33 results about "Textile electrodes" patented technology

A seamless, smart fetal monitoring garment and methods of using thereof. The system includes a knitted or interwoven garment having a multiplicity of conductive textile electrodes for sensing maternal and fetal electrical vital signals. The maternal and fetal electrical vital signals are selected from a group including maternal heart rate, fetal heart rate and electromyogram (EMG) activities including uterine activities. The method includes wearing the garment, acquiring electrical mixed common, maternal and fetal vital signals from surface region of a pregnant woman, using the plurality of textile electrodes, optimally weighted summing-up the acquired signals, analyzing the summed-up signals to thereby extract the maternal signal and the fetal signal, including determining their heart rates, and including detecting health hazards and in some embodiments, including detecting a uterine contraction sequence suggesting the need to be hospitalized for birth giving.

A textile electrode device, for detection of electrophysiological signals from the skin of a subject, having: a substrate designed to be positioned on the skin; at least a first detection electrode arranged on the substrate; and at least a first conducting element, carried by the substrate and electrically connected to the first detection electrode. The first detection electrode has a plurality of textile fibres, including conductive fibres and, optionally, fibres of a super-absorbent material, arranged in a direction substantially orthogonal to an upper surface of the substrate and reciprocally in contact with each other, so as to ensure uniform electrical contact over the entire first detection electrode. In particular, the first detection electrode is obtained by means of the flocking technique.

The present invention relates to a device for humidification of a textile electrode (1) comprising a first layer (3); a second layer (5); and a material (4) capable of absorbing and retaining water; in which the material (4) capable of absorbing and retaining water is situated between the first layer (3) and the second layer (5); the first layer (3) is impermeable to water and to water vapour; andthe second layer (5) is permeable to water in a direction running from the outside towards the material capable of absorbing and retaining water, and impermeable to water and permeable to water vapour in the opposite direction. The present invention also relates to a system comprising such a humidification device.

Disclosed are a sensor for measuring a tilt angle based on electronic textile according to the present invention and a method thereof. A sensor for measuring a tilt angle based on electronic textile according to the present invention includes a plurality of textile electrodes disposed at predetermined uniform intervals on a textile surface; a textile conductive wire of which one end is connected to a center between the plurality of textile electrodes; and a metal bead connected to another end of the textile conductive wire to thereby be connected to the textile surface.

A novel sweat absorbing textile electrode comprises a textile electrode body and an electrical coupling member, the textile electrode body comprising a conductive foam and a conductive fabric wrapped around the conductive foam, the electrical coupling member being fixed on the conductive fabric; wherein a through hole is provided on the conductive fabric on the side in contact with the human skin. The textile electrode has a light weight, small size and soft texture. It fits on the skin, has good air permeability, and is capable to absorb sweat, which can prevent short circuit between electrodes caused by sweat and be used for collecting bioelectrical signal when sweat comes out from human body. It may also be applied in bioelectrical signal monitoring in high temperature, high humidity environment, and during daily exercise.

The invention relates to an abdominal support belt, comprising a wearable abdominal support belt body, a textile monitoring layer detachably arranged in the physiological monitoring area of ​​the abdominal support belt body, and a data processing module connected to the data of the textile monitoring layer, the textile monitoring layer There are several flexible pressure sensors and several textile electrodes that transmit monitoring information to the data processing module, and the data processing module is composed of any three flexible pressure sensors that are located around the strip-shaped textile electrodes and not on the same side of the strip-shaped textile electrodes. The triangular plane and its epitaxial surface are used as the monitoring plane where the strip-shaped textile electrodes are located, and the average pressure values ​​of the three flexible pressure sensors forming the triangle are counted, and the marked average pressure value is the electrode pressure value of the monitoring plane where the strip-shaped textile electrodes are located. When the electrode pressure value reaches the preset pressure range, the data processing module performs statistics and analysis on the monitoring information collected by the strip-shaped textile electrode. The textile electrode of the invention can collect signals stably.

The present invention is related to a textile electrode (1) for measuring an electrical signal from a body part, said electrode comprising, successively from the side to be applied on the body part to the outside: a conductive textile contact (3) to be applied to said body part; a textile support (2) for supporting said textile contact (3); a vapor barrier sheet material (7) able to reduce, in use, evaporation of liquid from said textile electrode (1).

The invention provides a wearable vital sign monitoring device and a mental status monitoring method. The wearable vital sign monitoring device comprises two parts, namely a wearable multi-sign acquiring device and a server, wherein the wearable multi-sign acquiring device consists of a vital sign acquiring module and a processing and communicating module; acquisition of different physiological signals is realized by the vital sign acquiring module; the physiological signals are processed and integrated by an embedded lower-power-consumption processor, then are transmitted to a server side by the communicating module in a wireless mode and are stored and processed in the server; the mental status monitoring method provides a method for evaluating a mental status on the basis of sign signal data. According to the wearable vital sign monitoring device and the mental status monitoring method provided by the invention, by combining with a flexible processing technique and using a textile electrode, leads and various textile sensors embedded into clothes, lightness and comfortableness of the device are ensured while multiple physiological parameters are acquired; further analysis, exploitation and utilization of the acquired sign parameters are realized, and real-time judgment and early warning of a body and the mental status are realized.