Designing wearable textile structures with embeded conductive yarns and testing their heating properties

Author

Poboroniuc, Marian-Silviu ; Curteza, Antonela ; Cretu, Viorica ; Macovei, Laura

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., “Gheorghe Asachi” Tech. Univ. of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

778

Lastpage

783

Abstract

This paper deals with the idea of manufacturing and testing heating textile structures aiming to be integrated within wearable human clothes. The main idea was to design the electrical resistance of the embedded yarn in such a way that it can be operated with a low voltage battery in order to obtain a wearable system. A laboratory test bench that includes an infrared thermographic camera has been configured and the testing results are presented.

Keywords

benchmark testing; conducting materials; design engineering; infrared imaging; intelligent materials; textiles; yarn; bench testing; design; embedded conductive yarns; heating properties; infrared thermographic camera; wearable human clothes; wearable textile structures; Biomedical monitoring; Heating; Temperature distribution; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Yarn; conductive knitted fabric; conductive yarns testing; smart textile; wearable electronics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2014 International Conference and Exposition on

Conference_Location

Iasi

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEPE.2014.6970016

Filename

6970016