Abstract: A sensor for chemical species or biological species or radiation presenting to test fluid a polymer composition comprises polymer and conductive filler metal, alloy or reduced metal oxide and having a first level of electrical conductance when quiescent and being convertible to a second level of conductance by change of stress applied by stretching or compression or electric field, in which the polymer composition is characterized by at least one of the features in the form of particles at least 90% w/w held on a 100 mesh sieve; and/or comprising a permeable body extending across a channel of fluid flow; and/or affording in-and-out diffusion of test fluid and/or mechanically coupled to a workpiece of polymer swellable by a constituent of test fluid.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 30, 2002
Date of Patent:
March 6, 2007
Assignee:
Peratech Ltd.
Inventors:
David Lussey, David Bloor, Paul Jonathan Laughlin, Philip James Walton Hands
Abstract: An electronic resistor user interface comprises flexible conductive materials and a flexible variably resistive element capable of exhibiting a change in electrical resistance on mechanical deformation and is characterised by textile-form electrodes (10,12), a textile form variably resistive element (14) and textile-form members (16) connective to external circuitry.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 20, 2006
Publication date:
November 16, 2006
Applicants:
Peratech Ltd., Canesis Network Ltd., Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand
Inventors:
David Lussey, Dianne Jones, Steven Leftly