Fabric Circuit Board Connecting to Flexible Sensors or Rigid Components for Wearable Applications.

ABSTRACT: Electronic textiles demand a new family of flexible circuit boards in the construction of fiber or fiber assemblies. This paper presents a stretchable woven fabric circuit board (FCB) with permanent as well as detachable electrical connections to sensors or other wearable electronics components. The woven FCB was created by integrating conductive yarns into an elastic woven fabric. Permanent connection was designed between the conductive tracks and flexible sensors; detachable connection was achieved by the helical structure of conductive yarns wrapping around the rigid component electrode encapsulated within elastomeric layer. The developed FCB, with its connections to flexible sensors or rigid components, is porous, flexible, and capable of stretching to 30% strain. The woven FCB with pe

SUBMITTER: Li Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6749427 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature