Wearable transmission device
AssigneeFoster-Miller, Inc.
InventorsPatricia Wilson, Justyna Teverovsky, Brian Farrell, Wendy B. Horowitz, Carole A. Winterhalter, Richard A. Covel, Edward Joseph Tierney
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Abstract
A knitted, woven, or braided textile ribbon including fibers and having a length and selvage edges and one or more transmission elements running the length of the ribbon in place of one or more of the fibers and integrated with the fibers to transmit data and/or power along the length of the ribbon.
Claims76
A data or power transmission device comprising:
- a plurality of textile fibers;
- one or more-shielded data and/or power transmission elements each having a length delimited by two ends integrated with the textile fibers;
- and
- a flat single layer ribbon having a length and two selvage edges parallel to its length and two ends that delimit its length, the ribbon constructed from knitting, weaving or braiding of the textile fibers and the one or more data and/or power transmission elements.
A wearable data or power transmission system comprising:
- a garment;
- a first subsystem;
- a second subsystem;
- and
- a knitted, woven, or braided textile ribbon having a length which extends between the first and second subsystems, the ribbon including:
- fibers,
- selvage edges, and
- one or more transmission elements running the length of the ribbon in place of one or more of the fibers, each transmission element connectable on one end to the first subsystem and connectable on the other end to the second subsystem to establish a data or power transmission link between the first and second subsystems,
- the first subsystem attached at one location on the garment, the second subsystem attached at a second location, and the ribbon attached to the garment to extend between the first and second subsystems.
A data or power transmission system comprising:
- a textile article;
- a first subsystem;
- a second subsystem;
- and
- a knitted, woven, or braided textile ribbon having a length which extends between the first and second subsystems, the ribbon including:
- fibers,
- selvage edges, and
- one or more transmission elements running the length of the ribbon in place of one or more of the fibers, each transmission element connectable on one end to the first subsystem and connectable on the other end to the second subsystem to establish a data or power transmission link between the first and second subsystems,
- the first subsystem attached at one location on the textile article, the second subsystem attached at a second location, and the ribbon attached to the textile article to extend between the first and second subsystems.
A method of making a wearable data or power transmission device, the method comprising:
- knitting, weaving or braiding a plurality of textile fibers and one or more shielded data and/or power transmission elements into a flat, long and narrow ribbon having two selvage edges;
- and
- cutting the flat ribbon into lengths to produce multiple data or power transmission devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.