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US 12,495,856 B2Granted
Writing to apparel by flexing piezoelectric generator
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsKeith A. Folske, Vikram Malhotra, Holli Pheil, Summer L. Schneider
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Abstract
A wearable article, a system, and methods include a structural material configured to enable the wearable article to the worn on a body, a piezoelectric generator, positioned with respect to the structural material in a configuration to be flexed to output a voltage, a data translator, coupled to the piezoelectric generator, configured to output electronic data based on the voltage, and an electronic data storage, coupled to the data translator, configured to store the electronic data from the data translator.
Claims27
A wearable article, comprising:
- a structural material configured to enable the wearable article to be worn on a body;
- a piezoelectric generator, positioned with respect to the structural material in a configuration to be flexed to output a voltage;
- a data translator, coupled to the piezoelectric generator, configured to output electronic data based on the voltage;
- and
- wherein the voltage includes a peak voltage, relative to a baseline voltage, of a pulse, a rise time of the pulse, a fall time of the pulse, and a pulse duration, and wherein a change in a voltage profile is based on a change in the voltage profile of at least one of the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration, and wherein the data translator generates digital data bits based on at least one of the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration of a pulse;
- and
- wherein the data translator is configured to generate the electronic data based on at least one of:
- the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration of a single pulse.
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A method for making a wearable article, comprising:
- forming a structural material to enable the wearable article to be worn on a body;
- positioning a piezoelectric generator with respect to the structural material in a configuration to be flexed to output a voltage;
- coupling a data translator to the piezoelectric generator, the data translator configured to output electronic data based on the voltage;
- and
- wherein the voltage includes a peak voltage, relative to a baseline voltage, of a pulse, a rise time of the pulse, a fall time of the pulse, and a pulse duration, and wherein a change in a voltage profile is based on a change in the voltage profile of at least one of the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration, and wherein the data translator generates digital data bits based on at least one of the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration of a pulse;
- and
- wherein the data translator is configured to generate the electronic data based on at least one of:
- the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration of a single pulse.
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A method, comprising,
- flexing a wearable article according to a predetermined pattern corresponding to electronic data, the wearable article comprising a piezoelectric generator, wherein flexing the wearable article causes the piezoelectric generator to flex;
- wherein flexing the wearable article causes the piezoelectric generator to output a voltage;
- wherein a data translator, coupled to the piezoelectric generator, outputs electronic data based on the voltage;
- and
- wherein the voltage includes a peak voltage, relative to a baseline voltage, of a pulse, a rise time of the pulse, a fall time of the pulse, and a pulse duration, and wherein a change in a voltage profile is based on a change in the voltage profile of at least one of the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration, and wherein the data translator generates digital data bits based on at least one of the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration of a pulse;
- and
- wherein the data translator is configured to generate the electronic data based on at least one of:
- the peak voltage, the rise time, the fall time, and the pulse duration of a single pulse.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.