Patent ID: 8298968
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: D03D,D10B,H01H,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A fabric having a woven construction, including in its woven construction a plurality of spaced first elongated electrically conductive filaments or fibres and a plurality of spaced second elongated electrically conductive filaments or fibres, said first elongated electrically conductive filaments or fibres being crossed by said second elongated electrically conductive filaments or fibres at a plurality of crossover points, wherein said plurality of crossover points consists of at least one instance of a crossover point at which the first and second electrically conductive filaments or fibres are permanently biased apart and at least one instance of a crossover point at which said corresponding first and second electrical conductors are permanently physically connected together, wherein said permanently connected crossover points and said permanently biased apart crossover points bring into being at least one conductive path within said fabric that is composed of two or more contiguous segments of two or more electrically conductive filaments or fibres; and wherein either: (a) the conductive path is arranged in series along a spiral path; or (b) the fabric includes a parallel structure comprised of a multitude of parallel sub-paths, the conductive path being defined by comb shapes conductively isolated from each other, with the fingers of the combs being interlaced.