Clothing with minimized motion artifact having textile electrode kit mounted thereto

• US 10,172,554 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
• Original Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp
• Inventors: Lee, Joo Hyeon, Lee, Jeong-Whan, Lee, Young-Jae, Koo, Hye Ran
• Primary Examiner(s): KIM, EUN HWA
• Application Number:
  US14/478,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20150065842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,586 Days
• Field of Search: 600388, 600389, 600390
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/053 Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of a portion of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/282 Holders for multiple electrodes for introduction into the body A61B5/287
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/296 for electromyography [EMG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6804 Garments; Clothes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6823 Trunk, e.g., chest, back, abdomen, hip

Abstract

A textile electrode kit mounted to the clothing includes a contact-type electrode or a non-contact electrode, and the textile electrode kit may be mounted to a clothing having a lower fixed member configured to reduce a motion artifact and a partially three-dimensional clothing structure by means of sewing. On occasions, the textile electrode kit having a non-contact electrode may be inserted into and used in an electrode-mounting pocket or an electrode-mounting tunnel formed at the clothing. The textile electrode kit of the present disclosure may detect various kinds of bio signals such as a heart activity signal, an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, an electromyogram signal, a breathing signal or the like.

Claims

1. A clothing for detecting a bio-signal, comprising:

right and left elastic members respectively located below right and left under-armpits or right and left chests;

a front center band comprising;

a chest center elastic member located at a center of the front center band;

a left front center band made of a non-elastic material, one end of the left front center band being mounted to one end of the left elastic member, the other end of the left front center band being mounted to one end of the chest center elastic member; and

a right front center band made of a non-elastic material, one end of the right front center band being mounted to one end of the right elastic member, the other end of the right front center band being mounted to the other end of the chest center elastic member;

a back center band made of a non-elastic material with a band shape and located at a rear sheet of the clothing, one end of the back center band being mounted to the other end of the left elastic member, the other end of the back center band being mounted to the other end of the right elastic member;

a back lower central dart vertically extending from a center of a lower end of the back center band to a waist portion, so that the clothing forms a three-dimensional shape having a concave portion between the lower end of the back center band and the waist portion that is configured to conform to a lower spinal curvature of a wearer;

a front upper central dart vertically extending from a neckline center of center elastic member, so that the clothing forms a three-dimensional shape of a chest surface that is configured to conform to a cleavage and breasts of the wearer; and

a textile electrode kit mounted to at least one of the front center band and the back center band.

2. The clothing according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the front center band and the back center band is disposed at an inner side of the clothing which is configured to contact the skin of the wearer.

3. The clothing according to claim 1, wherein a sleeve portion connecting shoulders and arms of the clothing is formed with a mesh structure, a slit structure, a cut-out structure, a folding structure or a pleat structure.

4. The clothing according to claim 1, wherein a neck girth of the clothing is formed with a mesh structure, a slit structure, a cut-out structure, a folding structure or a pleat structure.

5. The clothing according to claim 1, wherein the textile electrode kit includes:

an electrode having a surface electrode and configured to contact the skin of the wearer to detect the bio signal;

a lower fixed member having one surface to which the electrode is mounted;

a three-dimensional structure mounted to the other surface of the lower fixed member;

a signal detection module located on the three-dimensional structure and mounted in a housing and configured to amplify the bio signal received from the electrode and remove artifact therefrom; and

an upper cover member configured to surround the signal detection module and having a rim which is sewed or attached together with a rim of the lower fixed member.

6. The clothing according to claim 1, wherein the textile electrode kit includes:

an electrode having a spiral coil formed on a coil-mounted textile sheet to receive an oscillation signal from an oscillation circuit and output the oscillation signal including the bio signal;

a three-dimensional structure located on the electrode;

a signal detection module located on the three-dimensional structure and mounted in a housing, the signal detection module including an electrode driving unit which has the oscillation circuit to output the oscillation signal, the signal detection module is configured to detect the oscillation signal which includes the bio signal from the electrode and amplify the detected bio signal and removing artifact therefrom; and

an upper cover member configured to surround the signal detection module and having a rim which is sewed or attached together with a rim of the coil-mounted textile sheet or sewed or attached together with of a lower fixed member located below the electrode.

7. The clothing according to claim 1, wherein the textile electrode kit includes:

an electrode having a spiral coil formed on a coil-mounted textile sheet to receive an oscillation signal from an oscillation circuit and output the oscillation signal including the bio signal;

a three-dimensional structure located above a lower fixed member and below the electrode; and

an upper cover member configured to surround the electrode and having a rim which is sewed or attached together with a rim of the lower fixed member.

8. The clothing according to claim 1, wherein the textile electrode kit includes:

an electrode having a spiral coil formed on a coil-mounted textile sheet to receive an oscillation signal from an oscillation circuit and output the oscillation signal including the bio signal;

a three-dimensional structure located below the electrode; and

a lower fixed member having one surface to which the three-dimensional structure is mounted, the lower fixed member having a rim which is sewed together with a rim of the coil-mounted textile sheet.