J Phys: Conf Ser 557:12041

    Google Scholar 

  • Velupillai S, Guvenc L (2007) Tire pressure monitoring. Control Syst IEEE 27:22–25

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang YJ, Chen CD, Lin CC et al (2015a) A nonlinear suspended energy harvester for a tire pressure monitoring system. Micromachines 6:312–327

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang YJ, Hao YT, Lin HY (2015b) Design of a weighted-rotor energy harvester based on dynamic analysis and optimization of circular Halbach array magnetic disk. Micromachines 6:375–389

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang YJ, Tsung-Yi C, Yu JH et al (2017) Design and kinetic analysis of piezoelectric energy harvesters with self-adjusting resonant frequency. Smart Mater Struct 26:95037

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wu X, Parmar M, Lee DW (2014) A seesaw-structured energy harvester with superwide bandwidth for TPMS application. IEEE/ASME Trans Mechatron 19:1514–1522

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yamagishi K, Jenkins JT (1980a) Singular perturbation solutions of the circumferential contact problem for the belted radial truck and bus tire. J Appl Mech 47:679–684

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Yamagishi K, Jenkins JT (1980b) The circumferential contact problem for the belted radial tire. J Appl Mech 47:1142–1181

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Zepeng W, Feng G, Guoyan X et al (2007) Modeling and numerical analysis of temperature field of automobile tire and its influencing factors. Trans Chin Soc Agric Mach 38:37–41

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

This work were sponsored by NUPTSF (Grant No. NY215006 and Grant No. NY217040) and Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. SJCX17_0231).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. College of Electronic and Opticl Engineering and College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Licheng Deng, Ju Qi, Yuming Fang, Debo Wang & Beiyuan Wu

  2. Defense Key Disciplines Lab of Novel Micro-nano Devices and System Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400040, China

    Licheng Deng & Zhiyu Wen

Authors
  1. Licheng Deng
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ju Qi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Yuming Fang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Debo Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Beiyuan Wu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Zhiyu Wen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Licheng Deng.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Deng, L., Qi, J., Fang, Y. et al. Design and optimization of a trapezoidal beam array energy harvester with operating wide speed rang for TPMS application. Microsyst Technol 25, 2869–2879 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-018-4243-1

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-018-4243-1

Search

Navigation