Connector Integration for Smart Clothing

a technology of connecting threads and smart clothing, applied in contact forms, instruments, weaving, etc., can solve the problems of difficulty for manufacturers to attach individual conductive threads to electronic components, and achieve the effect of improving the integration efficiency of the connection field

Active Publication Date: 2018-09-13
GOOGLE LLC
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Benefits of technology

This patented technology allows for better control over how much space we use interacting objects like clothes during their usage cycle. It achieves this through connecting multiple threads together along its length instead of just adding them all around it. These connections are designed without any part attached outside but inside the body of these things they connect to. They also allow some movement within certain parts of those items while still maintaining good connection quality.

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This patented technology allows an interactive textile made up from multiple layers of conductor threads to create a small area where it's possible to sense pressure without being attached electrically. However, this method cannot work effectively when there were no other materials like these metals inside them because they could affect their performance.

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[0038]FIG. 1 is an illustration of an example environment 100 in which an interactive textile with multiple electronics modules can be implemented. Environment 100 includes an interactive textile 102, which is shown as being integrated within various interactive objects 104. Interactive textile 102 is a textile that is configured to sense multi-touch-input. As described herein, a textile corresponds to any type of flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibers, often referred to as thread or yarn. Textiles may be formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, pressing threads together or consolidating fibers or filaments together in a nonwoven manner.

[0039]In environment 100, interactive objects 104 include “flexible” objects, such as a shirt 104-1, a hat 104-2, a handbag 104-3 and a shoe 104-6. It is to be noted, however, that interactive textile 102 may be integrated within any type of flexible object made from fabric or a similar flexible materia

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This document describes an interactive object with multiple electronics modules. An interactive object (e.g., a garment) includes a plurality of conductive threads woven into the interactive object, and an internal electronics module coupled to the array of conductive thread. The internal electronics module includes a first subset of electronic components, such as sensing circuitry configured to detect touch-input to the grid of conductive thread. An external electronics module that includes a second subset of electronic components (e.g., a microprocessor, power source, or network interface) is removably coupled to the interactive object via a communication interface. The communication interface enables communication between the internal electronics module and the external electronics module when the external electronics module is coupled to the interactive object.

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