...Xinhua Yao; Sheng Li; Jianzhong Fu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study using thermoelectric module to harvest the waste heat from spindle units of machine tools and drive wireless sensors stable, thermal structure design and optimization of the thermoelectric module. Design...

...Sheng Li; Xinhua Yao; Jianzhong Fu Purpose – For using wireless sensors to monitor spindle units without opening the spindle shell to replace the battery, harvesting the waste heat from spindle units of machine tools for thermoelectric generation to drive wireless sensors is studied in this paper...