Sensor response
First Claim
1. A sensor comprising:
- a first knitted conductive textile plane, a second conductive textile plane, and an intermediate separating plane penetrable by the first knitted conductive textile plane to allow the first conductive textile plane and the second conductive textile plane to make electrical contact under a mechanical interaction;
the intermediate separating plane defines the structural perimeter of each of a plurality of apertures from which the first knitted conductive textile plane deforms towards the second conductive textile plane under a mechanical interaction;
wherein;
the first knitted conductive textile plane has conductive yarn knitted to form a repeating pattern of stitches each comprising a stitch looping portion SLP having a looping portion footprint LPF, the separating plane defines apertures A having an aperture footprint AF, and at least one looping portion footprint LPF is wholly containable within at least one aperture footprint AF.
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Abstract
A sensor having a three layer construction comprising a first knitted conductive textile plane, a second conductive textile plane and an intermediate separating plane penetrable by the first knitted conductive textile plane to allow the first conductive textile plane and the second conductive textile plane to make electrical contact under a mechanical interaction. The intermediate separating plane defines structural endpoints from which the first knitted conductive textile plane deforms towards the second conductive textile plane under a mechanical interaction. The first knitted conductive textile plane has conductive yarn knitted to form a repeating pattern of stitches each comprising a stitch looping portion SLP having a looping portion footprint LPF. Within the sensor, there is at least one of a plurality of described dimensional relationships between stitches of the first knitted conductive textile plane and structural endpoints of the intermediate separating plane.
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20 Claims
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1. A sensor comprising:
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a first knitted conductive textile plane, a second conductive textile plane, and an intermediate separating plane penetrable by the first knitted conductive textile plane to allow the first conductive textile plane and the second conductive textile plane to make electrical contact under a mechanical interaction;
the intermediate separating plane defines the structural perimeter of each of a plurality of apertures from which the first knitted conductive textile plane deforms towards the second conductive textile plane under a mechanical interaction;
wherein;
the first knitted conductive textile plane has conductive yarn knitted to form a repeating pattern of stitches each comprising a stitch looping portion SLP having a looping portion footprint LPF, the separating plane defines apertures A having an aperture footprint AF, and at least one looping portion footprint LPF is wholly containable within at least one aperture footprint AF. - View Dependent Claims (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17)
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2. A sensor comprising:
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a first knitted conductive textile plane, a second conductive textile plane, and an intermediate separating plane penetrable by the first knitted conductive textile plane to allow the first conductive textile plane and the second conductive textile plane to make electrical contact under a mechanical interaction;
the intermediate separating plane defines structural endpoints extending towards the first conductive textile layer that are boundary vertices of a virtual polygonal aperture window and from which the first knitted conductive textile plane deforms towards the second conductive textile plane under a mechanical interaction;
wherein;
the first knitted conductive textile plane has conductive yarn knitted to form a repeating pattern of stitches each comprising a stitch looping portion SLP having a looping portion footprint LPF, the separating plane defines virtual polygonal aperture windows AW having an aperture window footprint AWF, and at least one looping portion footprint LPF is wholly containable within at least one aperture window footprint AWF. - View Dependent Claims (4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18)
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