Garment-type electronic device and method for producing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11357104-B2
Application number	US-202017021431-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 15, 2020
Priority date	Feb 12, 2016
Publication date	Jun 7, 2022
Grant date	Jun 7, 2022

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a garment-type electronic device capable of reducing discomfort during the wearing in the garment-type electronic device comprising an electrical wiring using stretchable conductor composition. In a part in contact with a body surface of a garment-type electronic device, a level difference at the boundary between the electrode portion where the conductor is exposed and the wiring portion covered with the insulating cover layer is substantially eliminated, whereby a garment type electronic device with a natural wearing feeling in which discomfort during wearing has been reduced is obtained. Furthermore, by providing the projections and the depressions in the fabric texture on its surface, a more natural wearing feeling is obtained. Such a garment-type electronic device can be produced by a printing transfer method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A garment-type electronic device comprising an electrical wiring comprising a conductor layer, an insulating cover layer, and an insulating underlying layer in a part in contact with a body surface,
wherein the conductor layer consists of conductive particles and an elastomer,
wherein the insulating cover layer consists of an elastomer,
wherein the insulating underlying layer consists of an elastomer,
wherein the conductor layer has a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side surface between the first surface and the second surface,
wherein the insulating underlying layer is on a substrate, and the insulating underlying layer is in contact with both the side surface of the conductor layer and the first surface of the conductor layer, the first surface facing the substrate,
wherein the electrical wiring has substantially no level difference at a boundary between an electrode portion and a wiring portion, and
wherein the conductor layer, the insulating cover layer, and the insulating underlying layer each have an elongation at break of 50% or more and a tensile elastic modulus of 10 to 500 MPa.

2. The garment-type electronic device comprising an electrical wiring according to claim 1 , wherein the electrical wiring comprises the conductor layer, the insulating cover layer, the insulating underlying layer, and an electrode surface layer.

3. The garment-type electronic device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the garment-type electronic device can be deformed at a stretching rate of 10% or more without substantially impairing a conductive function of the conductor layer, an insulation function of the insulating cover layer, and an insulation function of the insulating underlying layer.

4. A garment-type electronic device comprising an electrical wiring comprising at least a conductor layer, an insulating cover layer, and an insulating underlying layer in a part in contact with a body surface,
wherein the conductor layer consists of conductive particles and an elastomer,
wherein the insulating cover layer consists of an elastomer,
wherein the insulating underlying layer consists of an elastomer,
wherein the conductor layer has a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side surface between the first surface and the second surface,
wherein the insulating underlying layer is on a substrate, and the insulating underlying layer is in contact with both the side surface of the conductor layer and the first surface of the conductor layer, the first surface facing the substrate,
wherein a surface of a wiring portion of the electrical wiring has projections and depressions in a shape of fabric texture, and
wherein the conductor layer, the insulating cover layer, and the insulating underlying layer each have an elongation at break of 50% or more and a tensile elastic modulus of 10 to 500 MPa.

5. The garment-type electronic device comprising an electrical wiring according to claim 4 , wherein the electrical wiring comprises at least the conductor layer, the insulating cover layer, the insulating underlying layer, and an electrode surface layer.

6. The garment-type electronic device according to claim 4 ,
wherein, in the projections and the depressions in the shape of fabric texture on the surface of the wiring portion, a repetition pitch of the projections and the depressions is 0.06 mm or more and 12 mm or less on at least one arbitrary straight line.

7. The garment-type electronic device according to claim 4 ,
wherein, in the projections and the depressions in the shape of fabric texture on the surface of the wiring portion, a difference in height between a concave portion and a convex portion is 7 μm or more and 2500 μm or less.

8. The garment-type electronic device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the garment-type electronic device can be deformed at a stretching rate of 10% or more without substantially impairing a conductive function of the conductor layer, an insulation function of the insulating cover layer, and an insulation function of the insulating underlying layer.

Assignees

• Toyo Boseki

Inventors

• Kwon Euichul
• Ishimaru Sonoko
• Irie Michihiko
• Kinami Maki

Classifications

• H05K3/28

  Applying non-metallic protective coatings {(H05K3/0091 takes precedence; methods for intermediate insulating layers for build-up multilayer circuits H05K3/4673)} · CPC title

• H05K3/207

  using a prefabricated paste pattern, ink pattern or powder pattern · CPC title

• H05K1/189

  characterised by the use of flexible or folded printed circuits · CPC title

• H05K1/118

  specially for flexible printed circuits, e.g. using folded portions · CPC title

• H05K1/092 Primary

  Dispersed materials, e.g. conductive pastes or inks · CPC title