BODY PRESSURE MEASURING WEAR

• Main Authors: EJIMA MITSUAKI, TANAKA TOSHIYUKI, MASE KENJI, SHIMAGAMI YUKI, ENOHORI YU, SUZUKI AKIHISA, MIZUNO HIROTAKA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 13.04.2017
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES; HUMAN NECESSITIES; LOOMS; METHODS OF WEAVING; OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; TEXTILES; WEARING APPAREL; WEAVING; WOVEN FABRICS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give a wearer of a garment no foreign-body sensation even when giving a pressure sensitive function to the garment, by functioning a woven fabric normally used as the material of garments as a pressure sensor.SOLUTION: There is included an electroconductive woven fabric 10 in which an electroconductive yarn having conductivity comprises warp and weft. In the electroconductive woven fabric 10, the warp and the weft oppositely arranged in the thickness direction are formed in a state in which an interval between the warp and the weft oppositely arranged changes when receiving pressure added in the thickness direction. A garment 100 wearable by a subject for whom pressure added to the body surface from the outside is measured is formed by using the electroconductive woven fabric 10, and pressure to be added to the subject is detected via the garment 100 on the basis of change in an electrostatic capacity between the oppositely arranged warp and weft.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】衣服の素材として常用される織物を圧力センサとして機能させることにより、衣服に感圧機能を持たせても、衣服の着用者に異物感を感じさせないようにする。【解決手段】導電性を備える導電糸を、経糸と緯糸とした導電性織物１０を備え、この導電性織物１０は、その厚さ方向に対向配置された前記経糸と緯糸とが、厚さ方向に加えられる圧力を受けたとき、前記対向配置された経糸と緯糸との間隔が変化する状態で構成されている。体の表面に外部から加えられる圧力を計測される被検体が着用可能な衣服１００が導電性織物１０を用いて形成されて成り、前記対向配置された経糸と緯糸との間の静電容量の変化に基づいて、衣服１００を介して被検体に加えられる圧力を検出する。【選択図】図１