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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2016
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hakim Raja, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ivan Poupyrev, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Youenn Colin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jimmy Chion, Oakland, CA (US);
James R. Yurchenco, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
This document describes connectors for connecting electronics embedded in garments to external devices. The connector is configured to connect an external device to a garment to enable communication between electronics embedded in the garment and electronic components of the external device. The connector may include a connector plug and a connector receptacle. The connector plug may be implemented at the external device and is configured to connect to the connector receptacle, which may be implemented at the garment. In one or more implementations, the connector plug includes an anisotropic material that is configured to connect to a printed circuit board (PCB) implemented at the connector receptacle.