Self-powered wireless switch

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6933655
APP PUB NO 20040124741A1
SERIAL NO

10414438

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A wireless switch is provided having a twenty-year life energy harvesting arrangement for self-powering a wireless transmitter. The energy harvesting arrangement is implemented in one embodiment using a piezoelectric switch element. A tritium light source and photovoltaic device are used in a second embodiment, while a black light source and photovoltaic device are used in a third embodiment. The energy harvesting wireless switch arrangement of the present invention can be combined, for example, with a vehicle side mirror switch, to reduce the complexity of the wire harness feeding the door. The wireless switch can be located without regard to accessability of a wiring harness or connector.

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY77 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE CAMBRIDGE MA 02139

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Berta, Michael J Rochester Hills, MI 10 322
Feldmeier, Mark Waukesha, WI 5 411
Maue, H Winston Farmington Hills, MI 65 1538
Meinzer, Richard Glastonbury, CT 8 279
Morrison, Gerald O Beverly Hills, MI 20 583
Paradiso, Joseph Medford, MA 14 579
Skarb, Brian P Warren, MI 4 170
Youngs, John Southgate, MI 4 112

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