Compact Energy Harvesting Power Supporting an "A" size Sensor Navy SBIR FY2009.3 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2009.3 Topic No.: N093-172 Topic Title: Compact Energy Harvesting Power Supporting an "A" size Sensor Proposal No.: N093-172-0564 Firm: QorTek, Inc. 1965 Lycoming Creek Road Suite 205 Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17701-1294 Contact: Ross Bird Phone: (570) 322-2700 Web Site: www.qortek.com Abstract: The proposed compact, low cost to manufacture, high performance (power density) energy harvesting system can provide large power (Watts), intermittent or constant, power levels. It can very efficiently convert vertical motion or current into stored electrical energy. Key to the design will be that it can be rapidly built full scale and functionally tested as to undergo extensive testing including shock, vibration, hydrostatic pressure, temperature-humidity effects, enclosure design, acoustic and structure-borne noise. Benefits: The technology is directly applicable to a broad range of underwater sources including A-size buoys as the AN/SSQ-110, AN/SSQ-101A, AN/SSQ-53F, AN/SSQ-77C. QorTek will be teamed with two major developers and supplier of underwater buoys and sensors. Many of the current and future buoy and sensor system designs utilize the same canister form factor and the technology can be directly transitioned as a stand-alone module eliminates the need to re-engineering legacy devices (buoys/sensors) in order to integrate this capability (also without increasing their observability). For example, the proposed technology would enable AN/BRT-1: Submarine sonar radio transmitting buoy, AN/BRT-6: Expendable UHF SATCOM communication buoy, AN/BST-1: Submarine Emergency Communication Transmitter (SECT) buoy and SEPIRB as to all have substantially extended operating lifetimes. Return