Nokia Self Charging Phone Battery Patent Filed [Nokia Next Gen Phone Battery Uses Kinetic Energy to Charge, Shuns Solar Power]

Whilst other phone manufacturers such as Samsung have started embracing solar energy in its phone design (see the Samsung S7550 Blue Earth and the Samsung E117 by way of examples) Nokia appear to be looking into kinetic energy as a green method of charging, or at least topping up the charge, its future phone batteries.

Nokia’s patent specifically concerns a “Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester” just Nokia’s patent describes as follows:

A battery for an electronic device is contained within a first frame that is coupled to a second frame by one or more piezoelectric elements. The second frame is coupled to a device chassis by one or more additional piezoelectric elements. In response to translation and/or rotation of the electronic device, portions of forces induced by the battery mass are transferred to the piezoelectric elements. Electrical energy output by these piezoelectric elements is received in a power controller and can be applied to the battery. Additional device components can also be contained within the first frame so as to increase the total mass that induces forces applied to the piezoelectric elements.

Got that? Good.

We should stress that the fact that Nokia have filed a patent concerning this new battery technology – you can view the patent info here, incidentally – doesn’t give us an indication as to when, or even if, these new batteries will make it into consumer handsets but its nice to see that Nokia is acting to cover such bases – especially as eco factors are having an ever greater say in consumer’s purchasing decisions.

All Nokia need to do now in order for us to truly love them here at TFTS is to ditch Symbian completely, but we won’t be holding our breath on that one just yet.