Substrate layer adapted to carry sensors, actuators or electrical components
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorAlexander Padiy
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Abstract
A substrate layer structure (100) is adapted to carry electronic device, or components, or electro-mechanical, or electro-chemical sensors, or a combination thereof, and is adapted to be attached to a surface of a human or animal body or biological species. The surface of the flexible substrate layer structure is patterned with a pre-fixed geometry formed by one or more slits (101-701, 502-702). The geometry is selected such that a stretchability of the substrate layer structure becomes adapted to the geometry of the body surface under it.
Claims22
A substrate layer structure configured to carry sensors, actuators, electronic components, or a combination thereof, and configured to be attached to a surface of a human or animal body or biological species, the layer structure including:
- a first flexible substrate layer which includes a pattern defined by one or more slits of pre-fixed geometry in the first flexible layer, and the geometry selected such that the first flexible substrate layer stretches to a geometry of the body surface adjacent the first flexible substrate layer;
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- wherein the pattern of the pre-fixed geometry of the first flexible substrate layer is formed by a slit forming a cam-like structure.
A sensor assembly, comprising:
- a flexible and stretchable substrate multi-layer structure, wherein the surface of each layer of the flexible and stretchable substrate multi-layer structure is a nested spiral having attached thereto a number of temperature sensors, said nested spiral formed by one or more slits such that the substrate layer structure stretches to become adapted to a geometry of a body surface under the substrate layer structure, and wherein the layers of the multi-layer structure are separated by a first thermally insulating, stretchable and flexible layer, and one of said layers is mounted in a second thermally insulating, stretchable and flexible layer.
A substrate layer structure, comprising:
- a plurality of sandwiched flexible substrate layers configured to conform to an ellipsoidally shaped surface of a human or animal body or biological species, and the first flexible substrate layer includes a pattern of one or more slits of a pre-fixed geometry which stretches to expand the first flexible substrate layer in at least two dimensions to conform to the ellipsoidally shaped surface;
- a plurality of sensors attached to the flexible substrate layers;
- and wherein the one or more slits includes cuts which expand the first flexible substrate layer in the at least two dimensions to conform to the ellipsoidally shaped surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.