US 2021/0100460 A1Published application

Conformable Garment for Physiological Sensing

AssigneeMassachusetts Institute of Technology

InventorsCanan Dagdeviren, Irmandy Wicaksono

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Abstract

A conformable garment may fit snugly against, and may exert pressure against, skin in a region of a user's body. The garment may house multiple sensors that touch the user's skin. Each sensor may exposed to the user's skin through a hole in an inner surface of the garment. The garment may include elongated channels. Flexible, stretchable wiring may pass through a hollow central region of each channel. This wiring may provide electrical power to the sensors, and may enable wired communication between the sensors and a main hub. Each sensor may include an integrated chip and may be encapsulated in a waterproof material. Each sensor may output electrical signals that encode digital data and that are transmitted, via the wiring, to a main hub housed in the garment. The encapsulated sensors and the wiring may remain in the garment when the garment is washed.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

(a) exerting, with an inner surface of a garment, pressure against a user in such a way that at least a portion of the pressure is greater than 1 mmHg and less than 41 mmHg, and is due to elastic stretching of the garment;
(b) measuring, with a set of sensors housed in or on the garment, one or more physiological aspects of the user while the exerting of pressure occurs;
and
(c) sending, from each particular sensor in the set of sensors, electrical signals that travel to one or more processors via electrical wiring and that encode digital data which represents or is derived from measurements taken by the particular sensor;
wherein
(i) the one or more processors are separate from the set of sensors and are located in or on the garment, and
(ii) each particular sensor in the set of sensors (A) includes an integrated chip, (B) is waterproof, (C) touches skin of the user during the measuring, and (D) either (I) is part of, or is attached to, or protrudes through the inner surface of the garment, or (II) is exposed to the skin of the user through one or more holes in the inner surface of the garment.

4 more elements

A system comprising:

(a) a garment;
(b) a set of sensors housed in or on the garment;
(c) electrical wiring housed in or on the garment;
and
(d) one or more processors;
wherein
(i) the one or more processors are separate from the set of sensors and are located in or on the garment,
(ii) the set of sensors is configured to take measurements of one or more physiological aspects of the user,
(iii) each particular sensor in the set of sensors
(A) includes an integrated chip,
(B) is waterproof,
(c) is configured to send electrical signals that travel to the one or more processors via the electrical wiring and that encode digital data which represents or is derived from measurements taken by the particular sensor, and
(D) either (I) is part of, or is attached to, or protrudes through the inner surface of the garment, or (II) is exposed through one or more holes in the inner surface of the garment, and
(iv) the garment is configured to exert pressure, when worn by a user, against the user in such a way that
(A) at least a portion of the pressure is greater than 1 mmHg and less than 41 mmHg and is due to elastic stretching of the garment, and
(B) each sensor in the set of sensors touches skin of the user while the measurements are taken and the pressure is exerted.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/032,699Filed 25 Sep 2020
Priority: 2 Oct 2019
Published: 8 Apr 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification68 codes

A61B 5/02055
Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition:…
A41D 1/002
Garments: adapted to accommodate electronic equipment
A41D 13/1281
Patients' garments: with incorporated means for medical monitoring
A41D 31/185
Elastic: using layered materials

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Application62/909,673Us provisional application · filed 2 Oct 2019
US 2021/0100460 A1This patent

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