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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2002
George Marmaropoulos, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Clive Van Heerden, London, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A wearable garment for selectively retaining one or more separable and/or replaceable electrodes or sensors. The wearable garment having a flexible body with an inner surface for positioning the sensors relative to the skin of a wearer, one or more first flexible electrically conductive fasteners affixed to the inner surface, and one or more flexible electrical conductors also affixed to the inner surface so as to electrically cooperate with the one or more first flexible electrically conductive fasteners. The one or more separable and/or replaceable flexible sensors each having a second flexible electrically conductive fastener for separably fastening to the one or more first flexible electrically conductive fasteners to facilitate a complementary electrical connection between the one or more selectively separable and/or flexible sensors and the one or more flexible electrical conductors.