Automobile Mechanism Science

The increasing demand for electricity and limited supply of fuel calls for the need of alternative sources of energy. Through this project, We display a method to light up the street lights and suburbs close to highways by extracting the Impulse energy on the speed bumps by the automobiles. This project harvest energy from speed breaker. When vehicles are in motion they produce many forms of energy like Kinetic energy due to its motion, heat energy due to friction and potential energy. This energy is simply wasted. With this project We use this wasted energy and produce electric energy. So be ready and get started with the project. Take a model car and let it to pass through the speed breaker and see what happens… observation: on moving the car over the speed breaker the speed breaker gets pushed down and we can observe that at a same time the LED gets light up. How it works: this mechanism converts the Impulse energy produced by the passing of the vehicle over a speed bump into the linear motion of the rack (toy), attached to the speed breaker, which drives a pinion mounted on shaft with the help of one way bearing. The shaft rotates only in the locking direction of the bearing, which in turn rotates the pulley mounted on it. The restoring springs push back the speed breakers to their equilibrium state. The pulley drives the alternator rotor which transfer the motion to a dc motor/generator for electricity generation. This method provides an efficient way to generate electricity from the Kinetic energy of moving vehicles in roads, highways, parking lots etc. Assembly Required ‎Yes Batteries Required ‎No Batteries Included ‎No Material Type(s) ‎Plastic, MDF, metal and other Color ‎Multicolor Product Dimensions ‎18.5 x 6 x 12 cm; 370 Grams Item part number ‎New 056 Manufacturer recommended age ‎10 years and up Manufacturer ‎Juniar Scientist Country of Origin ‎India Item Weight 600g