Abstract: A contact sensor and system for incorporation within clothing and other wearable items to monitor activity at a body surface. The sensor includes a contact membrane having a body surface contacting area and one or more base layers of knitted fabric. The base layer(s) is thicker over an area congruent with the body surface contacting area of the contact membrane. As a result, the contact membrane is urged into the forming of a raised outer surface for projection against a body surface.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 26, 2022
Publication date:
February 16, 2023
Applicant:
NEXTLIFE WEARABLES LIMITED
Inventors:
Christopher Mark Pedley, Ben McCarthy, Adrian Ward, Andrew R. Baker
Abstract: The present invention relates to deformable supports that provide a compressive force on a human or animal limb or body and can self-determine that force and monitor it. The invention further relates to garments comprising those supports and an associated system for self-determination, monitoring and communicating the compressive force.