Patent ID: 7109933

Claim:
A wearable jacket having a data communication function, comprising: a 2D-DST substrate shaped to cover a body of a subject person, the 2D-DST substrate including: a first conductive sheet; a second conductive sheet; and a plurality of communication modules, the first conductive sheet and the second conductive sheet being overlapped, the plurality of communication modules being distributed between the first conductive sheet and the second conductive sheet, the plurality of communication modules being capable of communicating with adjacently arranged ones of the plurality of communication modules and relaying signals making use of at least one of conductive sheets, at least one communication module of the plurality of communication modules having a communicating system capable of communicating with an external device by at least one of receiving and transmitting a spatially propagating signal, one of the first and second conductive sheets on the external device side being formed with an area that allows the spatially propagating signal to pass through at a position corresponding to a location of a communication module having the communicating system.