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Wearable and portable smart actuation device for DVT risk mitigation: deep vein thrombosis prevention device (DVT-PD)
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Executive Statement: A wearable device designed to prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) by sensing movements and automatically adjusting compression in the lower extremities. Description: The DVT-PD is an innovative wearable technology aimed at preventing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). It features graduated compression...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Kapil Dandekar
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Category(s): Electronics, Textiles
Wireless Energy Harvesting and Storage
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Energy storing and harvesting textiles are currently being developed at Drexel University. Antennas are tuned to harvest or scavenge energy at 2.4 GHz from the WiFi frequency band. The antenna is fully knitted from conductive yarns on industrial knitting machines. The antenna is connected to a small circuit that...
Published: 2/20/2025   |   Inventor(s): Genevieve Dion, Kapil Dandekar, Yury Gogotsi, Kristy Jost
Keywords(s): Antenna
Category(s): Advanced Materials & Chemicals, Textiles, Electrical Engineering
Usage of the yarns/knots to create wireless devices (e.g., RFID devices) and other circuit components
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARY Drexel’s engineers, designers and clinicians have created the smart fabric Bellyband – a fabric-based, wireless biometric system for monitoring uterine contractions and fetal heartbeat during pregnancy. Bellyband is designed to replace currently used bulky fetal and contractions monitors that connect to stationary...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Genevieve Dion, Adam Fontecchio, Timothy Kurzweg, Kapil Dandekar, Damiano Patron, Owen Montgomery
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Category(s): Textiles, Medical Devices, Diagnostics & Biosensors, Electronics
Two-Wire Knitted Capacitive Touch Sensor
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Previous designs of fabric-based touch sensors employ a large number of sensing electrodes to form a dense XY grid, which is impractical for many situations and increases the complexity and cost of all such sensors. This is because such sensor requires a correspondingly large number of connectors to connect each...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Genevieve Dion, Youngmoo Kim, Richard Vallett, Ryan Young, Robert Lehrich, Christina Kara
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Category(s): Electrical Engineering, Textiles, Electronics
Direct integration of individually controlled pixels into a knitted fabric matrix to produce a dynamic textile display
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY A flexible and scalable emissive fabric display with individually controllable pixels disposed within a fabric matrix. The pixels may include areas where electroluminescent thread contact conductive threads, and take the form of either individual stitches, or contact points between perpendicularly inlayed conductive...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Adam Fontecchio, Alyssa Bellingham Martin
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Category(s): Electrical Engineering, Textiles, Electronics
Wearable, Wireless, Battery-Free Heart Rate and Respiration Monitor
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Drexel’s electrical engineers have developed a wearable, wireless and battery-free continuous health monitor that can be used in a wide range of applications. The core of the monitor is an off-the-shelf RFID tag connected to a proprietary circuit. The circuit registers electric signals of the body and converts...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Timothy Kurzweg, Shrenik Vora
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Category(s): Textiles, Medical Devices, Diagnostics & Biosensors
Wearable devices, wearable robotic devices, gloves, and systems, methods, and computer program products interacting with the same
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Wearable exoskeletal technology remains a challenging task despite advances in sensing, actuation, and fabrication techniques. It can be used in the military for strength augmentation, the medical field for rehabilitation, and commercially for gaming and human computer interaction. The hand provides a unique platform...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Genevieve Dion, Michael Koerner, Andrew Cohen, Eric Wait, Mark Winter
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Category(s): Textiles, Medical Devices, Diagnostics & Biosensors, Computing, AI, Software, Cybersecurity & Analytics
Articulating devices
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARY One aspect of the invention provides an articulating device including: an inflatable elastic layer and a textile shell surrounding or impregnated within at least a portion of the inflatable elastic layer. The textile shell includes at least two regions having different material properties or knit patterns. The textile...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Genevieve Dion, Richard Primerano
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Category(s): Textiles, Medical Devices, Diagnostics & Biosensors, Computing, AI, Software, Cybersecurity & Analytics