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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2008
Baohua Qi, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Benjamin R. Mattes, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Baohua Qi, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Benjamin R. Mattes, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Santa Fe Science and Technology, Inc., Santa Fe, NM (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes the use of conducting polymers as sensors in distributed sensing systems, as sensors and operating elements in multifunctional devices, and for conducting-polymer based multifunctional sensing fabrics suitable for monitoring humidity, breath, heart rate, blood (location of wounds), blood pressure, skin temperature, weight and movement, in a wearable, electronic embedded sensor system, as examples. A fabric comprising conducting polyaniline fibers that can be used to distribute energy for resistive heating as well as for sensing the fabric temperature is described as an example of a multifunctional sensing fabric.