autogenerator

plural autogenerators

1. Synonym of autoproducer (“enterprise that produces a resource incidentally to its primary activity”).

   Synonyms: autoproducer

2. A device or mechanism that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

   […] the potential of the synchronizing signal at the autogenerator circuit […]

   1964, D. V. Karetnikov, Linear Ion Accelerators, page 173

   1 more example

   Let us briefly define the property of systems with self-organized criticality. In the nonlinear dynamics of systems, an example of a SC is an autogenerator with positive feedback, shown in Fig. 3.

   2022, Zhengbing Hu, Sergey Petoukhov, Matthew He, Advances in Artificial Systems for Medicine and Education V (page 69)