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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2017
Applicant:
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 1/00 (2006.01); G01L 5/00 (2006.01); G01L 1/22 (2006.01); A61B 5/0205 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01L 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G01L 1/14 (2006.01); A61B 5/024 (2006.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/0476 (2006.01); A61B 5/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 1/2287 (2013.01); A61B 5/0205 (2013.01); A61B 5/6804 (2013.01); A61B 5/6843 (2013.01); A61B 5/6892 (2013.01); G01L 1/146 (2013.01); G01L 1/205 (2013.01); G06F 3/0414 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); A61B 5/024 (2013.01); A61B 5/0476 (2013.01); A61B 5/0816 (2013.01); A61B 5/165 (2013.01); A61B 5/6823 (2013.01); A61B 5/6833 (2013.01); A61B 5/6898 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0247 (2013.01); A61B 2562/046 (2013.01);
Abstract
Sensor arrays are provided for sensing pressure and/or moisture over a two-dimensional sensing surface. The sensor arrays comprise ionically conductive materials. Individual sensor elements in the sensor arrays may comprise piezoionic ionically conductive materials, piezoresistive ionically conductive materials and/or capacitive sensor elements having electrodes fabricated from ionically conductive materials. Two-dimensional pressure maps and/or moisture maps of the sensing surface may be obtained by implementing methods comprising scanning over individual sensor elements in the sensor arrays.