GENERATING EQUIPMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide small, lightweight and inexpensive generating equipment capable of generating power in response to each of vibrations from a plurality of directions. SOLUTION: The generating equipment 400 has a structure in which a sheet base material is bent into a cross sectional surface of substantially U-shaped to form a horizontal portion 740 and two upright portions 726, the end of each of the upright portions 726 is folded to form weights (folded portions 717), a predetermined length of the horizontal portion 740 is twisted by 90 degrees to provide a vertical portion 745, and then a piezoelectric sheet is formed by sequentially laminating a piezoelectric film and an electrode on both the surfaces of the sheet base material, and after that, a substantial center portion of the vertical portion 745 is clamped on both sides by a fixing supporting portion 760. Power can be generated by vibration of a substantial vertical direction for the horizontal portion 740, by vibration of a to-and-fro direction substantially horizontally for the vertical portion 745 and by vibration in right/left direction substantially horizontally for the upright portion 726. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT