SMART APPARATUS HAVING TOUCH INPUT MODULE AND ENERGY GENERATING DEVICE, AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SMART APPARATUS

• US 20140313141A1
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Young-jun, KIM, Hyun-jin, CHANG, Hyuk
• Application Number:
  US14/143,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313141A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1635 Details related to the integration of battery packs and other power supplies such as fuel cells or integrated AC adapter
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033

Abstract

A smart apparatus and a method of operating the same are provided. The smart apparatus includes a display device in which an application is embedded; a touch input module which is disposed on the display device and is configured to execute the application in response to a touch input applied thereto; and a first energy generating device which is disposed on the display device and is configured to generate electric energy from a mechanical force externally applied thereto.

Claims

1. A smart apparatus comprising:

a display device in which an application is embedded;

a touch input module which is disposed on the display device and is configured to execute the application in response to a touch input applied thereto; and

a first energy generating device which is disposed on the display device and is configured to generate electric energy from a mechanical force externally applied thereto.

2. The smart apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first energy generating device is flexible and is configured to transmit light emitted from the display device.

3. The smart apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first energy generating device comprises at least one of a piezoelectric generator and a triboelectric generator.

4. The smart apparatus of claim 3, wherein the first energy generating device comprises:

first and second substrates which are arranged to be apart from each other;

a first electrode which is disposed on the first substrate;

a second electrode which is disposed on the second substrate; and

a plurality of piezoelectric nanowires interposed between the first and second electrodes.

5. The smart apparatus of claim 3, further comprising a dielectric film interposed between the second electrode and the piezoelectric nanowires.

6. The smart apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first energy generating device comprises:

first and second substrates which are arranged to be apart from each other;

a first electrode which is disposed on the first substrate;

a second electrodes which is disposed on the second substrate; and

a piezoelectric thin-film layer interposed between the first and second electrodes.

7. The smart apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first energy generating device comprises:

first and second substrates which are arranged to be apart from each other;

a first electrode which is disposed on the first substrate;

a second electrode which is disposed on the second substrate;

a first triboelectric layer which is disposed on the first electrode and comprises a first dielectric material or a metal; and

a second triboelectric layer which is disposed on the second electrode and comprises a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material.

8. The smart apparatus of claim 1, where the touch input module is interposed between the first energy generating device, the display device or the first energy generating device is interposed between the touch input module and the display device.

9. The smart apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a second energy generating device which is disposed on the display device and configured to generate electric energy from a mechanical force externally applied thereto.

10. A method of operating at least one smart apparatus, which includes a display device in which an applications is embedded;

a touch input module which is disposed on the display device and is configured to executes the application in response to a touch input applied thereto; and

an energy generating device which is disposed on the display device, the method comprising generating electric energy by the energy generating device by applying an external mechanical force to the smart apparatus.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

executing the application embedded in the display device in response to the touch input applied to the touch input module; and

generating electric energy from the touch input by using the energy generating device.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying an amount of electric energy generated by the energy generating device on the display device.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising synchronizing the amount of electric energy displayed on the display device to a game score displayed by the display device as the application is executed.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

executing applications by a plurality of smart apparatuses connected via a wireless communication network in response to touch inputs applied to touch input modules of the smart apparatuses;

generating electric energy by energy generating devices of the smart apparatuses from the touch inputs; and

displaying on the display devices of the smart apparatuses amounts of electric energy generated by the energy generating devices.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising synchronizing the amounts of electric energy displayed on the display devices to game scores displayed as the applications are executed.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising determining energy harvesting rankings based on the amounts of electric energy displayed on the display devices.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing or transmitting electric energy generated by the energy generating devices.

18. A smart apparatus comprising:

a main body comprising a display device; and

a cover case which is configured to cover the main body and comprises an energy generating device configured to generate electric energy from a mechanical force externally applied thereto.

19. The smart apparatus of claim 18, wherein the cover case further comprises an energy storage device which is configured to store the electric energy generated by the energy generating device.

20. The smart apparatus of claim 18, wherein the cover case further comprises a connection circuit which is arranged between the energy generating device and the main body and is configured to supply the electric energy generated by the energy generating device to the main body.