Disclosed are an apparatus for generating electrical power by a bicycle under gravity control and replenishing energy in a flywheel battery. The bicycle is provided with a gravitational engaging and disengaging device and a motive power assembly (2), wherein the gravitational engaging and disengaging device automatically controls whether to replenish energy in a flywheel battery (3) according to the state of travel of the bicycle. The motive power assembly uses the motive power of a bicycle rear wheel (72) to generate electrical power, and the generated electrical power drives a flywheel (31) of the flywheel battery to store energy. The benefit is that in the case of no power source, the bicycle can be used to replenish kinetic energy in the flywheel battery. Gravity and a self-locking mechanism (12) are used to automatically control the energy replenished in the flywheel battery so as to lighten the manpower load. That is, when the bicycle is going downhill, the apparatus automatically couples with the bicycle to provide kinetic energy to the flywheel; and when the bicycle is going uphill or travelling along a flat, the apparatus automatically separates from the bicycle to lighten the manpower load.
Apparatus for generating electrical power by bicycle under gravity control and replenishing energy in flywheel battery, and method of use
2016-02-24
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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