Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Writing to apparel by flexing piezoelectric generator
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Application No.: US18144401Application Date: 2023-05-08
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Publication No.: US12022914B2Publication Date: 2024-07-02
- Inventor: Keith A. Folske , Vikram Malhotra , Holli Pheil , Summer L. Schneider
- Applicant: NIKE, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US OR Beaverton
- Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OR Beaverton
- Agency: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: G08B21/00
- IPC: G08B21/00 ; A43B3/38 ; A43B5/00 ; A43D999/00 ; G01C22/00 ; G08B5/22 ; H02N2/18 ; H10N30/30

Abstract:
A wearable article, a system, and methods include a structural material configured to enable the wearable article to the worn on a body, a piezoelectric generator, positioned with respect to the structural material in a configuration to be flexed to output a voltage, a data translator, coupled to the piezoelectric generator, configured to output electronic data based on the voltage, and an electronic data storage, coupled to the data translator, configured to store the electronic data from the data translator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230284729A1 WRITING TO APPAREL BY FLEXING PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATOR Public/Granted day:2023-09-14
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