Removable footwear degradation sensor reader
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsAndrew P. Bonifas, Brock A. Hable, Nicholas T. Gabriel, Ronald D. Jesme, Nicholas G. Amell, Kristy A. Jost
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Abstract
A shoe degradation sensor assembly includes a first sensor disposed in or proximate to a material layer of a shoe between a foot space and an outer surface of the shoe, and an electrical contact assembly operable to removably electrically connect the shoe degradation sensor assembly to a reader. The material layer changes in at least one physical property with degradation to the shoe, and the first sensor is configured to indicate the changing physical property of the material layer thereby indicating a degree of degradation to the shoe.
Claims13
A shoe degradation sensor reader comprising:
- a contact assembly configured to removably electrically couple to an LC (inductor-capacitor) tag disposed in or proximate to a material layer of a shoe, the material layer having at least one physical property that changes with degradation of the shoe, the LC tag having a resonant property affected by the at least one physical property of the material layer, the LC tag configured to indicate the at least one physical property of the material layer thereby indicating a degree of the degradation of the shoe;
- a reader module operable to:
- query the LC tag via the contact assembly;
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- measure the at least one physical property of the material layer via the first sensor LC tag;
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- a communication module operable to communicate the measurement of the at least one physical property of the material layer from the shoe degradation sensor reader to an electronic device.
A shoe degradation sensor assembly comprising:
- a material layer positioned between a foot space of a shoe and an outer surface of the shoe;
- an LC (inductor-capacitor) tag in or proximate to the material layer of the shoe, wherein the material layer changes in at least one physical property with degradation of the shoe, the LC tag having a resonant property affected by the at least one physical property of the material layer, the LC tag being configured to indicate the at least one physical property of the material layer thereby indicating a degree of the degradation of the shoe;
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- a contact assembly configured to connect the shoe degradation sensor assembly to a reader module that is operable to query the LC tag via the contact assembly, thereby measuring the at least one physical property of the material layer of the shoe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.