ELECTRONICS-TO-TEXTILE INTERCONNECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM

• Main Authors: KWOK, Calvin Fook-lam, TIAU, Yeh-yun, STRAKA, Adrian Philip, ZHENG, Michelle, LEIPHART, Christopher Robin
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 04.05.2022
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; CURRENT COLLECTORS; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT; LAUNDERING; LINE CONNECTORS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION,OR SHOCK; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; MEASURING TEMPERATURE; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SURVEYING; TESTING; TEXTILES; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE

An electronic textile system and a docking assembly for the electronic textile system. The system includes a textile substrate, an input device attached to the textile substrate, and a docking assembly attached to the textile substrate for removably receiving a controller device. The docking assembly includes a first electrical interface for mating with a second electrical interface of the controller device. The system includes an electrical conductive pathway network integrated in the textile substrate for electrically coupling the input device and the first electrical interface. The input device may transmit to the controller device electronic signals representing input data when the controller device is received by the docking assembly.