APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A SENSING SUBSTRATE

    公开(公告)号:WO2021134008A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-01

    申请号:PCT/US2020/067006

    申请日:2020-12-24

    Abstract: An occupant or object sensing system in a vehicle includes electrical circuits for resistive and /or capacitive sensing and corresponding circuits shielding the sensing system from interference. A sensing circuit and a shielding circuit may be printed by screen printing with conductive ink on opposite sides of a non-conductive substrate. The substrate is a plastic film or other fabric that has an elastic memory structure that is resilient to stretching. The conductive inks used to print circuits onto the substrate have a similar resilience to stretching such that the substrate and the circuits thereon can be subject to deforming forces without breaking the printed circuits. The substrate may be covered with a carbon polymer layer to provide alternative conductive paths that enable fast recovery for conduction in the presence of any break in the printed conductive traces on the substrate.

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