Abstract:
The invention relates to an input device provided with at least one textile fabric carrier (10), at least one flexible, wire-type or thread-type electrical conductor (12) comprising at least one weft thread and/or warp thread (S, K) of the fabric carrier (10), and at least one electroconductive, flexible keypad (14) which is electrically connected to a key connection of the conductor (12), said conductor (12) being designed in such a way that it can be connected to an evaluation device (20).
Abstract:
The invention comprises a full-fashioned weaving process for the production of a woven garment (20) which can accommodate and include sleeves. The garment (20) is made of only one, single integrated fabric and has no discontinuities or seams. Additionally, the garment can include intelligence capability, such as the ability to monitor one or more body vital signs (25), or garment protection (24), or both, by including a selected sensing component or components in the weave of the garment (20).
Abstract:
Textile product comprising light guiding fibres (2) consisting of a central core capable of transmitting the light and of an external sheath, in which at least a length portion of said external sheath presents, in respect to the internal core, a refraction index allowing the transmitted light to partially escape from the fibre; cloth article made from the textile product; and a manufacturing method of the textile product.
Abstract:
An electric blanket, especially for medical purposes, with a flexible heating element layer (8) which is substantially made of carbon fibres, especially carbon fibre woven fabric. Said blanket is electrically heated.
Abstract:
Electrically conductive fabric, comprising - a set of electrically conductive, and a set of electrically non-conductive; and a set of uniformly distributed binding yarns in warp direction, - a set of electrically conductive and a set of electrically non-conductive yarns in weft direction, wherein - the sets of electrically conductive yarns in warp direction and in weft direction have substantially the same density and the yarns of these sets have the same conductivity; - the set binding yarns provides for –via a leno weave with the set of electrically conductive yarns in warp direction –the connection between the set of electrically conductive yarns in warp direction and the set of electrically conductive yarns in weft direction.
Abstract:
Provided is: an elongated plate-form piezoelectric body, which contains an optically active helical chiral polymer (A) having a weight-average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and has an elongated plate shape having a thickness of from 0.001 mm to 0.2 mm, a width of from 0.1 mm to 30 mm and a width-to-thickness ratio of 2 or higher, and in which the lengthwise direction and the main orientation direction of the helical chiral polymer (A) are substantially parallel to each other; the crystallinity measured by a DSC method is from 20% to 80%; and the birefringence is from 0.01 to 0.03.
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fibrous piezoelectric element which enables a large electric signal to be drawn out by stress produced by relatively small deformation. A piezoelectric element includes a braid composed of a conductive fiber and a piezoelectric fiber. In the braid, the conductive fiber is a core, and the piezoelectrsic fiber is a covering fiber that covers the periphery of the conductive fiber.
Abstract:
A wrappable textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve has a wall of interlaced yarn with opposite edges extending lengthwise between opposite ends. The opposite edges of the wall are wrappable to overlap one another to form a tubular cavity. At least one electro-functional member extends lengthwise between the opposite ends of the wall. The at least one electro-functional member is interlaced in the wall at a plurality of nodes and forms at least one unrestrained loop intermediate the opposite ends of the sleeve. The at least one electro-functional member has a straightened length that is greater than the straightened length of the sleeve, thereby allowing opposite ends of the at least one electro-functional member to be pulled axially outwardly away from the ends of the sleeve to form leads for attachment to a power source, which in turn constricts the at least one loop.
Abstract:
A system for monitoring biometric signals of a user comprising: a garment configured to be worn by the user and comprising a mounting module having an array of connection regions; a set of biometric sensors coupled to the garment and configured to communicate with the array of connection regions to receive and transmit biometric signals indicative of muscle activity of the user; and a portable control module configured to couple to the garment in a first configuration and to decouple from the garment in a second configuration and comprising: a housing comprising an array of openings; a set of contacts, each including a first region that seals at least one of the array of openings and couples to at least one of the array of connection regions in the first configuration, and an electronics subsystem coupled to the housing and in communication with a second region of each contact.