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Nokia files a mobile device power patent
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has registered a patent application to power batteries through piezoelectric kinetic energy.
Nokia has sensibly called its device, designed to harvest piezoelectric kinetic energy, a piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester. The patent application filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office shows that Nokia wants to harness the kinetic energy generated by movements caused to mobile hardware carrying the batteries:
It reads, "In a device according to at least some embodiments, kinetic energy resulting from acceleration of a battery powered device is harvested using piezoelectric elements that are positioned to receive forces along multiple different axes."
Kinetic energy powered watches have been around for a long time. But Nokia is going a step further by trying to harvest every movement that the batteries are subject to. Nokia intends to do this using a force-transferring assembly:
"So as to increase the amount of forces on those piezoelectric elements, the mass inducing such forces is increased by locating heavier device components within an assembly that transfers forces to the piezoelectric elements in response to device translation and/or rotation." µ
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Wrist watches using this method have been on the market for many years. Seiko is but one example of such.
Now the second step would be to licence this patent to all other handset manufactures in the world for free, EXCEPT APPLE.
Could even start a consortium called HAAA (Handset Alliance Against Apple), which Nokia, HTC, Motorola, Google, and so on could use to share technology and protect each other against the aggressive, anti-competitive attacks of Jobs and his fruit-themed Fourth Reich.
(would not recommend that Microsoft be allowed to join the "HAAA club", as they tend to embrace, extend, and extinguish their "business partners").