In a piezoelectric power generation device and a piezoelectric ceramics
member used in the device excellent in its power generation efficiency in
which the polarization of piezoelectric ceramics elements is set to the
same direction and an extremely thin metallic electrode is sandwiched in
between the piezoelectric ceramics elements so that a current output
obtained in the piezoelectric power generation device can be improved
substantially to about two times as high as a current output obtained by
a usual piezoelectric power generation device and the parasitic resonance
of the electrode can be prevented, the piezoelectric power generation
device generates power by applying a distortion deformation to
piezoelectric ceramics members formed in plate shapes. The piezoelectric
power generation device includes the piezoelectric ceramics members each
having the two plate shaped piezoelectric ceramics elements whose
polarization is set to the same direction and the extremely thin metallic
electrode interposed between the piezoelectric ceramics elements, the
piezoelectric ceramics member being formed in a laminar shape by uniting
the piezoelectric ceramics elements through the metallic electrode; and
the cushion materials for supporting central parts or both end parts of
one surfaces of the piezoelectric ceramics members. Thus, the
piezoelectric power generation device has a soft support structure in
which the natural oscillation of the piezoelectric ceramics members is
hardly transmitted to other structural members. A step part is formed in
the piezoelectric ceramics member and the metallic electrode.