Woven textile with point-to-point conductive trace
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorKelly Marie BOGAN
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Abstract
Conductive wires or traces woven into a textile article as a warp or weft yarn are limited in directionality and beginning and end points. The presently disclosed woven electronic textiles permit electrical traces to begin and end at specific points within an interior of the textile and for runs of the electrical traces to extend continuously at any desired angle and connecting any number of specific points across a textile surface. Such electrical traces are referred to herein as point-to-point conductive traces.
Claims20
A woven textile comprising:
- a warp shed of non-conductive yarn;
- a weft of non-conductive yarn;
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- a conductive yarn woven within the warp shed and the weft and including each of two end points within an interior portion of the woven textile.
A method of manufacturing a woven textile with a point-to-point conductive trace comprising:
- weaving a weft of non-conductive yarn within a warp shed of non-conductive yarn;
- and
- weaving a conductive yarn within the warp shed, the conductive yarn including each of two end points within an interior portion of the woven textile.
A textile loom comprising:
- a full-width picking device to weave a weft of non-conductive yarn within a warp shed of non-conductive yarn;
- a point-to-point picking device;
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- an aerial picking device, the aerial picking device to selectively pass through the warp shed to meet the point-to-point picking device and exchange an end of a conductive yarn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.