Patent Issued for Modular Intelligent Clothing (USPTO 10,420,506)

2019 OCT 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx journalists report that a patent by the inventors Tseng, Wen-Tso (New Taipei, Taiwan); Chou, Kuang-Chung (New Taipei, Taiwan); Huang, Shih-Feng (New Taipei, Taiwan); Wang, Yi-Hao (New Taipei, Taiwan), filed on April 13, 2017, was published online on October 7, 2019.

The patent’s assignee for patent number 10,420,506 is Inventec Appliances (New Taipei, Taiwan).

News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “With technology development recently, detection device or wearable device of sensing function have been developed to combine with clothing to detect or record personal physiological states, such as heartbeats, step counts, blood pressure, or sleeping state, which can be used on fields of self-health management at home or preventive medicine.

“However, for elder people or people who become degenerate or disable because of wound or surgery to stay at home for home health management, it is difficult and inconvenient for them to put on or take off clothing with detection device or wearable device, and the weight of detection device or wearable device often have a load for them.

“Besides, detection device or wearable device is vulnerable to dropping without good attachment on clothing or damage without careful putting-on or taking-off. Furthermore, without good attachment between detection device/wearable device and clothing is not ergonomic for people and often makes user unconformable. Consequently, the purpose of intelligent clothing is not achieved because of issues aforementioned.”

As a supplement to the background information on this patent, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “With respect to the issues aforementioned, a modular intelligent clothing is provided herein to modularize current functions so as to enable them be arranged in clothing anytime for flexible design and rapid production.

“With respect to the issues aforementioned, a modular intelligent clothing is provided herein to have a modular main board that may be tightly attached to clothing, ergonomically wearable like typical clothing, and conformable to people without sensing its existence.

“With respect to the issues aforementioned, a modular intelligent clothing is provided herein to enable user both wear clothes including a modular main board without additional loading and take off the clothes without damage on the modular main board.

“With respect to the issues aforementioned, a modular intelligent clothing is provided herein to have a main board which may be modularized, developed independently and/or up-grated, and selectively arranged with different functions for user’s requirement to achieve customization, convenience, and good competition.

“With respect to the issues aforementioned, a modular intelligent clothing is provided herein to have a modular main board easy to be disassembled, water-proof to be washed with clothes without circuit damage or circuit short, and good lifetime.

“Accordingly, a modular intelligent clothing is provided to include: a clothing body; a metal conductor, the metal conductor arranged within the clothing body to form a circuit loop therein; a modular main board disposed at any position of the clothing body and electrically connected with the metal conductor, and having a power supply module therein; and a functional board disposed at any position of the clothing body and electrically connected with the modular main board.

“Accordingly, a modular intelligent clothing is provided to include: a clothing body; a modular main board, the modular main board disposed at any position of the clothing body and having a first power supply module therein; and a functional board having a second power supply module, disposed at any position of the clothing body, and wirelessly electrically connected with the modular main board.

“Accordingly, a pairing system used for the modular intelligent clothing is provided to include: a clothing body; a modular main board disposed at any position of the clothing body; and a functional board disposed at any position of the clothing body and electrically connected with the modular main board, wherein a power supply module is configured to supply a power to the modular main board or the functional board.

“In one embodiment, in case that the functional board is deposited within range of magnetic induction of the modular main board, the modular main board is triggered to match with the functional board in a way of magnetic induction.

“In one embodiment, in case that the functional board is deposited within wireless transmission range of the modular main board, the modular main board within the clothing body matches with the functional board in wireless way.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“What is claimed is:

“1. A modular intelligent clothing, comprising: a clothing body; a metal conductor, the metal conductor is arranged in the clothing body to form a circuit loops therein; a modular main board, the modular main board is disposed at any position of the clothing body, electrically connected with the metal conductor, and having a power supply module therein; and a functional board, the functional board is disposed at any position of the clothing body and electrically connected with the modular main board, wherein the modular main board is electrically connected with the functional board by a magnetic induction, and the modular main board supplies a power supply module for the functional board through the magnetic induction.

“2. The modular intelligent clothing according to claim 1, wherein the metal conductor is constituted by a metal wire or a plurality of metal wires.

“3. The modular intelligent clothing according to claim 1, wherein the metal conductor is distributed in a spiral in the clothing body.

“4. The modular intelligent clothing according to any one of claim 1, wherein the metal conductor is a soft metal wire.

“5. The modular intelligent clothing according to claim 1, wherein the modular main board is electrically connected with the functional board by the metal conductor.

“6. The modular intelligent clothing according to claim 1, wherein the modular main board having a main functional module, and the main functional module at least includes a control module, a processing module, a transmission and receiving module, a memory, or any combination of above.

“7. A pairing system is used for the modular intelligent clothing, comprising: a clothing body; a modular main board, the modular main board is disposed at any position of the clothing body; and a functional board, the functional board is disposed at any position of the clothing body, and the functional board is electrically connected with the modular main board, wherein a power supply module is configured to supply a power to the modular main board or the functional board, wherein the pairing system further comprising a metal conductor is arranged in the clothing body to form a circuit loops therein, and when the functional board is disposed on the circuit loops, the modular main board is triggered to be matched with the functional board.

“8. The pairing system according to claim 7, wherein when the functional board is disposed within a magnetic induction range of the modular main board, the modular main board is triggered to be matched with the functional board through a magnetic induction.

“9. The pairing system according to claim 7, wherein the modular main board is a hub for modular setting or controlling the functional board.

“10. The pairing system according to claim 7, wherein the modular main board is used as a hub through other intelligent terminals.”

For additional information on this patent, see: Tseng, Wen-Tso; Chou, Kuang-Chung; Huang, Shih-Feng; Wang, Yi-Hao. Modular Intelligent Clothing. U.S. Patent Number 10,420,506, filed April 13, 2017, and published online on October 7, 2019. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=10,420,506.PN.&OS=PN/10,420,506RS=PN/10,420,506

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