Patent ID: 7629699

Claim:
A power generating system comprising: a miniature internal combustion engine (MICE) generator having a piston and shaft axially moving within a casing and the shaft being operatively connected to a first end of a spring a second end of the spring being fixed to the casing, the shaft being further interconnected to an alternator assembly in which axial movement of the shaft causes relative movement of an alternator coil with respect to a magnet assembly; and a dynamic load control that generates a control signal in response to a voltage waveform provided by a voltage output of the coil, the control signal varying throughout a cycle of the waveform and being operatively connected to a load-generating element that, in response to the signal, varies current provided by the coil and provides it to a power control circuit interconnected to at least one of a power-dissipating element and a power-storing element to thereby vary a load on the coil; wherein piston stroke is controlled at dynamically variable levels over the entire piston cycle.