Linear spaced dielectric dot separator pressure sensing array incorporating strain release stabilized releasable electric snap stud connectors

A pressure sensing switch array comprising:

• upper, middle and lower laminar substantially rectangular elongated members, said middle member having a plurality of longitudinally aligned substantially rectangular openings there through defining a plurality of cavities between said upper and lower members;
• an array of substantially parallel and equally spaced electrically conductive bands fixed in longitudinal alignment to an upper surface of said lower member and positioned to traverse said cavities;
• an array of substantially parallel and equally spaced electrically conductive bands fixed transversely across a lower surface of said upper member in a direction orthogonal to said lower member bands, selected upper member bands being collectively connected to an electrical input lead and other upper member bands being collectively connected to an electrical output lead;
• an array of linearly arranged and equally spaced dielectric dots fixed to an upper surface of said lower member bands and being arranged to provide a plurality of essentially parallel rows of dielectric dots on said lower member and said dielectric dots providing controlled separation of said electrically conductive arrays on said upper and lower members;
• said upper and lower members being resiliently flexible to permit said controlled separation of said arrays of conductive bands by said dielectric dot array to close into and open out of electrical contact upon exertion and removal respectively of a threshold external compressive force.

A pressure sensing switch array comprising:

• upper, middle and lower laminar non-conductive elongated members, said middle member having at least one opening there through defining at least one cavity between the upper and lower members;
• an array of spaced electrically conductive bands fixed to an upper surface of said lower member and traversing said at least one cavity;
• an array of spaced electrically conductive bands fixed to a lower surface of said upper member and traversing said at least one cavity and said lower member bands, selected upper member bands being connected to an electrical input lead and other upper member bands being connected to an electrical output lead;
• an array of linearly arranged dielectric dots fixed to said upper surface of said lower member and arranged to form parallel rows of dielectric dots providing controlled separation of said upper and lower electrically conductive arrays through said at least one cavity;
• said upper and lower members being resiliently flexible to permit said upper and lower member electrically conductive arrays to close into and open out of electrical contact upon exertion and removal respectively of an appropriate threshold external compressive force.

A pressure sensing switch array comprising:

• a first and a second laminar member having spaced apart opposed interior laminar faces defining a plurality of substantially rectangular longitudinally aligned cavities;
• at least one electrically conductive band fixed longitudinally to said interior face of said first member and traversing said cavities;
• an array of substantially parallel and equally spaced electrically conductive bands fixed transversely across said at least one band of said first member, to said interior face of said second member and traversing said cavities, selected second member bands being connected through a strain relief stabilized releasable electrical snap stud connector into a first electrically conductive network and other second member bands being connected by a second strain relief stabilized releasable electrical snap stud connector into a second electrically conductive network;
• said first and second electrically conductive networks being electrically isolated from each other, said upper and lower members being controllably separated by a matrix of dielectric dots, said upper and lower members being resiliently flexible to permit selected points of said conductive bands to close into and open out of electrical contact upon exertion and removal, respectively, of an appropriate threshold external compressive force.