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US 6,856,715 B1Granted
Apparatus comprising electronic and/or optoelectronic circuitry and method for realizing said circuitry
AssigneeThin Film Electronics ASA
InventorsThomas Ebbesen, Per-Erik Nordal
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Abstract
An apparatus/method for producing fabric-like electronic circuit patterns created by methodically joining electronic elements using textile fabrication-like methods in a predetermined arrangement.
Claims39
A web of circuitry comprising:
- at least two circuit elements, each having ends;
- at least one physical intersection of said elements, where the intersection does not occur at the ends of said elements;
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- a predetermined circuit pattern, wherein said elements are arranged in multiple-dimensions according to said pattern, where the intersection is a point of communication between elements, where the intersections and varying properties of the elements form active regions, where the active regions are associated with circuitry in the pattern, where at least one element is a transmission line or an isolator and
- wherein said elements are arranged in said predetermined circuit pattern by integrating said elements using weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or stitching.
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The apparatus according to claim 35, wherein the pattern contains elements that are discrete electronic, optoelectronic or optical devices or combinations thereof.
The apparatus according to claim 35, wherein one or more of the elements are a physical or chemical sensors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.