Patent ID: 8610319

Claim:
An energy harvesting device (EHD) comprising: a. a hollow outer envelope ( 201 ) having an inner wall ( 200 ) with a first predetermined magnetic field distributed on an inner surface of said inner wall; b. at least one inner core ( 202 ), free to move in said hollow envelope ( 200 ) characterized by a second predetermined magnetic field distributed on an inner surface of said at least one inner core, said inner core being characterized by one or more convex projections of magnetically active material; c. at least one conducting loop ( 203 ) disposed on said at least one inner core, so as to be suffused with magnetic flux due to said first and second magnetic field distributions of said at least one inner core and said at least one outer envelope and generating an alternating current due to movement of said inner core within said outer envelope; and d. a rectifying circuit in electrical connection with said at least one conducting loop ( 203 ) rectifying said alternating current into a current having a DC component, wherein the shape of outer envelope is selected from the group consisting of molybi augmented polyhedral, cupolaic expanded rhombohedra, rhombically expanded deltahedra, skew polygon expanded polyhedral, icosidodecahedrons, Catalan solids, uniform polyhedral, isohedral polyhedral, convex polyhedral, isohedral deltahedra, acrohedra, Johnson solids, chiral prismatic polyhedral, platonic solids, and lens and lens-like patterns selected from a group consisting of convex lens, converging lens, concave lens, irregular shapes.