Wearable action-aware device

• US 10,123,740 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2016
• Issued: 11/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Far Eastern New Century Corp.
• Original Assignee: Far Eastern New Century Corp.
• Inventors: Yan, Min-Si, Hung, Wei-Che, Lin, Yueh-Hsien, Li, Chih-Ting
• Primary Examiner(s): COLLIER, JAMESON D
• Application Number:
  US15/225,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20170209093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 1/002 adapted to accommodate electronic equipment patients' garments for medical monitoring A41D13/1281; luminous ornaments A41D27/085
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 31/00 Materials specially adapted for outerwear
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1114 Tracking parts of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1116 Determining posture transitions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1121 Determining geometric values, e.g. centre of rotation or angular range of movement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6804 Garments; Clothes
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/038 Textiles used as reinforcing materials for organic insulating substrates H05K1/0366
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/092 Dispersed materials, e.g. conductive pastes or inks
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0145 Polyester, e.g. polyethylene terephthalate [PET], polyethylene naphthalate [PEN]
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0162 Silicon containing polymer, e.g. silicone

Abstract

The wearable action-aware device includes a clothing body, a signal receiving and computing element, and a conductive line made of conductive fabric. Two ends of the conductive line are electrically connected to the signal receiving and computing element, respectively, to form a circuit, and both the signal receiving and computing element and the conductive line are disposed on the clothing body. An exposed side of the conductive line has electrical conductivity, and the circuit is disposed on a part of the clothing body corresponding to a part of a body that needs to be measured. Action information of a user can be measured when the user wears the present invention wearable action-aware device.

Claims

1. A wearable action-aware device comprising:

a clothing body used for draping over at least one joint of a user when being worn by the user;

a signal receiving and computing element; and

a conductive line made of conductive fabric, two ends of the conductive line being electrically connected to the signal receiving and computing element, respectively, to form a circuit, and both the signal receiving and computing element and the conductive line being disposed on the clothing body, wherein the conductive fabric comprises a fabric body and a conductive coating layer, and the conductive coating layer comprises a hydrophobic adhesive and a plurality of conductive particles dispersed in the hydrophobic adhesive, wherein the conductive coating layer is completely merged with the fabric body and embedded in the fabric body, and the conductive coating layer has an exposed surface that is flush with a side of the fabric body, wherein an exposed side of the conductive line has electrical conductivity, and the circuit is disposed on a part of the clothing body corresponding to the at least one joint.

2. The wearable action-aware device of claim 1, wherein a width of the conductive line is not less than 0.5 centimeter.

3. The wearable action-aware device of claim 2, wherein the width of the conductive line is from 0.8 to 5 centimeters.

4. The wearable action-aware device of claim 1, wherein a line resistance value of the conductive line is not more than 1×

10⁶ ohms.

5. The wearable action-aware device of claim 4, wherein the line resistance value of the conductive line is from 1 to 1×

10⁵ ohms.

6. The wearable action-aware device of claim 1, wherein the conductive coating layer is embedded in the fabric body from one side of the fabric body and has a flat surface, and a thickness of the conductive coating layer is not more than a thickness of the fabric body.

7. The wearable action-aware device of claim 6, wherein the fabric body is weaving fabric.

8. The wearable action-aware device of claim 6, wherein the hydrophobic adhesive is selected from the group consisting of polyurethane, polysiloxane, polyethylene terephthalate, polyacrylate and a combination thereof.

9. The wearable action-aware device of claim 6, wherein the plurality of conductive particles are metallic conductive particles or non-metallic conductive particles.

10. The wearable action-aware device of claim 6, wherein the plurality of conductive particles in the conductive coating layer is from 20 to 70 wt %.