Flexible circuit structures including connection arrangement connected to load measurement lead
AssigneeKardium Inc.
InventorsDaniel Robert Weinkam, Shane Fredrick Miller-Tait, Fernando Luis de Souza Lopes
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Abstract
Some aspects of this disclosure generally are related to improving the robustness of a flexible circuit structure, for example, by providing fault-tolerant electrical pathways for flow of electric current through the flexible circuit structure. In some embodiments, such fault tolerance is enhanced by way of a conductive mesh provided between an adjacent pair of resistive elements. Some aspects are related to improved voltage, current, or voltage and current measurement associated with various pairs of adjacent resistive elements at least when the various pairs have differing distances between them.
Claims21
A flexible circuit structure comprising:
- at least one nonconductive flexible layer comprising an electrically insulative material;
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- one or more conductive flexible circuit layers proximate the at least one nonconductive flexible layer, each of the one or more conductive flexible circuit layers comprising an electrically conductive material, wherein the one or more conductive flexible circuit layers comprises or comprise:
- a plurality of electrical-connection-arrangements;
- a plurality of electrical loads electrically connected in series by the plurality of electrical-connection-arrangements, each electrical-connection-arrangement of the plurality of electrical-connection-arrangements electrically connecting a respective adjacent pair of electrical loads of the plurality of electrical loads;
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- a plurality of electrical-load-measurement leads, each electrically connected to a respective electrical-connection-arrangement of the plurality of electrical-connection-arrangements,
- wherein a first electrical-connection-arrangement of the plurality of electrical-connection-arrangements is electrically connected at a first number of one or more electrical connection points to a first electrical-load-measurement lead of the plurality of electrical-load-measurement leads, and
- wherein a second electrical-connection-arrangement of the plurality of electrical-connection-arrangements is electrically connected at a second number of electrical connection points to a second electrical-load-measurement lead of the plurality of electrical-load-measurement leads, the second number greater than the first number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.