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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2012
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh, Bad Homburg OT, DE;
John Heppe, St. Wendel, DE;
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, DE;
Abstract
A weaving method for producing a plurality of moisture sensors for a device for monitoring an access to a patient, in particular for monitoring the vascular access in an extracorporeal blood treatment, wherein the moisture sensors are woven. During the weaving of the moisture sensors, non-conductive warp threads, non-conductive weft threads, conductive warp threads and conductive weft threads are disposed in the textile two-dimensionally extending structure, such that spatially demarcatable structures of electrical strip conductors are created. The strip conductor structures can be produced by spatial separation or contacting of the conductive warp or weft threads. In order to be able to produce the moisture sensors cost effectively in large numbers, a plurality of individual moisture sensors are repeatedly woven each time beside one another normal to the production direction on a common woven fabric web as the web progressively advances, so that the width of the woven fabric web is occupied in the best possible way by as many moisture sensors as possible. The individual moisture sensors are separated from one another after weaving.