Battery Backpack

Abstract

Our original project consisted of an autonomous battery pack that converts mechanical energy, such as motion, into electrical energy that would be stored in a battery load. The battery would be attached to a backpack with a USB port and an outlet for regular use to charge electronics such as your phone or laptop. We also wanted to add a secondary power source such as solar energy in case the battery pack did not provide an ample amount of energy.

            After a few weeks of research and planning however, we realized that the project was too advanced and time consuming for our level of expertise. The idea wasnt easy to research due to it only having a couple patents with no real product available yet. The basic idea behind the battery pack was that it used magnetically inductive coils along with three repelling magnets and a battery load to create an electric charge. Two out of the three magnets would be placed at either end of the inductive coil that would be wound up in a cylindrical tube-like structure. The third magnet would contain repelling sides, one positively charged side and one negatively charged side, and would be suspended between the other magnets. The addition of motion would cause the suspended magnet to oscillate between the other magnets, creating an electric charge that would be induced by the coil then transferred and stored into a battery load.

 In the end, due to the loss of time, we had to settle for something quick and basic. We attached a basic 5000mAh power bank to a backpack with a phone charger and cord for charging the power bank.

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Published

2018-03-21

How to Cite

Battery Backpack. (2018). Journal of Innovative Ideas in Engineering and Technology (ISSN: 2563-3678), 1(1), 97-102. Retrieved from https://jiiet.com/index.php/jiiet/article/view/24

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017): Innovative ideas by undergraduate engineering students at Henry Ford College

Section

College Student

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