MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611025245 A) filed by Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, on March 3, for 'portable energy harvesting and power generation device.'

Inventor(s) include Reetu Malhotra; Vanshika; and Manya.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A portable energy harvesting and power generation device, comprising a housing 101, a cranking arrangement to provide high-power electrical generation during manual rotation by the user, a flywheel 103 to store and stabilize rotational mechanical energy, an electrical generator 104 to convert mechanical rotational energy into electrical energy, a plurality of piezoelectric elements 105 to convert mechanical vibrations generated by shaking the housing 101 into electrical energy, a TEG (thermoelectric generator) unit to generate electrical power from a temperature difference between a user's hand and the surrounding environment, a power conditioning circuit 106 to receive, rectify, regulate, and combine electrical energy from the multiple energy sources into a usable direct-current output, a dual energy storage arrangement to generate a regulated output voltage, and a USB output port 108 to supply a stable output power to external electronic devices."

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