Patent ID: 8581306

Claim:
A rectification circuit comprising: at least one input terminal receiving an AC signal; a rectification unit communicating with the input terminal and providing: (a) a first and second electrical conductor having corresponding first and second ends approaching each other across a gap; (b) at least two elastically mounted conducting elements positioned within the gap to permit shuttling of electrons between each other and at least one of the first and second electrical conductors with vibration of the two elastically mounted conducting elements; and wherein at least one of an arrangement of the elastically mounted conducting elements with respect to the first and second electrical conductors and a shape of at least one of the elastically mounted conducting elements and the first and second electrical conductors includes a predetermined asymmetry to promote a predetermined direction of spontaneous symmetry breaking so that the conducting elements operate in a coupled mode to provide a non-zero average current flow between the first and second electrical conductor when excited by the AC signal.