Research Article

A Combined Softening and Hardening Mechanism for Low Frequency Human Motion Energy Harvesting Application

Table 1

The gap between the top and bottom magnet with respect to the centre magnet.

ConfigurationSoftening configurationHardening configuration
Magnet gapTop gap, (mm)Top gap, (mm)Bottom gap, (mm)

Configuration 1103025
Configuration 2152323
Configuration 3201521