MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641007490 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 26, for 'a hybrid piezoelectric-triboelectric kinetic energy harvesting floor mat.'
Inventor(s) include Satyam Aman; Shubham Kumar; and Sumit Kumar Jindal.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A hybrid kinetic energy harvesting floor mat is disclosed for converting mechanical energy generated by human footsteps into electrical energy. The floor mat comprises a load-bearing structure incorporating a mechanically coupled multilayer architecture (100) configured to simultaneously activate a piezoelectric energy harvesting module and a triboelectric energy harvesting module in response to a single footstep. Electrical outputs generated by the piezoelectric and triboelectric modules are independently rectified through corresponding circuits (200) and consolidated at a unified DC node for storage in a single energy storage unit. A monitoring module is electrically connected to the energy storage unit to enable real-time voltage measurement and display. Prototype visualization (300), practical implementation (400), and experimental output measurements (500) demonstrate effective hybrid energy harvesting and reliable operation under repeated human footstep excitation."
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