PRESSURE MONITORING SHOE

• US 20150018721A1
• Filed: 10/31/2012
• Published: 01/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AdvanPro Limited, Advanpro Technology Development (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: AdvanPro Limited, Advanced Technology Development Facility Incorporated (SVTC Technologies, LLC)
• Inventors: Wang, Yangyong, Wang, Guangfeng
• Application Number:
  US14/376,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20150018721A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/592
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/38 with power sources
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0004 characterised by the type of physiological signal transmitted
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1038 Measuring plantar pressure during gait
• 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 5/6807 Footwear
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7278 Artificial waveform generation or derivation, e.g. synthesising signals from measured signals A61B5/327 takes precedence

Abstract

A pressure monitoring shoe comprises a main shoe body, a data processing device and at least two pressure sensors. The pressure sensors are arranged at one or a plurality of locations where the main shoe body is in contact with a foot, and the pressure sensor comprises a flexible textile sensor and an encapsulation device for encapsulating the flexible textile sensor. The data processing device is arranged in one or more of the sole space, the outside space of the shoe body or the rear space of the heel of the pressure monitoring shoe, and a signal connection line is arranged between the data processing device and the pressure sensor.

Claims

1. A pressure monitoring shoe, comprising a main shoe body, a data processing device, and at least two pressure sensors;

wherein, the pressure sensors are arranged at one or a plurality of locations where the main shoe body is in contact with a foot; and

the data processing device is arranged in one or more of a sole space, an outside space of the shoe body or a rear space of the heel of the pressure monitoring shoe, and a signal connection line is arranged between the data processing device and the pressure sensor.

2. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 1, wherein the pressure sensor comprises a flexible textile sensor and an encapsulation device which for encapsulating the flexible textile sensor, or the pressure sensor is denoted as a pressure sensor of resistance type, capacitive type, inductance type.

3. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 1, wherein the flexible textile sensor comprises a flexible textile layer having a sensing stress, a fixed layer bond on the flexible textile;

no fixed layer is bond on a stress-sensing domain of the flexible textile, and the fixed layer is bond on a fixed domain besides the stress-sensing domain;

a strain of the fixed layer is less than the strain of the flexible textile.

4. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 3, wherein the fixed layer is an inelastic mechanical textile.

5. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 3, wherein the flexible textile layer forms a C shape, and an upper arm and a lower arm of the C shape are the stress-sensing domains;

the fixed layer is fixed on a starting point side, an ending point side, and a left-bending side of the C shape;

the strain of the fixed layer is less than the strain of the flexible textile.

6. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 1, wherein the data processing device comprises a transmitting module, which is configured to receive a signal generated by the pressure sensor and transmit the signal to an external data receiving platform by a wired or a wireless mode.

7. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 1, wherein the data processing device comprises a data storage module, which is configured to receive and storage a signal generated by the pressure sensor, convert the signal generated by the pressure sensor into a pressure data, and storage the pressure data.

8. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 2, wherein the encapsulation device comprises a flexible shell body, the pressure sensor is encapsulated in the flexible shell body and fixed on a bottom substrate of the shell body, the flexible shell body is stretched with the flexible textile sensor being stretched and compressed with the flexible textile sensor being compressed;

or

the encapsulation device comprises a flexible coating, the flexible coating is coated on all sides of the pressure sensor, and the flexible coating is stretched with the flexible textile sensor being stretched and compressed with the flexible textile sensor being compressed.

9. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 3, wherein a connecting electrical wire or a conductive button is bond, mechanically clamped, sewn on double sides of the stress-sensing domain in the strain direction.

10. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 3, wherein the connecting electrical wire or the conductive button is bond, mechanically clamped, sewn on the fixed domain at the double sides of the stress-sensing domain in the strain direction, and the connecting electrical wire or the conductive button is conductively connected with the flexible textile.

11. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 1, further comprising a charging module in the main shoe body, and the charging module is configured to charge for the pressure sensor and the data processing device.

12. The pressure monitoring shoe of claim 11, wherein the charging module is any one of a disposable un-chargeable battery, a chargeable battery, a mechanically charged device.