Analysis of the Transformation of Mechanical Impact Energy to Electric Energy Using Piezoelectric Vibrator

We propose a new mechanism of electric power generation in which mechanical impact energy is transformed to electric energy by a piezoelectric transducer. To clarify the relationship between the input mechanical impact energy and the output electric energy in this method, we measured the electric output of a piezoelectric vibrator stimulated by an impact with a steel ball. An electrical equivalent model of the phenomenon is proposed to analyze the transformation efficiency as functions of the electromechanical coupling coefficient, the mechanical loss and the dielectric loss of the vibrator.