"Smart Clothing" New Cloth Can Measure Heartbeat Frequency And Other Physical Conditions.

Recently, Japan

Toyo textile company announced the development of a suitable "

The new fabric.

Put on "smart clothing", you can measure the number of heartbeats and other physical conditions.

The new material is thin film and uses conductive materials and resins.

Cloth is lighter and more elastic.

Smart clothing, which uses new fabrics, will be used in sports and will be available in 2017.

The new fabric was named "COCOMI (Xin Mei)".

In addition to sports, smart clothing will also be used in the field of sick clothing and construction workers' clothing and so on.

Toyo modified the conductive material of electronic components, plus resin to make film.

The thickness is about 0.3 millimeters, which is only about 1/10 of the same fabric that other companies have already put into use.

The elasticity is 2 times that of the existing cloth.

It can also freely arrange the cloth and improve the design of clothing.

Because the new material is made of electronic components, it can detect even more subtle current compared with the existing fabric.

In addition to heartbeat times, it is assumed that ECG and breathing times can be measured.

In intelligence

In terms of cloth, by the end of 2014, Japan

Brand Goldwin has launched an intelligent sportswear, using the fabric "hitoe" developed jointly by Dongli and NTT.

Japanese textile enterprises, Kansai and Tianjin University are also developing a kind of carbon fiber cloth that can perceive human activities and accelerate the commercialization.

Among them, the basic technology of hitoe is the conductive polymer "PEDOT-PSS" that NTT has been developing before.

PEDOT-PSS is not only soft, hydrophilic and certain strength, but also has biocompatibility. Therefore, even if it is close to the skin, it will not feel uncomfortable.

On the other hand, because of its hydrophilicity, it is easy to fall off after washing.

Nanofibers in Dongli solve this problem: immerse PEDOT-PSS in the fabric made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fiber (PET nanofiber) with a diameter of only 700nm.

As a result, PEDOTPSS remained in the fiber and the washing resistance was improved.

It is said that the diameter of the PET fiber used in ordinary clothes is about 15 m, so that PEDOT-PSS stays on the surface of the fiber, so it is not resistant to washing.

In addition, through the use of PET nanofibers, the contact area between the fabric and the skin is larger than that of ordinary fibers, so that reliable monitoring results can be obtained.